artist
Jara Rocha
last update
02-12-2024
Jara Rocha (they/them) works across situated and complex forms of distribution of the technological with an enebé, antifa and trans*feminist sensibility. They tend to find themself in tasks of writing, remediation, editing, action-research and in(ter)dependent curating. Their main areas of experimentation have to do with the semiotic-material conditions of possibility for regenerative justice. They are an associate member of The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (https://titipi.org/). With Femke Snelting they published the book "Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence" (Open Humanities Press, 2022) and with Helen Pritchard they worked on the projects The Underground Division and Queering Damage. With Karl Moubarak and Cristina Cochior they form the Digital Discomfort Working Group (fellowship for situated practice BAK, 2021-22), and with Nicolas Malevé they co-edited the 23rd issue of the journal Concreta, under the title "The Active Composition of Presence". They were also 2023 InfraMaintenance Fellow at Hangar / La Virreina with the project LaaS (Life as a Service), and are an active part of the curatorial team of La Capella. Previously they have circulated their work in contexts as diverse as Constant Association for Arts and Media, Varia Center for Everyday Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sonic Acts, Centro Cultural de España en Lima, ZEMOS98, LUMA Arles, Goldsmiths University of London, Linnaeus University, Sandberg Instituut, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Guggenheim Bilbao or transmediale. They live in Barcelona, where they develop their pedagogical practice at ESCAC and their program "Naturoculturas son Disturbios" is erratically broadcasted from the local radio Dublab. jararocha.blogspot.com
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