Jara Rocha works across situated and complex forms of distribution of the technological with an antifa and trans*feminist sensibility. They tend to find themselves in tasks of remediation, editing, action-research and in(ter)dependent curating. Their main areas of experimentation involve the semiotic-material conditions of possibility for regenerative justice.
With Femke Snelting they have published the book "Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence" (Open Humanities Press, 2022) and with Helen Pritchard they work on the projects The Underground Division and Queering Damage. With Karl Moubarak and Cristina Cochior they conform the Cell for Digital Discomfort (BAK fellowship, 2022).
Jara is an associate member of The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest. They live in Barcelona, where they develop their pedagogical practice at EINA and ESCAC; they are the 2023 Fellow of InfraMantenimiento at Hangar / La Virreina with the project LaaS (Life as a Service), and are also part of the curatorial team of La Capella. Their show "Naturoculturas son Disturbios" is broadcasted erratically on the local radio Dublab.
Publications
- [Book, volume edited with Femke Snelting] Volumetric Regimes. Material cultures of Quantified Presence (Open Humanities Press, 2022).
- [Chapter, co-written with Joana Moll] Tilt the Scroll to Repair. Efficient Inhuman Workforce at Global Chains of Care. MIT Press, 2022
- [Editorial, co-written with Karl Moubarak and Cristina Cochior] On Digital Discomfort, 2022
- [Capítol, coescrit amb Femke Snelting] So-called plants, 2021
- [Article, coescrit amb Martino Morandi] From de-schooling to re-instruction: a couple of scenes of techno-political transformation in learning environments, L'Internationale, 2021
- [Article, co-written with Femke Snelting and Helen Pritchard] We Have Always Been Geohackers. In: Annike Haas; Maximilian Haas; Hanna Magauer and Dennis Pohl, eds. How to Relate: Knowledges, Arts, Practices. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2020