@benevansjames
ben [at] benevansjames [dotcom]
I am a designer-researcher whose work explores ways that technologies construct knowledge and produce power, shaping the socio-economic landscapes within which they are embedded. As an interdisciplinary researcher, I draw upon technological cultures, media philosophy, and histories of design. Committed to practices that create public discourse and contribute to social change, my work moves between curatorial projects, documentary films, and written works.
I currently live in Canada on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ Nations (Vancouver, BC).
My Recent Work
In 2025 I co-curated transmediale festival in Berlin in partnership with Elise Misao Hunchuck. transmediale is an annual festival that brings together international artists, researchers, activists, and thinkers with the goal of developing new outlooks on our technological era through talks, workshops, installation artworks, and performances. Entitled (near) near but – far the 2025 edition explored how our everyday interactions with digital platforms exploit and reform our human need for connection, shaping our politics, our labour, and our relations with one another through the screens of our devices.
In 2012 I co-founded the artist run space South Kiosk in London. Adjunct to this ongoing curatorial role, I work as an exhibition architect, collaborating with artists and curators at institutions including Akademie der Künste in Berlin, ACCA in Melbourne, the Ford Foundation in New York, and Mass MoCA in Massachusetts.
My films have been exhibited at galleries including MoMA New York and the Design Museum London and screened at film festivals including Visions du Réel, Edinburgh International Film Festival, and Sheffield Doc Fest. Read my latest peer reviewed film paper, A Geography of the Screen, here.
I am a Deputy Course Director (remote) at The School of Communication at Falmouth University in Cornwall.
ben [at] benevansjames [dotcom]
I am a designer-researcher whose work explores ways that technologies construct knowledge and produce power, shaping the socio-economic landscapes within which they are embedded. As an interdisciplinary researcher, I draw upon technological cultures, media philosophy, and histories of design. Committed to practices that create public discourse and contribute to social change, my work moves between curatorial projects, documentary films, and written works.
I currently live in Canada on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ Nations (Vancouver, BC).
My Recent Work
In 2025 I co-curated transmediale festival in Berlin in partnership with Elise Misao Hunchuck. transmediale is an annual festival that brings together international artists, researchers, activists, and thinkers with the goal of developing new outlooks on our technological era through talks, workshops, installation artworks, and performances. Entitled (near) near but – far the 2025 edition explored how our everyday interactions with digital platforms exploit and reform our human need for connection, shaping our politics, our labour, and our relations with one another through the screens of our devices.
In 2012 I co-founded the artist run space South Kiosk in London. Adjunct to this ongoing curatorial role, I work as an exhibition architect, collaborating with artists and curators at institutions including Akademie der Künste in Berlin, ACCA in Melbourne, the Ford Foundation in New York, and Mass MoCA in Massachusetts.
My films have been exhibited at galleries including MoMA New York and the Design Museum London and screened at film festivals including Visions du Réel, Edinburgh International Film Festival, and Sheffield Doc Fest. Read my latest peer reviewed film paper, A Geography of the Screen, here.
I am a Deputy Course Director (remote) at The School of Communication at Falmouth University in Cornwall.