Her practice incorporates critical writing, performative lectures, and moving image to focus on how emerging technologies warp social reality and vice-versa. She is the author of Girlstack (2023-) and Small Gods (2020).

Her practice develops novel ways to understand how we live with technology, 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 Technology Review, and more.

Alex collaborates 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. 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, a think-tank for political narrative in Southeast Asia.

Alex’s work has been covered by numerous outlets, notably New Models, Disintegrator, Dazed [1][2][3][4], Spike [1][2][3], Bomb, 032c, The Face, MIT Technology Review, and the Institute of Network Cultures, and informed projects including Cute Accelerationism, Biblically Accurate Babe, Onset, and Everyone Is A Girl.

Narrative and subjectivity in the post-platform age — assessing the unbreakable bonds between Girls & Gore; pleasure & violence; delusion & reality; and human & machine to find out “what is becoming of us.”

Drawing from xenofeminism, accelerationism, and theories of planetary computation, my work reveals how technological systems produce power as much through seduction and attraction as command and control, creating subjects that exceed conventional understanding.

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