About me

I am a design researcher exploring more-than-human design perspectives, mostly through the material and ethical qualities of living organisms.

Through autobiographic design methods, bodily and movement practices, microscopy, digital fabrication, and digital art, I aim to expose entangled relations with nonhumans and human-centered assumptions, and to fabulate and enact different ones. My background is in media studies, human-computer interaction (HCI), and interaction design from the Media Innovation Lab (milab) at Reichman University. I have published and demoed my research at ACM CHI, ACM DIS, and ACM IDC, and exhibited work at the Museum of Boulder, the Arvada Center, and the Dairy Arts Center.

I earned a PhD in Creative Technology & Design from the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder.

I am on the academic job market!

Email: netta.ofer@colorado.edu

Artist statement

I investigate the hierarchical nature of human–nonhuman relationships, specifically with living organisms. I use design research, embodied practices, and visual art to expose anthropocentric contact zones and challenge narrow perspectives. From examining the surveillance in microscopic observation to designing embodied interactions with nonhuman organisms, I explore how human exceptionalism shapes the links between bodies and how we perceive them. My practice often relies on growing and tending to nonhuman organisms to surface points of connection and tension between our humanism, ourselves, and other agentic forces. These practices reveal what is in-becoming, overlooked, and uncertain in a world that is polarized and forced into categories.

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