jonathan w. y. gray

Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p... It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜

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much look forward to seeing @ruha9.bsky.social in London on Friday 13th November, in conversation with Tanisha Spratt and Nkasi Stoll ✨ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-joy-...

join us for the launch of a new report on "Automated Discrimination: Unpacking the Digital Hostile Environment" from @openrightsgroup.org @fabiochiusi.bsky.social with foreword by @cearadau.bsky.social, 28th Oct, 5.30pm: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/autom...

✨ job ✨ - @medialab-scpo.bsky.social hiring an engineer to support a project developing browser extensions for researching platforms such as Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook. deadline 26th October. please share with those who might be interested! publicdatalab.org/2026/10/20/j...

Come vibe chase with us ✨🎧 open call for Platforms & Society special theme on ambient amplification, sonic social media, affective infrastructures, vibe chasing, slopification & more. Edited by Elena Pilipets & Marloes Geboers. Deadline: 30 Nov. More at: publicdatalab.org/2026/10/16/c... #AoIR2026

sad to be missing friends and colleagues at #AoIR2026 in Mexico this year 😭 nice to follow along here 👀 for those interested in critical data practices I'm told that @politybooks.bsky.social have copies of Public Data Cultures there (discount code below) 📖✨🌌 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...

yaaay reply-all party for the already-departed AoIR list bot 🎊

🎊 Welcome to Dr Chamee Yang, our new Visiting Researcher from Seoul National University! @chamee22.bsky.social is joining us through the K-platforms project — and we’re delighted to have her in the department! Meet Chamee and find out more about her research 👇 kingsdh.net/2026/10/08/chamee-yang/

Excited to share that I will give my first public talk on the book! Please join if you'd like to hear me talk about it! 🍾✨ My special thanks to @jwyg.bsky.social and @lboungr.bsky.social for organizing this, and to @kingsdh.bsky.social and the Centre for Digital Culture for sponsoring the event.🙏

Tomorrow I get to show the WIP of a short film I've been working on about decolonising the web @ The Photographer's Gallery!! If you're in London, come down! 🥳

how can features of the internet be artistically reworked for critical inquiry into digital culture? looking forward to teaching internet poetics this autumn.. 🍂🍵✂️🌌🌕✨💜 jonathangray.org/2026/09/14/i...

look forward to joining Olia Lialina and Winnie Soon for a discussion on “Netstalgia Not Acceptable” at The Photographers’ Gallery on 17th Sep 💾🌌✨ jonathangray.org/2026/09/07/i... with @mmarangoni.bsky.social @lolaodelola.bsky.social @luciarebolino.bsky.social @smmrcr.bsky.social & more

Network Portraits – solo show by Olia Lialina panke.gallery, 10 September – 3 October 2026 panke.gallery/exhibition/n... ➠ opening: Thursday, 10 September 2026 at 19.00 Olia Lialina will be present and will introduce her works. Curated by Noemi Garay & Sakrowski. 🌐 Welcome!

looking forward to “Who Makes Public Data? Communities, Cultures, and the State” organised by Aapti Institute on Wednesday 9th September 2026 - with @lboungr.bsky.social @kumarsambhav.bsky.social Pallab Deb & more: jonathangray.org/2026/09/04/w...

e2e.html.energy ~ an ephemeral social network for HTML Day that participants can share links and photos on. It's a bit like GeoCities but for html day cities :). This is our first year of trying something like. Curious if it is useful!

notes from an evening on growing feminist technocultures 페미니스트 테크노문화 키우기 with Woman Open Tech Lab (Seoul): jonathangray.org/2026/07/08/n... with @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social @lboungr.bsky.social @jymak.bsky.social @angelaytchan.net @aleesteele.bsky.social London Permacomputing Club & many more! ✨

✨HTML day 2026 in London✨ - 2-8pm, Saturday 8th August🌌🌕 londonhtmlday.neocities.org with Cranberry Lemonade, London Permacomputing Club, @otherkat.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social & more - as part of @htmlenergy.bsky.social's HTML day - 2026.html.energy 💚 #html #london

CTM 2027 »process...ing« 22–31 January, 2027 Under the title »process...ing«, the 2027 edition of our sister festival CTM shifts its attention to what process means in its different iterations. Key dates, open calls, and further information on their website 📣 ▶︎ www.ctm-festival.de/festival-202...

The open calls for our 2027 residencies are now online! 🔔 This year’s open calls seeks proposals offering alternatives to how we understand, respond to, and shape the technological conditions we inhabit. ▶︎ transmediale.de/en/news/open...

🚨 Excellent opportunity for grassroot organisations: The €2 million Building Narrative Power funding and learning programme offers grants of up to €150,000 to develop and test narrative strategies around three areas: data centres, jobs and young people’s lives europeanaifund.org/newspublicat...

how to listen to a world on fire? some notes, pictures and links from burning silence at @spore--initiative.bsky.social Berlin 🔥🌌✨ jonathangray.org/2026/04/29/b... enjoyed panel with Garance Maurer + listening session on regathering wildfires. thanks to all organising and all who came!

