Navigation, 16"x20", acrylic on paper.

Hi, I'm Emily Gillcrist.
I'm a technocritical strategist, researcher, educator, and artist. I'm Deputy Director for Information Resilience at the Institute for Security and Technology and the founder of vitalthought.org. I'm also a PhD Candidate in Cultural Analysis & Theory.

My research synthesizes science & technology studies, cognitive science, postcolonial ecocriticism, existential phenomenology, and psychoanalytic deconstruction to address the explosion of technoindustrial power in relation to the worsening climate crisis.

My edtech startup, Vital Thought, promotes engaged multimodal analysis, ethical thinking, cultural and digital literacy, and pragmatic strategizing in our unprecedented historical moment.

My artwork is inspired by themes in my research: materiality, vitality, and the tension of the nature/culture relation.