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Maja Bak Herrie is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. She received her PhD from the Faculty of Arts at Aarhus University in 2019, with a dissertation focused on aesthetics, culture, and modern data processing in digital knowledge production. Her research intersects aesthetics, media theory, philosophy of science, and specifically addresses computational vision technologies, scientific imaging, and artistic research. Maja's monograph, 'Thinking Data: Outliers, Aggregates, Patterns Shape Perception', was published by Stanford University Press in March 2025. Her work has been featured in various scholarly journals, including AI & Society, Contemporary Aesthetics, Leonardo, and others. Maja is also the co-editor of the Nordic Journal of Aesthetics and has contributed to special issues on contemporary topics. She is currently engaged in the research project 'NEW VISIONS: Image Cultures in the Era of AI', which is funded by the Aarhus University Research Foundation and linked to the Centre for Aesthetics and AI Images, where she is a co-founder.
Aarhus University • Aarhus, Denmark
Teaching and researching in aesthetics, media theory, and digital knowledge production.
Department of Computer Science offers tracks in Software Efficiency, Cryptography, and Data Science.