Nancy Mauro-Flude

Nancy Mauro-Flude is an artistic researcher and design anthropologist working at the frontline of the the maker aesthetic. Her commitment to cooperative-artist-held-ordonnances are widely acknowledged for their distinctive integration of performing arts, and open-source software; lovingly hand coded lo-fidelity off-grid mesh networks, advancing wireless Linux infrastructure. Guided by her longitudinal commitment to free software, the algorithmic dance of computation and feminist-anarchist-web server communities, Nancy devises experiential processes that seed the ground for informal knowledge exchange, so that Earthothers can flourish. She examines these contexts through publications such as Thinking with Shells: Decolonising Digital Culturescapes (2025), Writing the Feminist Internet (2024), Caring About the Vast Horizon (2022), Performing with the Aether (2020), Methodologies of Risk (2017) and so on.

Nancy lectures in the philosophy of technology, spatial practices, and feminist science technology and science studies. Her heuristic critiques contribute to maturing discussions around embodied cognition, data fiction and flora fauna and the materiality of computation. As RMIT Regenerative Future Fellow she codesigns transdisciplinary courseware for delivery across the colleges, to undergraduate and postgraduate students and to learners in cross-sector contexts. Nancy leads studio curricula for the Master of Design Innovation and Technology (MDIT) cohort. Nancy is a senior supervisor to an exceptional cohort of Higher Degree Researchers, some of who are affiliated to the global Practice Based Research Symposium, | Digital Ethnography Research Centre | Post carbon research. | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)

Nancy is founder of ESP – the Ecofeminist Studio for Permacomputing.