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Education


2026 PhD University of Delaware Geography and Spatial Sciences Dissertation Title: “Placing Technologies: Situated Histories of Spatial Software”
2023 MA University of Delaware Geography and Spatial Sciences
2009 BFA Maryland Institute College of Art Printmaking, concentration in Book Arts, minor in Art History

Course Development and Teaching


| 2024- 2025, 2018- 2019 | The Cooper Union (New York, NY)

Co-instructor of a course on Machine Learning And Art, cross-listed in the art and engineering departments, taught with electrical engineering professor Sam Keene (2018); instructor on Ethics in Computer Science course for the engineering department (2019, 2024, 2025). | | --- | --- | | 2021 | The New School (New York, NY)

Instructor on “Internet Geographies” taught online during winter term 2021 at Eugene Lang. Internet Geographies was a new course that combined study of network infrastructure and tech supply chains with Javascript-based web mapping tools. | | 2017- 2018 | Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI)

Co-instructor with Tim Maly on Graduate Thesis Communications in the Industrial Design Graduate Studies program. | | 2017 | Tactical Technology Collective Data Investigation Camp (Dobrota, Montenegro)

Co-instructor with Surya Mattu on methods in data investigations for human rights researchers, environmental activists, journalists, and artists at weeklong intensive camp held in Montenegro July 19-24, 2017. | | 2016, 2018 | School for Poetic Computation (New York, NY)

Taught “Architectural History of Computing”, spring and fall 2016. Topics covered included technology supply chains, data center geography and politics, and New York internet history. In 2018 taught “Networked Terraforming”, a workshop on the material and mineral supply chains underlying the internet, taught as part of SFPC’s Code Societies intensive. | | 2015 | Networks Land (link to website)

A collection of teaching modules for education on network infrastructure, internet governance, and core network protocols aimed at teens and young adults. Initially developed in collaboration with Surya Mattu, with the support of Data and Society Research Institute and the Knight Prototype Fund. In addition to the work produced with the Knight grant, we’ve adapted modules from Networks Land and developed new modules for the New York City Department of Education’s Computer Science For All initiative. |

Publications


Books

2016 Burrington, Ingrid. Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure. New York, NY: Melville House, 2016.. Selected press coverage: Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, WNYC

Peer Reviewed Articles

2024 Burrington, Ingrid. “From War Crystals to Ordinary Sand: Excavating Silicon Supply Chains.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 13-23, April-June 2024, doi: 10.1109/MAHC.2024.3378121

Book Chapters, Contributed Essays and Graphics, Multimedia Scholarship

2023 Bridges, L.E., Burrington, I., Chen, A., Cooper, Z.G.T., Macherera, M., Mangwana, J., Maphosa, V., Zezai, D. Geographies of Digital Wasting: Electronic Waste From Mine to Discard and Back Again. [Multimodal Exhibit], 2023. doi: 10.17613/xjcx-7b43
2022 Burrington, Ingrid. “Digging up the Cloud.” In Songs of the Sky: Photography & the Cloud. Edited by Kathrin Schönegg. Leipzig, Germany: Spektor Books, 2022.

Burrington, Ingrid. “Site Specificity.” In HOLO 3: Mirror Stage. Editor Nora N. Khan. Berlin, Germany: HOLO, 2022. | | 2021 | Burrington, Ingrid, and O’Neill, Paul. “Conversation with Ingrid Burrington.” In SYSTEMS: User or Used? Edited by Paul O’Neill. Dublin: Science Gallery Dublin, 2021. | | 2019 | Burrington, Ingrid. “A Benediction for the Amazon Wind Farm Texas.” In Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post-Anthropocene. Edited by Liam Young. West Sussex, England: John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2019.

Burrington, Ingrid. “The Valley and the Predator.” In The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology. Edited by Michael Connor and Aria Dean. New York: Rhizome, 2019. | | 2018 | Burrington, Ingrid. “Effortless Slippage.” In Dimensions of Citizenship: Architecture and Belonging from the Body to the Cosmos. Edited by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Ann Lui, and Mimi Zeiger. Los Angeles, USA: Inventory Press, 2018. | | 2017 | Burrington, Ingrid.”Living With Our Daemons.” In NGV Triennial 2017. Edited by Ewan McEoin, Simon Maidment, Megan Patty, and Pip Wallis. Melbourne, Australia: National Gallery of Victoria, 2017.

Burrington, Ingrid. “Forever Noon on a Cloudless Day.” In The Noise of Being. Edited by Rosa Menkman. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Sonic Acts Press, 2017.

Burrington, Ingrid. “The Recent Past of Capitalist Future.” The Museum of Capitalism. Edited by FICTILIS with Rose Linke and Eugenia Bell. Los Angeles, USA: Inventory Press, 2017. | | 2016 | Burrington, Ingrid. “Notes from Some American Real-Time Landscapes.” Development: Okayama Art Summit 2016 Catalogue. Edited by Annie Godfrey Larmon. Okayama, Japan: Okayama Art Summit Executive Committee, 2016. | | 2013 | Schnieder, Nathan. Thank You Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse. Berkeley, CA: University of California Berkeley Press, 2013. (Contributed front matter cartography) |

Journalistic Publications