Carmen Lael Hines is a curator, writer and researcher. Her work is situated at the intersection of art, architecture and design with a special interest in technology and new media theory. Her curatorial practice explores innovative approaches to exhibition design in unique architectural spaces. She works between Madrid and Vienna.

From 2020–2024, she was lecturer and researcher in the Department of Visual Culture at the Vienna University of Technology where she taught a range of courses, including “The Laboratory of Posthumanist Architecture” and “The Platform is my Boyfriend.” Her recent writing and work engages: AI generated pornography, home automation, femtech, sextech and digital contraception. These themes often orient the exhibitions she curates. From September 2024, she will guest lecture at CuratorLab Konstfack in Stockholm.

At present, she holds a curatorial position at The Ryder Projects, Madrid and is faculty at the Institute for Postnatural Studies where she coordinates a course titled Cyberwitches and Feminist Internet. She is co-editing the book:  Posthumanist Approaches to a Critique of Political Economy, to be published by Bloomsbury, and Plantspace to be published by Sternberg Press. She is also pursuing a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna titled The Plant Complex.

She holds a BA from the University of Oxford, and an MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has taught in the Department of Spatial Design (TU Wien), HEAD(Geneva) and the Institute for Contemporary Art (TU Graz), and presented her research at institutions such as the University of Bologna, Academy of Arts Vienna, KTH Stockholm, Index Contemporary Art Foundation, and Floating University Berlin. 

With Roberto Majano, she won the Se Busca Comisario for the Sala de Arte Joven, with an exhibition that will explore the aesthetics of machine learning and AI image generation from feminist perspectives on digital erotics. She is also currently conceptualising an exhibition concerning the visual culture of bodies facilitated by biomedical forms of perception. The latter exhibition will take place at Austria’s oldest broadcasting centre, the FUNKHAUS, in collaboration with Never at Home. 

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Institute for Postnatural Studies
The Ryder Projects