Amy Alexander is an artist and professor who has been making computationally-based art projects since the mid-1990s and writing about the role of algorithms in culture since the early 2000s. Over the years, Amy has worked in net art, software art, computational installation, audiovisual performance, film, video, music, and information technology. Her research and practice focus on how contemporary media—from performative cinema to social media—shifts alongside cultural and technological change. She has a particular interest in the cultural impact of algorithmic bias and subjectivity, and the potential for individual responses. Her recent work engages with computer vision, machine learning, and generative AI, both critically and as artistic media.
Amy’s projects have been exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum, Prix Ars Electronica, Transmediale, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, Zero1, the New Museum, NIME, the International Conference on Live Coding, and the International Conference on Live Interfaces, as well as club performances including Sonar (Barcelona), First Avenue (Minneapolis), and Melkweg (Amsterdam). She has performed on the streets of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, Zürich, and Aberdeen, Scotland. Her work has been discussed in publications including Wired, The New York Times, Slashdot, Ecrans, Leonardo, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post.
Amy—who has also worked under the names Cue P. Doll and VJ Übergeek—has been active since the early days of computationally-driven internet art, dating back to 1996. In addition to her art projects, she co-founded and moderated Runme.org, a major international software art repository. She was an early member of the TOPLAP live coding collective and has been active in algorithmic and media art curation—serving as a juror for festivals and a peer reviewer for academic conferences and journals.
Amy’s work has been influenced by her background in musical performance. In addition to her own audiovisual performances, she has published essays and book chapters on audiovisual performance history. She has a particular research interest in early 20th-century audiovisual performance artist and inventor Mary Hallock-Greenewalt, and she operates an online archive and Facebook page highlighting lesser-known materials by and about Hallock-Greenewalt.
Amy holds a Master of Fine Arts in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Rowan University of New Jersey.