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Alexandra (Sasha) Anikina is a media theorist and artist. She is Associate Professor in Digital Media and Technocultures at Winchester School of Art, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ. Her work focuses on decolonial tech imaginaries, affective infrastructures, feminist STS and technological conditions of knowledge production, governance, labour and affect. She writes on on a variety of audiovisual media and digital artefacts, including experimental film, social media algorithmic recommendation systems, games, screensavers and contemporary art. She is Co-Director of research group and Programme Co-Lead for MA Digital Media at the department of Art and Media Technology in Winchester School of Art, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ. Her up-to-date publications can be found. 

As an artist, she works with film, digital media, embroidery and lecture-performances. Recently she has been focused on two bodies of work: one, feminist and decolonial imaginaries of future AI and techno-animism; and the other concerned with state necropolitics. Her work has been shown internationally, including VI Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Gaîté Lyrique, Paris; Anthology Film Archives, New York; NCCA Moscow; Korean Film Archive and Art Sonje Museum, Seoul; Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul; Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale; Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow; ar/ge kunst, Bolzano, and others. Her artist portfolio can be found.

Before joining Winchester School of Art, she taught at Goldsmiths, London South Bank University and King’s College London. She was Balzan Post-Doctoral Fellow at New Sorbonne University Paris 3 in 2021-2022. She was co-editor of  (London: ZED Books, 2017, TLS Book of the Year 2017). She co-curated media art festival IMPAKT 2018 ‘’ and was a Digital Earth Fellow in 2020-2021.