Hi! I'm Kyra Ocean ⟨KEER-ah OH-shen⟩—an artist and researcher living somewhere between computing and the arts, network culture, media studies, experimental interactivity, and curatorial/archival platforms.
My writing and curatorial work explores alternative, inclusive, and feminist histories of art and technology: recovering overlooked trajectories, revisiting paths not taken, and connecting earlier network cultures to the systems and questions of the present. I curate exhibitions through ANI GIF and other online and offline galleries, and contribute writing, research, and visual/editorial design to independent and boutique media releases.
I’m a cofounder of Soft Detours, a creative studio, and the creator of WWWTXT (2012‑), a media archaeology project that rebroadcasts conversations from the pre‑Y2K internet. By resurfacing these ordinary, strange, intimate, and speculative exchanges, WWWTXT reveals paths not taken while simultaneously foreshadowing a future reality we now inhabit.
My involvement with network culture dates to the 1990s, when I operated Online Enemy, a modem-based cultural outpost for digital artpacks, demoscene software, and computer music. I later co-directed New Tropics (2015‑18), an artist-forward VR network, and from 2004‑12 was a researcher at UC San Diego’s Center for Research in Computing and the Arts and San Diego Supercomputer Center, where I earned an MFA in Visual Arts.
My work has been shown at MOCA Los Angeles, Museum of the Moving Image, MCA, Ars Electronica, Rhizome, Electric Picnic, and Art Basel Miami, and has been featured in Hyperallergic, Bruce Sterling’s Beyond the Beyond, Wired, Forbes, Fast Company, and Boing Boing.
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kO 2026 ▋