Deep Lab is a feminist collaborative composed of artists, engineers, hackers, writers, and theorists. It was founded in 2014 by Addie Wagenknecht under a Warhol Foundation Grant at The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University under the direction of Golan Levin.
The collaborative aims to develop research around themes in digital culture, including privacy, anonymity, security, and big data aggregation. The name Deep Lab is a nod to the Deep Web, the mysterious, hidden portion of the internet beyond the reach of standard search engines, and estimated to be many orders of magnitude greater in size.
Deep Lab members are Addie Wagenknecht, Claire L. Evans, Jillian York, Kate Crawford, Lindsay Howard, Lorrie Cranor, Allison Burtch, Harlo Holmes, Ingrid Burrington, Julia Kaganskiy, Madeleine Varner, Maral Pourkazemi, Runa Sandvik, Simone Browne, Denise Caruso, Jen Lowe, and Joana Varon.