Galit Ariel
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Galit Ariel is a scholar, technofuturist, author and creative, exploring the wild & imaginative side of bleeding-edge technologies. Through her experimental art/tech practice Galit challenges resemblances, gaps & glitches across digital, physical, and cognitive spaces. Her award-winning work spans across Mixed Reality installations, subversive animations and speculative digital interactions. Currently a research-creation PhD candidate at York University, her research focuses on the intersection between embodied technologies, culture and imagination. Galit is an OGS (Ontario Graduate Scholarship) recipient, a graduate research fellow in York’s Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology, and York’s Feminist Digital Methods Research Cluster. As a stream leader at the Feminist Digital Methods Research Cluster, Galit explores trans-feminist presence within digital spaces. The group’s 2023 research-creation project utilizes location-based AR to discuss femme digital appropriation, representation, and harassment – as Toronto pub- lic-facing walk-n-learn immersive activation. The project was features at the 2023 HASTAC conference and the 2023 Humanities Congress.
