Alexander R. Galloway is a media theorist and programmer who teaches at New York University. He wrote Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (2004) and is a founding member of the Radical Software Group, which created the surveillance tool Carnivore.
Alexander Galloway's work on interfaces and protocols helps me understand the structures underlying digital systems, while Nora Khan's writing on AI art and the aesthetics of machine learning provides frameworks specifically tailored to algorithmic creation.
A.I.C.C.A., Mario Klingemann & A.I.C.C.A. on Alien Perspective