Benjamin H. Bratton is a theorist whose work spans Philosophy, Art and Design. He Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Director of D:GP, The Center for Design and Geopolitics at the University of California, San Diego. His research is situated at the intersections of contemporary social and political theory, computational media & infrastructure, architectural & urban design problems, and the politics of synthetic ecologies and biologies. Current work focuses on the political geography of cloud computing, massively-granular universal addressing systems, and alternate models of ecological governance. His next book, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, is forthcoming from MIT Press.
Before coming to U.C. San Diego in 2009, Bratton taught theory and design for a decade at SCI_Arc (The Southern California Institute of Architecture) where is now Visiting Faculty, and from 2003-08 in the UCLA Department of Design|Media Arts. Bratton has lectured widely, and is the author of many articles, book chapters, in both academic and popular publications, and has been an visiting lecturer and critic at Columbia, Pratt, Yale, Architectural Association of London, Penn, USC, UCLA, Art Center College of Design, Michigan, Brown, the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Bauhaus-University, Moscow State, among others. He was also co-chair of ambient:interface, the 54th (and final) International Design Conference in Aspen.
Bratton is a frequent advisor and consultant to public and private organizations. He is currently a Fellow with Lybba, an open-data healthcare design nonprofit. In a previous life, he was the Director of the Advanced Strategies Group at Yahoo! He lives in La Jolla with Bruna Mori and their son, Lucien.
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