| 2026 | PhD University of Delaware Geography and Spatial Sciences Dissertation Title: “Placing Technologies: Situated Histories of Spatial Software” |
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| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
| 2022 | Burrington, Ingrid. “Eric’s Rare Stones.” Hell Gate. 7/19/2022
Burrington, Ingrid. “Animal, Vegetable, Capital.” Lux Magazine. February 2022 (also excerpted in Harper’s )
Burrington, Ingrid.. The Planet-Killing Asteroid is Always Political. Motherboard. 1/1/2022 | | --- | --- | | 2021 | Burrington, Ingrid. How to Design Better Systems in a World Overwhelmed by Complexity (interview with Keller Easterling), OneZero. February 19 2021. | | 2020 | Burrington, Ingrid. Don’t Hold Your Breath, conference essay for RISD’s Center for Complexity, 6/15/2020
Burrington, Ingrid. Is Going to Space Truly Essential in a Pandemic?, Engadget, 5/20/2020
Burrington, Ingrid. How to Make a Ventilator, Motherboard, 4/16/2020
Burrington, Ingrid, and Saba, Mary Jirmanus. Amazon is At War With Its Workers. OneZero, 4/14/2020
Burrington, Ingrid. After Supply Chain Capitalism, Points, 4/1/2020
Burrington, Ingrid. America needs N95 masks. These people are trying to get them to healthcare workers, Vox, 3/30/2020
Burrington, Ingrid. What Is Amazon’s Essential Goods Only Policy?, OneZero, 3/20/2020
Burrington, Ingrid. How to Mass Manufacture Humanoid Robots, OneZero, 3/18/2020
Burrington, Ingrid. A Tour of Some Logistics Landscapes, Urban Omnibus, 1/9/2020 | | 2019 | Burrington, Ingrid. How We Misremember the Internet’s Origins, The New Republic, 10/29/2019
Burrington, Ingrid. Mapping The Amazon, The Architect’s Newspaper, 4/17/2019 | | 2018 | Burrington, Ingrid. Terraforms (or How To Talk About The Weather), Ding Magazine, December 2018
Burrington, Ingrid. Sand In The Gears, The Creative Independent, 9/21/2018
Burrington, Ingrid. Neodymium, Popula, 7/30/2018
Burrington, Ingrid. The Banality of Email, The Disconnect, 7/2/2018
Burrington, Ingrid. Who Gets to Live in Silicon Valley?, The Atlantic, 6/25/2018
Burrington, Ingrid. Policing is an Information Business, Urban Omnibus, 6/20/2018
Burrington, Ingrid. A Non-Exhaustive Taxonomy of Tools of Data-Driven Policing, Urban Omnibus, 6/20/2018
Burrington, Ingrid. The CompStat Evangelist Consultant World Tour, Urban Omnibus, 6/20/2018
Burrington, Ingrid, and Winston, Ali. A Pioneer In Predictive Policing Is Starting a Troubling New Project, The Verge, 4/26/2018
Burrington, Ingrid. New Mexico’s Sad Bet on Space Exploration, The Atlantic, 3/2/2018
Burrington, Ingrid. A Rare and Toxic Age, Increment, February 2018 | | 2017 | Burrington, Ingrid. Could Facebook Be Tried for Human Rights Abuses?, The Atlantic, 12/20/2017
Burrington, Ingrid. What Happens to the Internet After a Disaster?, Select All, 10/31/2017
Burrington, Ingrid. When Climate Crisis Takes Out The Internet, Quartz, 9/12/2017
Burrington, Ingrid. Weather Control as a Service, Increment, August 2017
Burrington, Ingrid. When a Typo Breaks The Internet, Select All, 3/3/2017
Burrington, Ingrid. A Surreal Trip to a Domain Names Conference, The Atlantic, 2/13/2017 | | 2016 | Burrington, Ingrid. How a dead WWII-era philosopher understands Donald Trump better than anyone on CNN, Fusion, 10/28/2016
Burrington, Ingrid. The internet apocalypse map hides the major vulnerability that created it, The Verge, 10/24/2016
Burrington, Ingrid. Who Controls the Internet? Ted Cruz’s Fantasy vs. Reality, Fusion, 09/06/2016
Burrington, Ingrid. Light Industry: Toxic Waste and Pastoral Capitalism, e-flux Journal, 06/15/2016
