Ragnhild Solberg

Ragnhild Solberg is a Guest Lecturer at the Department of Art and Media Studies at NTNU. Her research focuses on intersections of artificial intelligence, digital culture, and posthumanism, particularly in games, visual media, and surveillance studies. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of Bergen (UiB) and has contributed to the ERC-funded 'Machine Vision in Everyday Life' project led by Prof. Jill Walker Rettberg.

Education: Completed her doctoral dissertation titled 'Playing posthumanism: A study of machine vision and tensions of human-machine relations in digital games' at UiB (2023).

Research Interests: Explores representations of gender, AI, and power dynamics in digital games; human-machine relationships through machine vision technologies; and posthumanist frameworks in visual culture. Her work bridges game studies, digital humanities, and surveillance theory.

Publications: Over 9 peer-reviewed articles and reports since 2019, focusing on machine vision in art/games, agency in AI systems, and cyborg identities. Recent works include analysis of surveillance mechanisms in digital games and exhibitions addressing societal impacts of algorithmic technologies.

Teaching: Instructs courses such as HFO1001 (Digital Changes), MV2012 (The Image in Society), and supervises bachelor's theses in media studies at NTNU.

Outreach: Created video abstracts for academic papers and contributed to public exhibitions like 'Maskinsyn: Ditt digitale liv' exploring digital surveillance ethics.