Tung-Hui Hu is a poet and a scholar of digital media. He is the author of five books, most recently
Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection (MIT Press, 2022),
A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press, 2015) and
Greenhouses, Lighthouses (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). His research on data centers, AI, burnout, and visual art has been featured by
CBS News,
BBC Radio 4,
WIRED,
New Scientist,
Art in America, and
e-flux, and at venues such as HKW House of World Cultures (Berlin), The Photographer’s Gallery (London), and the Aspen Art Museum. His poems have appeared in
The New Republic,
Ploughshares,
Poem-a-Day, and
Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres, among other places, as well as on board a 1960 Gio Ponti-designed train in Milan and in a 24-hour durational music performance at Wesleyan University.
Hu has been awarded fellowships from the American Academy in Rome and the National Endowment for the Arts (as a writer), and the American Academy in Berlin and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (as a scholar). His new project is tentatively titled
A History of the World in 7 Datasets.
