EL Putnam is Associate Professor in Digital Media at Maynooth University in Ireland. They are an artist-philosopher whose interdisciplinary practice defamiliarises the pleasures and tensions of human-technological relations through performance art, moving image, and multimedia installation. Recent exhibitions include Under the Feet of Shadows with author Mike McCormack shown at Mart Gallery, Dublin (2024) and CIACLA, Los Angeles (2025) and the solo exhibition PseudoRandom at Emerson Contemporary, Boston (2023). They are a member of Mobius Artists Group (Boston), Bbeyond (Belfast), and AICA Ireland. Their recent monographs include Livestreaming as Aesthetic and Ethical Encounter (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) and The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption (Bloomsbury, 2022). Dr. Putnam holds a PhD in Aesthetics, Art Theory, and Philosophy from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.www.elputnam.com