Anaïs Nony 

Anaïs Nony is a philosopher working on contemporary art and the question of technology. She is Senior Researcher at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study where she leads the “AI and Life Matters” research stream, and Research Associate at the Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation in Paris.

She is the author of Performative Images. A Philosophy of Video Art Technology in France (Amsterdam University Press, 2023), co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Gilbert Simondon (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) and editorial board member of the peer-reviewed open access journal La Deleuziana. In 2021, she co-curated “Data Streams. Art, Algorithm and Artificial Intelligence” at the Glucksman Gallery in Ireland.

Dr. Nony studied theatre at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle in Paris and philosophy at the University of Minnesota where she wrote her doctoral thesis under the direction of French philosopher Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020). She received international research fellowships from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the University of the Western Cape and the South African Research Chair Initiatives in Social Change at the University of Fort Hare.

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