Mark Shepard is an artist, architect and researcher whose work addresses contemporary entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power.

His book, There Are No Facts: attentive algorithms, extractive data practices and the quantification of everyday life (MIT Press in 2022) examines the uncommon ground we share in a post-truth world. He is an editor of the Situated Technologies Pamphlets Series (The Architectural League of New York) and editor of Sentient City: ubiquitous computing, architecture and the future of urban space (MIT Press, 2011).

His work has been exhibited at museums, galleries and festivals internationally, including the Venice International Architecture Biennial; the Prix Ars Electronica; Transmediale; the International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam; The Dutch Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF); Arte.Mov Festival for Mobile Media Art, São Paulo, Brazil; Haus für elektronische Künst, Basel; FACT Liverpool; the Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain; and Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York. It has been supported by Creative Capital, the European Union Culture Programme 2007-2013, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Architectural League of New York, and Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, among others.

Mark is a Professor of Architecture and Media Study at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he directs the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies (CAST). He has been a visiting researcher with the Network Architecture Lab at Studio-X, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University, and a fellow at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York.