Erin Manning (born 1969) is a Canadian cultural theorist and political philosopher as well as a practicing artist in the areas of dance, fabric design, and interactive installation.
Manning's research spans the fields of art, political theory, and philosophy.
[1] Manning is founder and director of the SenseLab,[2] a research-creation laboratory affiliated with Hexagram: Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technology[3] in Montreal.
[4] They co-edit a book series at MIT Press entitled Technologies of Lived Abstraction and are founding members of the editorial collective of the Sense Lab journal Inflexions: A Journal of Research Creation.
[5] Manning frequently gives workshops and lectures at universities and other institutions, including but not limited to the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich University of the Arts) (with Brian Massumi),[6] the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee,[1] the Dance Bar (International Dance Programme) in Sweden,[7] and the University of California at Berkeley.