Réka Gál is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto and a Fellow at the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology. She has completed her master’s in Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her main research interests are in feminist media theory, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, and anthropology of outer space. In her dissertation project, she investigates contemporary outer space colonial initiatives, focusing on the implications of human-machine interdependence in outer space as it relates to issues of sustainability and environmental justice.