Alexandra (Sasha) Anikina is a film-maker, researcher and media artist. Completed PhD at Goldsmiths, London. She works with experimental film, game engine art and lecture-performances, investigating algorithmic cultures and affects, image politics and platform economy. 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, most recently, Art Sonje museum, Seoul, Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul, Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale. Co-curator of IMPAKT 2018 ‘Algorithmic Superstructures’. She is currently a Balzan Post-doctoral Fellow at Sorbonne Nouvelle University and an Associate Researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University. Currently she is working on a monograph on procedural mediation, as well as on the themes of techno-animism and post-socialist mythologies.