Faculty

Fabiola Hanna is a new media artist, software theorist, and Assistant Professor of Emerging Media at the School of Media Studies at The New School. She is a hybrid theory/practitioner whose work engages the theory of digital media with a focus on software that interfaces with archives of memories of the past.

Fabiola holds a PhD in Film and Digital Media from UC Santa Cruz where she also completed an MFA in Digital Arts & New Media. She has several forthcoming publications on these topics including a chapter on how non-Western contexts can help rethink software studies. Her work has been published in Feminist Media Histories and Sounding Out. She is working towards a special issue on activist interactive documentary in the non-Western world. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, the New Children’s Museum in San Diego, the SubZero Festival in San Jose, the Digital Arts Research Center in Santa Cruz, and the MakerFaire in San Mateo.

She was 2018-2019 Data and Democracy fellow at The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. She is also leading the development of a core curriculum for coding literacies for all incoming students at UC Santa Cruz. In 2018, she co-organized a symposium on Digital Surveillance at UC Santa Cruz. In 2015, she was an inaugural Fellow at the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at The New School for Social Research. Previously, she was the educational program manager at the MIT FabLab in San Diego.

University of California Santa Cruz  | PhD, Film and Digital Media
        

University of California Santa Cruz  |  MFA, Digital Arts and New Media
                       

University of California San Diego   |  BA, Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts 


 “How Lebanon’s Contested Histories Can Inform Software Studies,” Rethinking Media Through the Middle East, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. (forthcoming)

“Designing a Genealogy of Feminist Media Studies.” in Feminist Media Histories, special
issue on “Genealogies,”edited by Miranda Banks, Ralina L. Joseph, Shelley Stamp & Michele White (Spring 2018)

“Share your story” – but who will listen? Sounding Out! Sound Studies Blog. August 22. https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/08/22/18160