The Anti Menagerie: Fictions for Interrogating the Supremacy of World-shaping Violence

Helen V. Pritchard is an artist-designer and geographer whose work considers the impacts of computation and digital media on social and environmental justice. Their research addresses how practices configure the possibilities for life — or who gets to have a life — in intimate and significant ways. As a practitioner they work together with companions to make propositions and designs for environmental media and computing otherwise, developing methods to uphold a politics of queer survival and practice. They are currently working on the book project “Animal Hackers and Critter Compilers”; and together with Cassandra Troyan a research project across their institutions entitled, “Multispecies Methods for Solidarity Stories” which seeks to use transdisciplinary methods as part of a virtual lab, to allow writers, scholars, artists, designers, and theorists to build collective practices. Helen is an Associate Professor of Queer Feminist Technoscience & Digital Design at i-DAT, University of Plymouth and a research fellow at Goldsmiths University of London. They are the co-editor of Data Browser 06: Executing Practices, published by Open Humanities Press (2018) and Science, Technology and Human Values: Sensors and Sensing Practices (2019).