Workshop with Elisa Giardina Papa and Zach Blas

HacTe, along with its members Hangar and einaidea, is organizing an intensive workshop with artists Elisa Giardina Papa and Zach Blas. The workshop will be conducted in English on December 12, 13 and 14, and will reflect on the current modes of digital automation of knowledge, emotions, and creative processes, as well as the forms of resistance, disruption, and questioning that can emerge from artistic practices. Two half-day working sessions will lead to a public event on the third day, featuring a sharing session, presentation of practices, and a roundtable discussion at Hangar.

Zach Blas (West Virginia, USA, 1981) is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose work examines the materiality of digital technologies through video, computing, theory, performance, and science fiction. His projects investigate the philosophies and imaginaries lurking within artificial intelligence, biometric recognition, predictive surveillance, airport security, the internet, and biological warfare. He has exhibited and lectured at venues including Tate Modern (London), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), the Gwangju Biennale, Berlinale (Berlin), Matadero (Madrid), and ZKM (Karlsruhe), among others.

Elisa Giardina Papa (Medicina, Italy, 1979) is an artist whose work explores gender, sexuality, and labor in relation to neoliberal capitalism and the borders of the Global South. Her work has been featured at the 59th Venice Biennale, MoMA’s Modern Mondays (New York), the Whitney Museum (New York), Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2018, XVI Quadriennale di Roma, Flaherty (New York), UnionDocs (New York), and ICA Milan, among others. She has lectured at institutions such as the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women (Brown University), the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (McGill University), and the Global Emergent Media Lab (Concordia University), among others.

Practical Information
Dates: December 12, 13 and 14
Time: Thursday 12th and Friday 13th from 3 to 8 pm (closed spots). Saturday open and free session from 6 pm (no prior registration required).
Location: Hangar
Language: English

Activity carried out with the support of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Image: Elisa Giardina Papa, Technologies of Care, 2016. Video still courtesy of the artist.