Primavera De Filippi is a Research Director at the National Center of Scientific Research in Paris, and Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard.
Her research focuses on the legal challenges and opportunities of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence. She is the co-author of the book Blockchain and the Law, published in 2018 by Harvard University Press, and Blockchain Governance, published in 2024 by MIT Press. Founding member of the Global Future Council on Blockchain Technologies at the World Economic Forum, she is the founder and coordinator of the U.N. Internet Governance Forum’s dynamic coalitions on Blockchain Technology (COALA). Primavera is also an artist, using blockchain and AI to create synthetic lifeforms that evolve and replicate in symbiosis with humans. Her practice interrogates governance, autonomy, the legal personhood of machines and the rules that bind (or liberate) them. She bridges legal theory, governance research, and artistic experimentation to ask: what does it mean for a machine to have agency, rights, and a life of its own? Her works have been exposed in various museums, galleries and art fairs around the world including Art Basel, Art Dubai, Ars Electronica, Centre Pompidou, Grand Palais, Gaité Lyrique, Gazelli Art House, Artverse, as well as festivals such as Burning Man and Fusion Festival.