Burrington, Ingrid. Why Amazon’s Data Centers Are Hidden in Spy Country, The Atlantic, 01/08/2016 | | 2015 | Burrington, Ingrid. How Mobile Carriers Skirt Net-Neutrality Rules, The Atlantic, 12/18/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. The Environmental Toll of a Netflix Binge, The Atlantic, 12/16/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. Literal American Gold Mine, San Francisco Art Quarterly, 12/11/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. The Secrets of an Abandoned Microwave Tower in Kansas, The Atlantic, 12/10/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. A Network of Fragments, The Atlantic, 12/08/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. A Journey Into the Heart of Facebook, The Atlantic, 12/04/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. Why Are There So Many Data Centers in Iowa?, The Atlantic, 12/01/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. Finding Dark Fiber in a Desert Ghost Town, The Atlantic, 11/30/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. How Railroad History Shaped Internet History, The Atlantic, 11/24/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. A Visit to the NSA’s Data Center in Utah, The Atlantic, 11/19/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. The Strange Geopolitics of the International Cloud, The Atlantic, 11/17/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. Where the Cloud Rises From the Sea, The Atlantic, 11/12/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. What’s Important About Underwater Internet Cables, The Atlantic, 11/09/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. What People Mean When They Talk About ‘The Cloud’, The Atlantic, 11/04/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. The Room Where the Internet Was Born, The Atlantic, 11/02/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. How to See Invisible Infrastructure, The Atlantic, 08/14/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. What Amazon Taught the Cops, The Nation, 05/27/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. Objects Not To Scale: Contemporary Mappa Mundi of the Surveillance State, San Francisco Art Quarterly, 05/22/2015
McCloskey, Megan, Tigas, Mike, Grochowski Jones, Ryan, Wei, Sisi, Larson, Jeff, Burrington, Ingrid. “G.I. Dough: Money as A Weapons System.” ProPublica, 05/15/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. The Failed Attempt to Destroy GPS, The Atlantic, 05/05/2015
Burrington, Ingrid. An Internet of Wars: Military Networks and Network Militarization, San Francisco Art Quarterly, 02/11/2015 | | 2014 | Burrington, Ingrid. Droneism (with Joanne McNeil), Dissent, Spring 2014
Burrington, Ingrid. Islands in the Stream: On Local Networks and Internet Freedom, San Francisco Art Quarterly, 11/10/2014
Burrington, Ingrid. On the Outskirts of Crypto City, Creative Time Reports, 1/7/2014 |
| 2024 | “Walk on the Blade: Marc Rich & Co”, RIP Corp, 6/26/2024
“Capitalism Quest: The Sierra Online Story”, RIP Corp, 3/20/2024 | | --- | --- | | 2023 | “2023 Corporate In Memorial”, RIP Corp, 12/28/2023
“$2500 and a Dream: Fansteel and the History of Tantalum”, RIP Corp, 12/13/2023
“RIP Docs: The Vice Bankruptcy”, RIP Corp, 9/13/2023
“Little Paper Guys: An Overview of Corporate Personhood”, RIP Corp, 8/16/2023
“The Story of This Town is Failure: Fairchild Semiconductor and Its Children”, RIP Corp, 6/8/2023 | | 2022 | “Why Do We Keep Dead Company Merch?”, RIP Corp, 10/12/2022
“Cosplay Cops and Special Ops: Baldwin-Felts and the West Virginia Mine Wars”, RIP Corp, 3/15/2022 | | 2021 | “Sex, Lies, and Classifieds: The Fall of Backpage” (co-written with Melissa Gira Grant), RIP Corp, 10/7/2021
“Failing Upward: Dan Snyder and The Six Flags of Football Teams”, RIP Corp, 4/29/2021
“In Space No One Can Hear You Sell”, RIP Corp, 3/23/2021
“Pierced Ears and Private Equity: The Rise and Fall of Claire’s”, RIP Corp, 1/28/2021 | | 2020 | “It’s a Wonderful RIP Corp Holiday Special”, RIP Corp, 12/24/2020
“Blockbuster and Enron and Chill”, RIP Corp, 10/21/2020 |