Visiting Scholars
Rebecca Close works at the intersection of science and technology studies and art.
Their doctoral thesis on ‘the fixed capital of fertility’ situated emergent computational and software landscapes of assisted reproduction in Europe in a broader history of reproductive technologies and politics since the 1970s, and was awarded the 2024 Doctoral Thesis Award by the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University. They were a 2022 Visiting Scholar at ReproSoc, Cambridge University. Their arts criticism and curatorial projects previously focused on HIV/AIDS-related video art in the UK, publishing Revisiting the AIDS-related work of Pratibha Parmar (2017) and curating “Notes on Visual Justice” (LGBT Centre, Barcelona, 2020).
They are currently leading the project Imaging/Imagining Reproductive Crisis: time-lapse microscopy, animation and fertility discourse , which forms part of the MSCA DOROTHY post-doctoral fellowship on the topic of ‘public health crisis’. A recent article The Fertility Fix was published in The New Bioethics.
Read more about their work: https://rebeccaclose.net