Kelly Dobson is an artist and engineer who works in the realms of technology, medicine, art, and culture. Her projects involve the parapraxis of machine design—what machines do and mean for people other than the purposes for which they were consciously designed. She is currently working with machines that call into question our shiftable notions of being and care. Currently a visiting artist and assistant professor in Digital+Media at RISD, she is a research affiliate at the CAVS, and received a SMVisS from the MIT Visual Arts Program and a PhD from the Media Lab.