Fabian Offert's research and teaching focuses on the digital/computational humanities, with a special interest in the epistemology and aesthetics of computer vision and machine learning. His current book project looks at Machine Visual Culture in the age of foundation models. He is principal investigator of the international research project "AI Forensics" (2022-25), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, and was principal investigator of the UCHRI multi campus research group "Critical Machine Learning Studies" (2021-22), which aimed to establish a materialist perspective on artificial intelligence. Before joining the faculty at UCSB, he served as postdoctoral researcher in the German Research Foundation’s special interest group "The Digital Image", associated researcher in the Critical Artificial Intelligence Group (KIM) at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, and Assistant Curator at ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany.