Özgün Eylül İşcen is a film and media theorist specializing in digital art and design. She received her PhD in Computational Media, Arts and Cultures from Duke University, and she is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at ICI Berlin. İşcen’s work examines counter-visual artistic practices that intervene in the material conditions and ethico-legal systems underlying the extractive operations of computational media in the context of the Middle East.