Zane Griffin Talley Cooper (he/him) is an assistant professor of digital media and film at St. Lawrence University. A multimodal scholar with a passion for sustainability, his work broadly concerns the intersections and relations between data infrastructures, energy production, and resource extraction in the Arctic. He has previously held positions at Intel, the Civic Software Foundation, and the McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, where, in various capacities, he has explored the nexus of technology and environmental justice.

Zane’s work has found its way into journals, art exhibits, design projects, film festivals, and he is the co-author of Digital Energetics, published by the University of Minnesota Press. Through a grant from the Internet Society Foundation, he and his research team published an expansive multimedia exhibition entitled Geographies of Digital Wasting: Electronic Waste From Mine to Discard and Back Again, which has shown at the University of Pennsylvania, Virginia Tech, and online. 

At St. Lawrence University, Zane teaches a range of courses including Introduction to Digital Media and Film, Environmental Media, and Mediamaking for Climate Action. He is currently working on a 360-video project and multimedia installation about the specter of rare earth mining in South Greenland.