Mariana Fernández Mora (1991, MX/NL) is a researcher, artist and writer based in Amsterdam. Her work bridges artistic practice and theoretical inquiry, drawing on critical theory, philosophy and feminist thought to examine the entanglements between algorithmic systems, knowledge production, and extractivism. She approaches artificial intelligence as planetary infrastructure sustained by material resources, attention, affect, labour, and inherited epistemologies, rather than as an immaterial system.
Through writing, sculpture, and installation, she investigates how algorithmic systems shape bodies, environments, and perception. Her work develops concepts such as Slow AI, Planetary Somatics, and the Lullament as speculative and affective frameworks that address extractive legacies while proposing situated, care-based encounters with technology.
Fernández Mora is affiliated with the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), where she conducts her Professional Doctorate project, Entangled Machines: Decolonial Modes of Encounter with Artificial Intelligence.