Jurij Smrke, PhD
Assistant
Jurij Smrke is a programmer and researcher specialized for working at the intersection of software development, arts, social sciences, humanities and activism. He holds a BA in Journalism (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana), an MA in Digital Media (Goldsmiths College, University of London) and a PhD from Coventry University. His PhD thesis is titled “Politics of Valuation” and intervenes in the ways in which we evaluate academic labour via citations, joining theoretical reflection with elements of practice-based technological research and development. At the Peace Institute, he is employed as a methodologist and focuses on developing and implementing digital research methods. He is especially experienced and interested in developing disruptive technologies with a sociopolitical intent and reinventing media forms/publishing genres.
As an editor (Tribuna magazine), researcher (Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University) and occasional artist, he has been continuously engaged with a large number of ever relevant topics in the humanities and social sciences but has always returned to thinking about technology, power, value(s) and intersecting injustices/inequalities. He is interested in living together well on a finite planet.
He likes to make furniture and friends. He made Radovan.