How do we engage with data as a cultural material, medium of participation and site of politics? Missing #LondonDataWeek already? Don't worry, you didn't miss 30% off Jonathan W. Y. Gray's 'Public Data Cultures'. Code PDC30 - valid until 31/07 politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @jwyg.bsky.social

a wonderful channel from @jwyg.bsky.social: www.are.na/jonathan-gra...

for those in london, so many good things at asymmetry's pubfest this weekend: www.asymmetryart.org/public-progr... look forward to catching Kyungyong Lim from mediabus (Seoul) on "publishing as method". 📖🌌 #london #seoul

A new blog post by @jwyg.bsky.social shares more details about the new partnership between King’s College London and Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, developing research collaborations in digital methods, digital culture, and science & technology. jonathangray.org/2026/06/30/k...

how to critically and creatively engage with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of politics? what can we learn from critical approaches to public data practices? @politybooks.bsky.social are giving a 30% discount on public data cultures for #LondonDataWeek. ✨📗🌌🌱 #LDW26

With some of our work in progress!

yaay - notes from amsterdam on AI historiographies, chatbot meme-making & more 🪭🍵🌌💜✨ jonathangray.org/2026/07/09/a... with @digitalmethods.net @lboungr.bsky.social @silvertje.bsky.social @ktmac.bsky.social @fvandervlist.bsky.social @esthrr.bsky.social @framerframed.nl @nataliastanusch.bsky.social

earth observation observation 🌍🛰️👀 @okfn.bsky.social blog.okfn.org/skycommons-o...

how else might the web be social? really enjoying this @sfpc.study session on building benches for the web with @spencer.place & @munusshih.bsky.social! ✨🪭🪑🌌💜 sfpc.study/sessions/sum...

love being part of this @sfpc.study session on the browser as game engine with @everest.bsky.social 💻🫧🌌🌕✨

aahh! a special moment to finally meet my namesake Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app in London last week! ✨💜🌌 (hatching some plans...) jonathangray.org/2026/06/26/m...

🔗 The MoU grew out of exchanges between @kingsdh.bsky.social, @kings-dfi.bsky.social's @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social and the School of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences at KAIST.

🤝 King's College London and Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop new international research collaborations with an initial focus on digital research methods, digital culture and science and technology in society.

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🎉 Global Digital Cultures Research Social tomorrow evening 📅 Wed 24 June 📍 18:00 – The Vault, Bush House South (-1) Organised by J. Emeka Nwankwo (KCL) A space for conversations on Global South, race, and Indigenous digital research. All welcome! #DHToday2026 #DigitalConference2026

Do you make art and weird things with computers? Would you like to meet other people who do and talk to them about it? This June we're hosting a creativity unconference at King's - CUAK for short. Sat June 27th - Bush House - 9.30am-5.30pm Info and free tickets: www.possibilityspace.org/cuak/ 🦆

looking forward to #cuak2026 🦆 "unconference about being creative with computers", this Saturday 26th June 2026 in London - organised by @mtrc.bsky.social with support from @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social: jonathangray.org/2026/06/23/c...

Londoners, there is a webpage for you to see where your nearest "cool spaces" are when the extreme heat hits - places with water, air-conditioning & shade. Have a look and spread the word, especially to those who may need this but might not think to look for it: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

what are the prospects of critical AI practices? we explore on friday 26th june, convened with @lboungr.bsky.social @hetsalwel.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social @dntrcc.bsky.social @esthrr.bsky.social Daniela van Geenen, Tobias Blanke, Sabine Niederer & more! ✨ jonathangray.org/2026/06/19/c...

🗓️ 26 June, 17:00-19:00. Growing feminist technocultures: an evening with Woman Open Tech Lab Hear from Jeon Youjin & Woman Open Tech Lab on growing feminist technocultures. Co-hosted by @jwyg.bsky.social, @lboungr.bsky.social, Digital Investigations Lab & London Permacomputing Club ⬇️

🗓️ 23 June, 14:00-16:00. Digital Investigations as Counter-maps? Aesthetic, Epistemic, and Participatory Solidarities in OSINT Examine the aesthetic, epistemic, and participatory dimensions of open-source investigations in this informal space for discussion and knowledge-sharing ⬇️

🗓️ 16 June, 16:00-18:00. Investigation Walkthrough with Dabanga & Bellingcat Amgad Abdelgadir (Dabanga) & @sebkilli.bsky.social @bellingcat.com present their recent story concerning the online trend of TikTok videos of child soldiers in Sudan's civil war ⬇️

join us for an evening on on growing feminist technocultures with Woman Open Tech Lab (Seoul) in London, 5-7pm, Friday 26th June 2026. ✨ more details and registration here: tinyurl.com/feminist-tec...

NEXT WEEK ⏰️ Digital sovereignty is an urgent issue as historic alliances become unreliable. Join ORG's Exec Director @jim.killock.org.uk and @jwyg.bsky.social to explore the UK's dependency on US Big Tech and what has to change. 🗓️ Tue 16 June 🕙️ 10am-4pm 📍 Sussex Humanities Lab Register now ⬇️