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), Barbican Centre (London), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark), and CCCB (Barcelona). Solo exhibitions include arebyte Gallery (London), Galerie Charlot (Paris), and Aksioma (Ljubljana). Upcoming exhibitions include Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt), Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona), Onassis ONX (New York), Museo Franz Mayer (Mexico City), and NeMe (Cyprus).

Grosser’s artworks have been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wired, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. The Guardian (UK) declared that “when the history of the first decades of this century comes to be written, there will be few more telling artworks” than Grosser’s film ORDER OF MAGNITUDE—“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, Investigative Aesthetics, and Christiane Paul’s 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 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, and an Artist’s Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council. He is a Faculty Associate (and former Fellow) at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.