Nevena Ivanova works at the intersection of philosophy, art and technology and holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Information Studies from the University of Tokyo (Japan). She has taught digital media aesthetics, cybernetics and technoetic arts in Hong Kong and Shanghai (China) and has published in the fields of media aesthetics, philosophy of technology, and critical software studies. She is the author of “(Re)Programming Life. Synthetic biology between industry and biohacking” (Sofia 2024). Ivanova is currently Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where she is working on a project on the aesthetics of artificial intelligence and a visiting professor at the University of Sofia and NATFA.