Nathan Jones - Theme Lead

Nathan Jones is a researcher, curator, and writer whose work explores how contemporary art can function as a research environment for investigating complex technological and planetary systems. He is particularly interested in immersive and time-based media, artistic research as interdisciplinary method, and the speculative use of AI and language technologies. He co-developed Unsecurities Lab at Security Lancaster to examine how cultural practices can surface emerging risks and inform adaptive security thinking.

Jones is co-Director of Torque Editions and editor or co-author of Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain (2017) and Bibliotech (2025). His monograph Glitch Poetics was published by Open Humanities Press in 2022. His wider research includes festival-based and site-responsive practices, distributed critique, and the role of cultural infrastructures in rural innovation and human-centred approaches to Industry 5.0.