Heather Dewey-Hagborg & Lior Zalmanson
Cornell Tech
Digital Life Seminar
Abstract
The Digital Life Seminar series offers students and guests an opportunity to engage actively with leading scholars and practitioners researching and responding to the development and application of digital technologies.
About
Dr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a New York-based American/Canadian artist and biohacker who is interested in art as research and technological critique. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (hair, cigarette butts, chewed up gum) collected in public places. Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum, the Daejeon Biennale, the Guangzhou Triennial, and the Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale, Transmediale, the Walker Center for Contemporary Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and PS1 MoMA. Her work is held in public collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Victoria and Albert Museum, SFMoMA, among others, and has been widely discussed in the media, from the New York Times and the BBC to Art Forum and Wired.
Prof. Lior Zalmanson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology Management and Information Systems at the Faculty, serving as Department Chair since October 2025. Head of AIMLAB – the Artificial Intelligence in Management, Labor and Business. His research focuses on integration of AI in traditional organizations, user engagement and commitment in digital environments, business models of content platforms, and algorithmic management. His work has received grants and awards from the ERC (Starting Grant 2023–2029), the Fulbright Foundation, the German-Israeli Foundation (GIF), Grant for the Web, the Dan David Prize, Google, and others, and has been published in leading journals such as MIS Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Information Systems, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, as well as MIT Sloan Management Review and Harvard Business Review.