Carolyn F. Strauss ^(US/NL)

Carolyn F. Strauss is a curator, writer, and creative facilitator whose work engages diverse facets of contemporary art, architecture, and emerging technologies, as well as a range of social and environmental activisms.

She is founder and director of Slow Research Lab, a multidisciplinary creative platform that centers ‘Slow research’ as an expanded lens for knowing (and getting to know) the world: cultivating tools for sensing complexity, tuning into variant rhythms and temporalities, amplifying quieter voices, and encouraging greater accountability to the ecologies with which human lives and activities are entwined. Deeply committed to listening and dialogue — and actively embracing the unknown as a portal to new dimensions of experience — the platform aims to be a fertile, generative space both for charting new trajectories of creativity and for enlarging the boundaries of human consciousness.

Carolyn is the editor of Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection (2021) and Slow Reader: A Resource for Design Thinking and Practice (2016), both published by Valiz. Since 2020, she is the host of the podcast AI Murmurings that speculates about (Slow) intersections of contemporary art and artificial intelligence. She lives in Amsterdam.