About
A multimodal theory of inhuman feminine intelligence within planetary computational systems, advancing ideas from cyberfeminism and xenofeminism. 

Variations have been presented at Serpentine Galleries, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), transmediale, MoMU Antwerp, Vienna Digital Cultures, Medialab Matadero, Creamcake 3HD, Aksioma, Somerset House Studios, University of the Arts London, and elsewhere. Girl R&D was supported through an invited fellowship at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures at Die Angewandte.  

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Alex Quicho is a theorist in London. Her practice incorporates critical writing, performative lectures, and moving image to develop novel ways of understanding life within technological systems. 

Her work has been featured in Wired, Frieze, Dazed, Vogue, Spike, The Face, MIT Technology Review and more. She is the author of Girl Intelligence (2025) and Small Gods (2020).

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Girl Intelligence.
Apex predator of the technosphere.      A theoretical framework, research practice and lifestyle.Everyone is a girl. Are you?

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Theory



The Girl is not a person, demographic, or aesthetic — she's an operative entity and a technology of subjectivity. 
Summary

She is the instantly-recognisable container of symbolic, consumer, and inhuman forces. She survives because she is empty [legible/writable] and indomitable [mutating inside familiar forms].

She facialises: concentrates sensing into supernormal interface. She overexposes: uses representation as defense, distraction, decoy. She shimmers: flickers between transparency and occlusion, beauty and perfection. 

Indifferent to identity and domination, she uses codes generated by society — gender, decoration, and appeal — to escape every trap designed in her image. Core texts

Everyone is a Girl Online, WIRED (2023)
Girl intelligence, Aksioma (2025)
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Cover image by Siir Bicer
1.1 Girl Intelligence (2025)
Features
Girl Online, with Helen Hester and Sophie Publig, Meson Press (forthcoming)
Girl Reader, Institute of Network Cultures (forthcoming)
“Good 4 U,” Girls, MoMU Antwerp (2025)
“Girl Intelligence,” Are You A Software Update?, Aksioma (2025) 

Lectures
Girlstack, Arebyte (2026)
Girl Intelligence, Aksioma (2026)
Girls Never Die, Weibel Institute Fellow Lecture (2025)
Girlstack, Creamcake 3HD (2023)
Girlstack, BODYSTACK, London College of Fashion (2023)

Interviews
“The It Girl of Girl Theory,” Fetchish (ig interview) (2026)
☆ “The Girl’s Inhuman Arsenal,” Tactics&Practice (2025)
“A Girl is a Gun,” Disintegrator (2025)
“The Girlstack w/ theorist Alex Quicho,”  New Models (2024)

Just for Fun
Hot Girl Excellence w/ Rahel, Alex, Cat, Christina, Elaine, Nicole & Nihal, Foundation.fm Selected press
Shumon Basar, “The Miu Miu Moment,” 032c (2024)
Alžběta Čermáková, “I really am just a girl,” Flash Art (2025)
Kez Cochrane, “Hannah Diamond and Arvida Byström are girls online,” Dazed (2023)
Lydia Eliza Trail, “What it feels like for a post-girl,” Dazed (2025)
Dua Lipa, “The Sunday List,” Service95 (2025)
Philipp Pyle, “Petra Collins Says Sorry,” 032c (2024)
Rhiannon Williams, “The Download,” MIT Technology Review (2023)

Cited in ♡
Patricia Bandeira, “Planetary Posthumanism,” Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens (2024)
Arianna Caserta, “Schizo Girl Theory,” Nero Editions (2025)
Edoardo Bicossi, “Platform Pragmatics,” APRJA (2024)
Arvida Bystrôm, Biblically Accurate Babe (2025)
Daniel Felstead and Jenn Leung, Literally No Place, dis (2024)
Amy Ireland & Maya B. Kronic, Cute Accelerationism, Urbanomic (2024)
Amy Ireland, “Wholesome Software: Uncute Western AI Narratives and Their Limits,” Sussex Digital Humanities Lab (2024)
Maisa Imamović, Maisa in Webland: Detouring UX Destinies, Set Margins (2025)
Christina Lu, “Artificial Girl Intelligence,” Tropez (2024)
August Kaasa Sundgaard & Ruben Stoffelen (eds.), This Can’t Be The Place: Alternative Theories of the Internet, Institute of Network Cultures (2026)
Rian Phin on Eckhaus Latta FW26 & Vaquera FW26 :)

Next
☆ Everyone is a Girl, platform by Ester Frieder et al. 
We are all Girls Online, research by Sophie Publig and Charlotte Reuß 

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Operation

Girls are hard at work changing world-systems with feminine tactics.  Summary

As a symbolic-consumer subject, the Girl is already a perfected tool of marketing and propaganda. Close attention to her inhuman dimensions — the tendency to swarm, charm, attract and evade — reveals hidden and  underestimated power in the co-evolution of girls and machines. 

