Julian Oliver is an electronic artist, educator, and activist. His work has been exhibited at numerous museums, festivals, and galleries worldwide, among them Transmediale, Ars Electronica, the Vienna Biennale, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Lectures related to his work and ideas have been presented at many conferences and universities internationally, including The Chaos Communication Congress, Tate Modern, Princeton University, and the ZKM in Karlsruhe.

Oliver has received several awards, most notably the distinguished Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project Newstweek with Daniil Vasiliev. He is the co-author of the Critical Engineering Manifesto and member of the Critical Engineering Working Group. Oliver has delivered workshops and masterclasses in data forensics, creative hacking, computer networking, counter-surveillance, data sovereignty, system administration, software art, object-oriented programming, operational security, radio, UNIX/Linux, and disaster-tolerant communications worldwide.