Benjamin Bratton is Professor of Visual Arts and Director of the Center for Design and Geopolitics at the University of California, San Diego, Program Director of the Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow and Professor of Digital Design at the European Graduate School and Visiting Faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Bratton’s research deals with computational media and infrastructure, design research management and methodologies, classical and contemporary sociological theory, architecture and urban design issues, and the politics of synthetic ecologies and biologies.
Bratton completed his doctoral studies in the sociology of technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.