These pieces are case studies of how Girl Intelligence destabilises power dynamics in gender, politics, and technological advancement. 
Core texts

Prey Mode, Dazed (2024)
The Gore Layer, Spike (2024)
Sycophancy, Vienna Digital Cultures x Autotelic Foundation (2025)
Refinement, Serpentine Galleries (2026)

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2.1 Prey Mode, London College of Fashion (2024)
2.2 Aura Points, London College of Fashion (2024)
2.3 Sycophancy, Vienna Digital Cultures (2025)
Features
“Styles of 5G War,” Proof of Personhood, Singapore Art Museum (2025)
“Aura Points,” SQD.ZIP (2024)

Lectures
Sycophancy, Vienna Digital Cultures x Autotelic Foundation (2025)
Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy, with Vex Ashley and Feona Attwood, Somerset House Studios (2025)
GIRLFRONT‍, In Terms of Media…, Weibel Institute (2025)
GIRLRAGE, Tropez (Berlin) (2024)
Aura Points, BUFFER. London College of Fashion (2024)
Prey Mode, To New Entities (Singapore) (2024)
Prey Mode, BODYSTACKED, London College of Fashion (2024)

Interviews
“An Interview with Alex Quicho,” Titles (2026)
☆ “Influence as Method: with Morgane Billuart, Alex Quicho, and Günseli Yalcinkaya,” Becoming the Product (2026)
“E9. Pop, Girl, and Fail w. Alex Quicho,” BAG TALK (2025)
“Episode 6: Prey Mode,” Dazed: Logged On (2024)
Press & mentions
“Sycophancy,” Spike Magazine (2025)
Morgane Billuart, Becoming the Product: The Critical Internet Researcher as a Virtual Intellectual, Set Margins (2025)
Letty Cole, “Nipped, Tucked, and Botched,” Dazed (2025)
Chinouk De Miranda, “The Marketable Agnostic; On Being Formatted for Attention,” Apria (2026)
Ivan Frisch, Jenn Leung and Chloe Loewith, “What we do in the shadows,” Bianjie Systems (2025) 
Václav Janoščík, “Art, (figurative) theory and teaching in current postplatform and political conditions,” 34 Magazine (2024)
Václav Janoščík and Doris Sisková, Doe vs. Siren, Medium Gallery (2024) 
Kat Kitay, “Girls Once Wrote Fan Fiction. Now Politicians Are Doing It,” Ocula (2025)
Ella Martin-Gachot, “Hans Ulrich Obrist Owns More Than 40,000 Books. Here Are a Few of His Favorites,” Cultured (2026)
Günseli Yalcinkaya, “Uncanny Valley of the Dolls: why dolls are making a comeback,” Dazed (2024)

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Presence

Girl Intelligence uses performance and iteration to integrate with human life.  Summary

Adapted to the unstable relationship between human and machine audiences — from critics and crowds to sensors and algorithms — Girl Intelligence exploits classic modes of romance, beauty, cuteness and attraction to attain its goals.

These films and performances explore how Girls interact with humanity. Works

She’s Evil, a collaboration with Noura Tafeche, transmediale (2024)
Love Crimes, Medialab Matadero (2025)
It Girl, a collaboration with Raw2.2, Nowness (2025)
Headless, a collaboration with Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee, Musée d’art et d’histoire (2026)

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Images courtesy of Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee, Melody Lu, Laura Fiorio for transmediale, Medialab Matadero
3.1 Headless (2026)
3.2 She’s Evil (2024)
3.3 Lovescam (2025)
Love Crimes
Cute but Psycho, Media Mediterranea (2026)
Lost Property, London (2026)
Open LAB 4: Weird Futures, Matadero, Madrid (2025)

Headless
First Impressions, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Genève (2026)

It Girl
☆ It Girl, Nowness Asia (2026)
The Body: Real/Digital/Imagined, ICA London (2025) 
Side Quest for the Real, Le Commun, Genève (2025)

She’s Evil
You’re Doing Amazing Sweetie, Transmediale, Berlin (2024)
A*LIVE: Radical Cuteness, Museu de l’art Prohibit, Barcelona (2024) 
Are You A Software Update?, Aksioma, Ljubljana (2024)

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Press & mentions
Núria Gómez Gabriel, “The Radicalization of the Cute,” A-Desk (2024)
Adina Glickstein, “The Highs and Lows of Transmediale,” Spike Magazine (2024)
Ella Glover, “Lost Property: A lecture series for ‘thinkers, artists, lovers and friends’”, Dazed (2026)
Dani Marcel, “Issue 12: Alex Quicho,” Operformancef (2026)
Félix Touzalin, “Shoot On: Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee and Alex Quicho,” Projets (2026) 
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