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 incorporates critical writing, performative lectures, and moving image, with a focus on how emerging technologies warp social reality and vice-versa.

Her ongoing Girlstack project (2023-) gathers extreme and mundane evidence of inhuman ‘girl’ intelligence and its secret planetary impact, in the theoretical vein of xenofeminism, cyberfeminism, pharmacopornographic capitalism, and accelerationism. Variations on the Girlstack have been presented at transmediale, Aksioma, 3HD, London College of Fashion, and elsewhere. Girlstack research and development is supported by the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures at Die Angewandte.

Past major projects include Alley to Heaven (2021-23), a trilogy of video-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 Singapore Art Museum, Power Station of Art Shanghai, Julia Stoschek Collection, Fondation Pernod-Ricard, Rennie Museum, and Nationalgalerie Berlin. She teaches narrative theory for MA Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins, and studied Critical Writing at the Royal College of Art.

Alex 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 New Models, Disintegrator, Dazed [+], Spike [+], Bomb, 032c, The Face, The Margins, WIP, MIT Technology Review, Networked Worlds, 34, and Institute of Network Cultures, and informed projects including Cute Accelerationism 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.”

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