Douglas Edric Stanley is an American-born artist working principally in the field of new media where he explores the complex intersections of algorithms and æsthetics. At once artist, designer, curator, developer, and theoretician, he documents the means by which various disciplines are progressively being transformed by the algorithmisation of the world. Active in the scene of video games and experimental forms of play, he co-founded with Antonin Fourneau the hydra-monster otherwise known as ENIAROF.
His current research at IRAD (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) explores algorithmic writing, artificial intelligence, and hybrid media remix systems, with a particular interest in how playable, non-linear narratives can function as models of the real.
He teaches Algorithmic Design and Playable Media in the Media Design Master of the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD). In 1998 Douglas founded the Atelier Hypermédia at École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence, one of the first European artistic ateliers dedicated to the exploration of algorithms and code as artistic materials, with a particular emphasis on the use of play in the exploration of emerging forms.
He has organised numerous workshops related to creative coding and experimental game design for museums, non-profits, universities, and art schools. As an artist, he has participated in several exhibitions related to digital art.