Elia Vargas

Elia Vargas is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences. They are an interdisciplinary artist and scholar working at the intersection of experimental media, digital culture, and feminist science studies, with a focus on ecological and technocultural practices.

• Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Cruz
• Co-founder of Living Room Light Exchange (SF Bay Area art/tech organization)
• Commissioned by Goethe Institute for a global technocultural exchange podcast

Research interests include posthumanist meaning-making, energy histories, environmental humanities, and speculative praxis approaches to media. Their work explores non-representational methods to challenge anthropocentric frameworks in nature-culture-technology entanglements.