Finnish media theorist and writer Jussi Parikka is a Professor of Technological Culture at the University of Southampton’s Winchester School of Art. He is also Visiting Professor at FAMU, in Prague, where he directs the project Operational Images and Visual Culture (2019-2023, funded by the Czech Science Foundation). He is the author of several books on digital culture and media archaeology, environmental humanities, and cultural theory, including Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses (2nd ed. 2016), Insect Media (2010), A Geology of Media (2015) as well as What is Media Archaeology? (2012, translated into Turkish in 2017 as Medya Arkeolojisi Nedir?). Recently he published the co-edited volume Photography Off the Scale (2021, with Tomas Dvorak) and in Autumn 2021 his co-authored book (with Lori Emerson and Darren Wershler) The Lab Book is out. Blog/homepage: http://jussiparikka.net .