Ben Grosser investigates how the designs of platform interfaces—from social media to AI chatbots—shape human behavior, desire, and culture. Through tactics such as software recomposition, interface reduction, and radical reimagination, his artworks expose software’s hidden politics and propose alternatives that restore user agency.

From browser extensions and video supercuts to networked installations and alternative platforms, his works have been exhibited at venues such as Centre Pompidou (Paris), Somerset House (London), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Eyebeam (New York), SXSW (Austin), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (outside Copenhagen), and the Japan Media Arts Festival (Tokyo). Solo exhibitions include arebyte Gallery (London), Galerie Charlot (Paris), and Aksioma (Ljubljana). Upcoming exhibitions include Le Cube Garges (outside Paris), Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Madrid), and NeMe (Cyprus).

Grosser’s artworks have been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wired, The Atlantic, Le Monde, and Der Spiegel. The Guardian called his film ORDER OF MAGNITUDE a definitive artwork of the 21st century, “a mesmerising monologue, the story of our times.” RTÉ (Ireland) dubbed Grosser an “antipreneur,” and Slate (US) described his work as “creative civil disobedience in the digital age.”

His scholarly writing appears in journals such as Computational Culture, Electronic Book Review, and Big Data and Society. Grosser’s projects are regularly cited in books investigating the cultural effects of technology, including The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, The Metainterface, and Investigative Aesthetics, as well as volumes centered on media art practice such as Electronic Literature and Digital Art.

Grosser’s recognitions include First Prize in VIDA 16, a Net Art Grant from Rhizome, the Expanded Media Award for Network Culture from the Stuttgarter Filmwinter, an Artist’s Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council, and a Fellowship with Harvard University’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. He is currently Professor of New Media at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA), and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.