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Johanna Drucker and Roberto Simanowski, What Do We Discuss When We Discuss the Interface? A Conversation

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Johanna Drucker and Roberto Simanowski, What Do We Discuss When We Discuss the Interface? A Conversation. Interface Critique 5 (2025): 20–48.

DOI: 10.11588/ic.2025.1.113532. 

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Johanna Drucker, Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA, is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, art, and digital humanities. Recent work includes Inventing the Alphabet (University of Chicago Press, 2022), Visualisation L’Interprétation modélisante (B42, 2020), and Iliazd: Meta-Biography of a Modernist (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). Her artist books, widely represented in museum and library collections, were the subject of a travelling retrospective, Druckworks: 40 years of books and projects, in 2012. In 2021 she received the AIGA’s Steven Heller Award for Cultural Criticism.

Roberto Simanowski is a researcher in the fields of cultural and media studies. He held professorships at universities such as Universität Basel, University of Hong Kong and Brown University and was distinguished and visiting fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin, the Universität Hamburg and Harvard University. He has published extensively on subjects such as digital humanities, media theory, social media, and digital art. Publications include Data Love. The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies (Columbia University Press 2016), Facebook Society. Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves (Columbia University Press 2018), The Death
Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas (MIT Press 2018; CHOICE Award Outstanding Academic Titles für 2019), Todesalgorithmus. Das Dilemma der künstlichen Intelligenz (Passagen Verlag 2020; Tractatus Award for the best philosophical essay in German in 2020) and most recently Das Verschwinden von Raum und Zeit im Prozess ihrer Digitalisierung (Passagen Verlag 2023).