Anna Brynskov

Design Researcher and PhD fellow

IT University of Copenhagen, DK

~ Part of AIR Lab + ETHOS Lab ~

E-mail: abry@itu.dk / LinkedIn / Orcid / Instagram

Keywords in research:

HCI, sexuality, disability,

interaction design, cyberfeminism,

digital aesthetics & digital culture

Co-organized Body Politics workshop at CHI'25 in Yokohama, Japan. See artwork

Nominated for and offered Fulbright Scholarship for research stay at Northeastern University in Boston, USA fall 2025.

Exhibited two films (+ zine)

during FemTech + Feminist Tech at KTH,

Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.


Watch them on Vimeo:

Together at a Distance with Sirena

+

The Polyphonic AI Hat

Publication: Sex, Disability & HCI

by Gopinaath Kannabiran and Anna Brynskov

Supervised two bachelor projects in the Digital Design program at ITU. Spring 2025

Position Paper DIS'2024:

How can we design sexual technologies

that touch well?

MA Thesis on Technologies, Female Sexuality and Critical Optimism (2020)

Film productions on

Vimeo channel.

ABOUT

Anna Brynskov is a Danish researcher and filmmaker. Her research is about inventing critical yet joy-spreading design approaches to digital futures of sexuality. She studies intimacy, feelings, bodies, and social relations through queer, crip, and cyberfeminist lenses with various materials of expression and on various channels of communication.


Her academic background includes a B.A. degree in Comparative Literature and an M.A. degree in Digital Design (Information Technology) from Aarhus University. Her artistic background includes diplomas from the film schools Potemkin Film College (1 semester) and Station Next Aarhus (3 years) where she specialized as film director. Finally, she studied electronic music composition and analogue photography at Engelsholm Højskole. Occassionally, she publishes poems and organizes public events.