Nora N. Khan

Nora N. Khan is an independent critic, essayist, curator, and educator. Her writings on the philosophy of AI and emerging technologies is referenced widely across fields. Formally, this work attempts to theorize the limits of algorithmic knowledge and locate computation’s influence on critical language. 
She is a member of the Curatorial Ensemble of the 2026 edition of Counterpublic, one of the USA’s largest public civic exhibitions, titled Coyote Time. She co-curated with Andrea Bellini the Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement 2024 (Centre d‘Art Contemporain Genève). As curator of Manual Override at The Shed (2020), she worked on new commissions, in an exhibition that featured major works by Simon Fujiwara and Martine Syms. 
She is currently Faculty in Creative Technologies at UCSC, and has served as Arts Council Professor at UCLA in Design Media Arts, History, and Theory faculty at SCI-Arc, and professor in Digital + Media at Rhode Island School of Design, where she was nominated for the John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her books are AI Art and the Stakes for Art Criticism (2026), Seeing, Naming, Knowing (2019), and Fear Indexing the X-Files (2017), with Steven Warwick.