Yanni Alexander Loukissas is Founding Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Media Arts Center and Associate Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. His research is focused on helping creative people think critically about the social implications of information technologies.
His most recent book, All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society (MIT Press, 2019), is addressed to a growing audience of practitioners who want to work with unfamiliar sources both effectively and ethically. He is also the author of Co-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of The DigitalSTS Handbook (Princeton, 2019).
Before coming to Georgia Tech, he was a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where co-coordinated the Program in Art, Design and the Public Domain. He has also been a Media Arts Fellow at metaLAB, a research project of the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He has taught at Cornell, MIT, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Originally trained as an architect at Cornell, he subsequently attended MIT, where he received a Master of Science and a PhD in Design and Computation. He completed postdoctoral work at the MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society.
Curriculum Vitae (Updated Spring 2023)