Her practice incorporates critical writing, performative lectures, and moving image to develop novel ways of understanding life within technological systems. She is the author of Girlstack (2023-) and Small Gods (2020).

Her practice develops novel ways of understanding life within technological systems, unfolding in multi-year cycles through critical writing, performative lectures, and moving image.

Past major projects include Girlstack (2023-25), an investigation into the planetary impact of inhuman ‘girl’ intelligence; Alley to Heaven (2021-23), a trilogy of videos and performances on data annotators and edge computing in the contested South China Sea; and Small Gods (2017-20), a book of departures in drone narratives.

Her work has been featured in Wired, Frieze, Dazed, Vogue, Spike, The Face, MIT Journal, and more.

Alex has collaborated with arts institutions including Tate Britain, Somerset House Studios, Singapore Art Museum, Power Station of Art Shanghai, Julia Stoschek Collection, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Fondation Pernod-Ricard, and Rennie Museum. In 2025, she was a mentor at Medialab Matadero and a research fellow at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures. She teaches theory for MA Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins, and studied Critical Writing at the Royal College of Art.

She is from Manila, where she is in leadership of SYM.

Alex’s work has been covered by numerous outlets, notably New Models, Disintegrator, Dazed, Spike, Bomb, 032c, The Face, MIT Technology Review,and the Institute of Network Cultures.

She is honoured to inform projects including Maya B. Kronic & Amy Ireland’s Cute Accelerationism, Arvida Byström’s Biblically Accurate Babe, Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich’s Onset, Elizabeth Lee’s Tropic Temper and Ester Frieder’s Everyone Is A Girl.

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