Tecnosis is a program on technoscience and its biopolitical overflows, ignited by einaidea, Hangar and HacTe. Through the creation of intensive situations for learning and coexisting, and as an alternative to academic learning modes, Tecnosis brings together artists and researchers around common somatizations and vulnerabilities that manifest themselves both in their themes and work processes, as well as in the societal implications of their work. Through workshops and conferences, the yearly intensives unfold around specific projects or artifacts, investigating sensitive areas and points of intersection between artistic, technological, and scientific practices. Tecnosis thus seeks to observe recent approaches between art, science and technology as signs of common concerns, even ailments. Beyond mere analogies between worlds of research, this program addresses vulnerabilities and potentials, including those of science itself as a form of knowledge supposedly isolated, or at least protected, from biopolitical realities.
Open call
Workshop with Agustina Woodgate and Antonio Vega Macotela
Monday to Thursday, 8, 9, 10 and 11 December, 3:30-8pm at Hangar
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In the framework of Tecnosis, einaidea, Hangar, and HacTe invite multidisciplinary artists and researchers to two intensive workshops on the biopolitical overflows of technoscience. Led by artists Agustina Woodgate and Antonio Vega Macotela, the workshops will take place from 3:30pm to 8pm on 8, 9, 10, and 11 December at Hangar. The workshop will be followed by a public presentation, on Saturday 13 December at Hangar, at 12pm, followed by snacks.
The work of Antonio Vega Macotela (Mexico City, 1980) explores notions of labor, value, and exchange, often in collaboration with communities and in specific places. With a particular focus on the system through which social relations are established and negotiated, Vega Macotela explores alienation in economic systems and their social structures. The interactions, negotiations, and collaborations implicit in such processes are central to his research, addressing chains of equivalence that connect labor and artistic practice within a single economy. Antonio Vega Macotela has been artist and researcher in residence at the Rijksakademie Van Beldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; National Academy of Art, Oslo; Amante, New York; and most recently at ETH Zurich. His work has been presented at the 34th São Paulo Biennale (2021); Highline Art, New York (2021); 12th Taipei Biennale (2020); and documenta 14, Kassel (2017), among others. He currently resides between Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Oslo.
Agustina Woodgate (Buenos Aires, 1981) is an artist, designer, and radio producer. Her practice focuses on the study of systems, theories of value, relations, and logics of power. By tracing new cartographies that dissolve political boundaries, addressing contested materialities and interacting with displaced communities, Woodgate addresses the infrastructures, transmissions, and flows that shape today's dominant paradigms. Her works—sculptures, interventions in public space, processes of social interaction—propose the reinsertion of surpluses to pave the way for new possibilities of perception and action. Her projects have been shown at Stroom Den Haag (2024); Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts (2024); Seoul MediaCity Biennial (2023); BIENALSUR (2021); and Berlin Bienniale (2016), among others. She is co-founder of radioee.net and currently teaches at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, and Design Academy Eindhoven.
Image: Agustina Woodgate, National Times, 2019, Site-specific infrastructure: Closed circuit of 40 analog clocks, 1 digital master clock, sanding blocks, and electrical metal tubing. 2019 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art. Curators: Jane Paneta and Rujeko Hockley