Lilly Markaki                                                           

Lilly Markaki, PhD, is a writer, curator and lecturer, whose areas of study and practice include Art, Aesthetics and Visual Culture, Critical Theory, Media Studies, Postcolonial Theory and Black Studies. Adopting an interdisciplinary, transversal theoretical approach, their research investigates material and speculative aesthetic practices, placing particular emphasis on questions that relate to art’s world-making (and unwordling) potentialities. They hold a PhD in Media Arts from Royal Holloway, University of London, and an MLitt and BA (Hons) in Art History from the University of Glasgow.

Over the past few years, they have written for a number of publications, including ArtReview, Elephant Magazine, Spike Magazine, 3:AM Magazine, and the LSE Review of Books. They have contributed papers to several international conferences and realised a series of public research programmes—including ‘Dark Advances: Affect Aliens & Revolutionary Despair’ (2022), ‘EVERYWHERE IT IS MACHINES’ (2021), and ‘Love Spells & Rituals for Another World’ (2020), which now lives on as a publication.

Among other things, they currently work as an Associate Lecturer in Media Studies at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, and as Researcher and Programme Curator for DEMO Moving Image Experimental Politics. They also edit Deleuzine: A Zine For Nobodies Without Organs and sustain an experimental radio practice at Stegi Radio.