Orit Halpern

Orit Halpern is an assistant professor in History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. She is also an affiliate in the new Design MA program at Parsons School of Design. Her research is on histories of digital media, cybernetics, art and design. Her current book project (forthcoming through Duke Press) is titled Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 and is a genealogy of our contemporary concerns with “big data”, visualization, and interactivity. Her published works and multi-media projects appear (or are forthcoming) in C-theory, Configurations, Post-Modern Culture, Public Culture, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, and The Journal of Visual Culture and at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. She completed her Ph.D. in History of Science at Harvard University in the History of Science (2006) and received a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University (2007-08). She is currently a fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU as part of the Poiesis Fellowship, and has also been a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. You can find out more at orithalpern.net.