Nancy Mauro-Flude

Dr Nancy Mauro-Flude is an artistic researcher with an expertise in network infrastructure and computing arts.

Nancy's 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 mesh networks, advancing wireless Linux infrastructure. Her longitudinal commitment to free software, the algorithmic dance of computation and feminist-anarchist-web server communities seed the ground for Earthothers to flourish.

The bredth of her transdiscipinary expertise, that spans social innovation, critical theory and aesthetics are demonstrated in 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).

Nancy lectures in the design justice, philosophy of technology, spatial practices, and feminist Science Technology and Society studies. Her heuristic critiques contribute to maturing discussions around embodied cognition, data fiction and flora fauna and the materiality of computation.

She is particularly interested in working with people who have lived expereince of low socio-economic, remote, isolated and underserved regions.

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 espX – the Ecofeminist Studio for Permacomputing.