Rebecca Close's work explores the role of digital/network/computational cultures in shaping changing perceptions of family, households, sex-gender and sexuality norms, healthcare and borders.
Their research intersects STS, Software Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies and the History and Sociology of Reproduction. They also make animation films, installations, write essays, experimental texts, creative coding projects and poetry that weave a digital arts practice with personal and collective narration to reclaim
‘social reproduction’ as a site of creativity and possibility.
Current research focuses on how equity, population and race are enacted in the scientific study of reproductive biology, addressing the increasing participation of
financial actors and market forces in making reproductive knowledge.
They are currently based between Institut d'Història de la Ciència (UAB, Barcelona) and the School of Applied Social Studies (UCC, Cork) working
on a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project on fertility decline, science, images and imagination.
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