Joshua Simon is a curator and writer, lecturer at the Department of Media Theory  at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He completed his PhD at the visual cultures department at Goldsmiths College, in London. In 2013 he became director and chief curator at MoBY-Museums of Bat Yam, Tel Aviv. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Tel Aviv University, Shenkar College of Design and at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, where he was also research fellow 2023-2024.

He was inaugural Impulse visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (2024). His current research deals with the shift from social reproduction to metabolic synchronization under the digital regime. Among his exhibitions are The First Herzliya Biennial (2007), The Kids Want Communism (2016-2018), In The Liquid (2018), and Slime at Secession Vienna (2024). Simon held fellowships at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, NYC, and the Academy of the Arts of The World in Cologne. Simon is the author of Neomaterialism (Sternberg Press, 2013), and the editor of numerous titles, among them, United States of Palestine-Israel (Sternberg Press, 2011), Being Together Precedes Being: A Textbook for The Kids Want Communism (Archive Books, 2019), and co-editor of Communists Anonymous (Sternberg Press, 2017).

Currently, he is finishing editing The Digital Revolution as Counter-Revolution (B_books), as well as working on the manuscript of a new authored book titled Metastability.