Olga Goriunova is a cultural theorist working across technology, philosophy, and aesthetics, and Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her latest book, Ideal Subjects. The Abstract People of AI (2025), explores how artificial intelligence abstracts people into new kinds of subjects. Questions of subjectivation in relation to art and technology have been central to her work. Her previous book, Bleak Joys. Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility (co-authored, 2019), explores aesthetics, ethics, and ecology in times of multiple crises. This work traces connections between large-scale systems such as ecologies, technical infrastructures, and mechanisms of calculation, as well as processes of subjectivation. Her first book, Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (2012), conceptualises aesthetic and political engagements with technology at the dawn of the World Wide Web, proposing the concepts of organisational aesthetics and art platforms to understand collective art practices and movements of the 1990s and early 2000s.