Asia Bazdyrieva is a researcher and writer with a background in art history and analytical chemistry. Her work focuses on the relationship between sociotechnical imaginaries and bodies and lands that are rendered as resources. Bazdyrieva was a Fulbright Fellow at CUNY in 2015–2017; and a research fellow in the department of Media Studies at the Bauhaus-University Weimar in 2023-24. She is an associate member of the Critical Media Lab Basel.