Rachel Falconer

Rachel Falconer is a Lecturer in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and serves as Head of the Digital Arts Computing BSc program. She is also the Goldsmiths Digital Project Manager. Her work bridges digital art curation, feminist technoscience, and critical engagement with emergent technologies. Falconer holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Industrial Design and Multimedia Communications from UCL/Politecnico di Milano.

Her research focuses on networked curatorial strategies, human-computer interaction, and decentralized technologies. She has curated exhibitions at institutions like Tate, Barbican, and V&A, and her writing appears in Frieze, British Journal of Photography, and The Guardian. Falconer supervises PhD students in computational arts and digital arts computing, including primary supervision of Yajuan Han.

Her articles explore themes like distributed knowledge production and the societal implications of AI. She frequently speaks at events such as EVA London and the Institute of Network Cultures, advocating for critical perspectives on technology's role in culture and society.