Jonathan W. Y. Gray (@jwyg) explores the roles of digital data, methods and infrastructures in shaping how we know and live together. Reader in Critical Infrastructure Studies at King's College London. Author of Public Data Cultures (Polity, 2025).
I’m part of a group organising this year’s HTML Day 2026 in London , which will take place at SET Social, Peckham , Saturday 8th August, 2-8pm. You can find out more and sign up here . This year’s edition is being co-organised by artist collective Cranberry Lemonade , London Permacomputing Club , Kitty Ess (who made this year’s website ), Kat Macdonald , the Centre for Digital Culture and others.…
We recently organised a session on critical AI practices as part of the conference Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital . It was a hot day, but luckily the rooms were well ventilated. 🪭 Some brief notes on the session to share with those that wanted to join but couldn’t make it… Liliana Bounegru started by situating the session in relation to previous…
Last week I was part of the Digital Methods Summer School 2026 at the University of Amsterdam. This year’s theme was “ visual AI for internet research: on and beyond slop ”. I was part of a project on AI historiographies, exploring how to document and archive the various material histories, software ecosystems and use cultures of AI agents and services. The project team included Liliana Bounegru ,…
Following a trip to South Korea as part of the K-platforms project , we recently organised an evening on growing feminist technocultures with Youjin Jeon from Woman Open Tech Lab in Seoul. The event circulated widely and sold out quickly. So we were a little apprehensive about how things would go, especially as it was during a heat wave. We arranged all the fans we could find into an improvised…
wilding will be screened as part of can we start again? , a computational arts festival organised by the Phreaking Collective , 8-12th July 2026. The festival follows the Does Cloud Compute (ever) Precipitate? programme that I joined several events for earlier this year. can we start again? includes sessions on encrypted embroidery, ringtone-making, world-building, protocol art, live coding,…
We have set up a new partnership with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) to develop research collaborations and exchanges, with an initial focus on digital methods, digital culture and science and technology in society. 🎊✨ This grew out of the K-Platforms project with Liliana Bounegru (King’s College London), Chamee Yang (Seoul National University) and June Jeon (KAIST).…
After having been in touch online for many years, it felt like a special occasion to be able to finally meet my namesake Jonathan W. Gray IRL in London. Jonathan W. Gray is another of the research Jonathans (there are many of us ), based at City University of New York (CUNY) and author of Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination: Innocence by Association . He was in London to give a talk on…
I was recently invited to give a keynote on Public Data Cultures at a research symposium on Digital Sovereignty Across Disciplines at the Sussex Humanities Lab , University of Sussex. From the event blurb: Digital sovereignty is one of the most important topics affecting both our collective research practices and individual dignity. The capacity for individuals, organisations, and nations to…
On Saturday 27th June 2026 there will be CUAK 2026 - a “Creativity Unconference At King’s”, organised by Mike Cook and supported by the Centre for Digital Culture that I codirect with Zeena . Further details can be found here and copied below. 🦆 CUAK 2026 🦆 (Creativity Unconference At King’s) A friendly unconference for London’s digital creativity communities 27th June 2026, Bush House, London…
Look forward to joining this meme-making workshop on “Where do chatbots live?” , organised by Natalia Stanusch and the Slow AI project in Amsterdam on 6th July. Further details are copied below. ✨ Call for Participation: Where do chatbots live? Analog meme-making workshop July 6, 2026 at 13:00 – 16.00h The Hmm, NDSM-plein 125 (NDSM Wharf) Amsterdam, The Netherlands https://tinyurl.com/4tdmnrjj…