Ben Grosser investigates how the designs of platform interfaces—from social media to AI chatbots—shape human behavior, desire, and culture.
Through tactics such as software recomposition, interface reduction, and radical reimagination, his artworks expose software’s hidden politics and propose alternatives that restore user agency. Recent exhibitions include Centre Pompidou in Paris, Somerset House in London, and ZKM in Karlsruhe. Grosser’s projects have been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wired, The Atlantic, and Der Spiegel. His artworks are regularly cited in books investigating the cultural effects of technology, including The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, The Metainterface, and Investigative Aesthetics, as well as volumes centered on media art practice such as Electronic Literature and Digital Art.
