Robert Collins

PhD Researcher - Designing For Contestable Systems - Umeå Institute of Design (DCODE Network) - Agonistic Design

Projects

Antidefuturing OS: Offline Knowledge Server (2026)
Antidefuturing OS: An Operating System for Entanglement (2025)
The Conspiracy Capitaliser (2023)
Black Box II: Posthuman Networks (2022-)
The Contestation Café (2022)
Insert Here, To Fix Everything (2019)
Space Station Tracker (2018)
64 Things To Worry About v3.0 (2017)
Black Box I: LOQ (2015)
What’s In It For Me? (2015)
Voyager (2014)
Occasional Earthquake Table (2013)
The Memetic Phone (2012)

Production

Touring Exhibition Production
One.Some.Many – Carsten Höller – EVA16
Zip Guns – Design & Violence
Hussein Minni Wa Ana Min Hussein – Rana Hamadeh – EVA14
Personal Food Computer – Field Test

Tactical/Experimental

Disobedience
Focus Lamp
LightStick
Public Access Drones
Protest Tech

Public/Texts

Blog
MSc Thesis – Sentient House
ADVERSARIAL I
Alt-Delete
CRITICAL II
CRITICAL I
Future Fringe

Robert Collins is an Irish artist, designer and creative technician based in Sweden, and is currently working as a PhD researcher in Contestable Design at the Umeå Institute of Design.

His work explores the inherent noise and saturation of information in contemporary society, through speculative objects and software.

He holds an MSc in Interactive Media, where he explored the creation of spaces for adversarial discussion and common ground.

He also facilitates artworks for new-media artists and produces ArtScience exhibitions across the world on behalf of Science Gallery International and others.

His work has appeared at Ars Electronica, Science Gallery, Nieuwe Instituut and in Neural Magazine.

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