Jan Groos
Jan Groos is a researcher, filmmaker and podcaster. He studied fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and completed his PhD in sociology on 'Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Algorithmic Governance' at the Centre for Sociological Theory (Kiel University). Jan is the director of the MediaLab at the University of Salzburg. He is an affiliated researcher at the research cluster digital_cultures at Fernuniversität Hagen and the Critical Data Lab at Humboldt University Berlin. In 2020 he visited The Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society as a research fellow and has stayed at the Remarque Institute (NYU) as a TEFE visiting fellow in fall 2024. Jan runs the podcast Future Histories as part of his research practice.
In 2025 Jan founded the Future Histories LAB as a logical extension of the podcast, aiming to transform the ideas explored in the many interviews into collaborative and practice-oriented projects pursuing radical imagination and practical experimentation around postcapitalist construction.
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