Daniel García Andújar
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Daniel García Andújar is a visual media artist, activist and art theorist from Spain
. He lives and works in Barcelona. His work has been exhibited widely, including Manifesta
4 and the Venice Biennale
. He has directed numerous workshops for artists and social collectives worldwide.
, founder of Technologies To The People and a member of irational.org. The most prominent projects in this sphere would be the Street Access Machine (1996), a machine allowing those begging in the street to access digital money; The Body Research Machine (1997), an interactive machine that scanned the body’s DNA strands, processing them for scientific experiments, and x-devian by knoppix, an open-source operating system presented as part of the Individual Citizen Republic Project: The System (2003) project. Another course the work takes would be the critical reflection on the art world TTTP presents through the Technologies to the People Foundation with its collections distributed free of charge—Photo Collection (1997), Video Collection (1998) and Net Art Classics Collection (1999)—already calling the idea of material and intellectual property into question during this period. Andújar is the director of numerous internet projects, such as e-sevilla, e-valencia, e-madrid and e-barcelona.
Spain
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. He lives and works in Barcelona. His work has been exhibited widely, including Manifesta
Manifesta
Manifesta, the , is a European pan-regional contemporary cultural biennale, described in 2010 by the as "stunning in its scope and uncompromisingly experimental in its approach".-Manifesta History:...
4 and the Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
. He has directed numerous workshops for artists and social collectives worldwide.
His Work
Andújar is one of the principal exponents of Net.artNet.art
"net.art" refers to a group of artists who worked in the medium of Internet art from 1994. The main members of this movement are Vuk Ćosić, Jodi.org, Alexei Shulgin, Olia Lialina, and Heath Bunting...
, founder of Technologies To The People and a member of irational.org. The most prominent projects in this sphere would be the Street Access Machine (1996), a machine allowing those begging in the street to access digital money; The Body Research Machine (1997), an interactive machine that scanned the body’s DNA strands, processing them for scientific experiments, and x-devian by knoppix, an open-source operating system presented as part of the Individual Citizen Republic Project: The System (2003) project. Another course the work takes would be the critical reflection on the art world TTTP presents through the Technologies to the People Foundation with its collections distributed free of charge—Photo Collection (1997), Video Collection (1998) and Net Art Classics Collection (1999)—already calling the idea of material and intellectual property into question during this period. Andújar is the director of numerous internet projects, such as e-sevilla, e-valencia, e-madrid and e-barcelona.
Exhibitions
- 2006 - Postcapital, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
- 2008 - Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System – Art in the Age of Intellectual Property. Postcapital Archive. Hartware MedienKunstVerein, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, Germany. Curated by: Inke ArnsInke ArnsInke Arns is an independent curator and author. After having held positions at Humboldt University in Berlin, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zürich and Piet Zwart Institut in Rotterdam, she has been the artistic director of Hartware...
and Francis Hunger - 2008 - Unrecorded, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey. Curated by Basak Senova
- 2008 - Herramientas del arte. Relecturas (Tools of Art: Re-readings), Parpalló, Valencia. With Rogelio López Cuenca and Isidoro Valcárcel Medina,, Curated by: Álvaro de los Ángeles. Spain
- 2008 -Banquete_nodos y redes. LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación IndustrialLABoral Centro de Arte y Creación IndustrialLABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial is an exhibition centre in Gijón, Spain, for art, science, technology and advanced visual industries...
, Gijón, Curated by: Karin Ohlenschläger. Spain - 2008 -The Wonderful World of irational.org: Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006. Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad. Curators: Inke Arns (Dortmund) and Jacob Lillemose (Kopenhagen). Serbia
- 2009 - Postcapital. Archive 1989 - 2001, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart. Curated by Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ
- 2009 - Postcapital (Mauer), Museum for Modern Art, Bremen, Germany. Curated by Dr. Anne Thurmann-Jajes
- 2009 - Subversive Praktiken, Württembergischer Kunstverein , Stuttgart
- 2009 - Postcapital Archive. The Unavowable Community. Catalan Pavilion, 53. Biennale, Venize. Curated by Valentin Roma
- 2009 - Postcapital Archive (1989–2001), Iberia Art Center, Beijing. Curated by Valentin Roma
- 2010 - Postkapital Arşiv 1989-2001 Sedat Yazici Riva Foundation for Education, Culture and Art, Istanbul Curated by Basak Senova
- 2010 - BARCELONA – VALÈNCIA – PALMA. A History of Confluence and Divergence. Objects of desire. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain. Curated by Ignasi Aballí, Melcior Comes and Vicent Sanchis
- 2010 - Postcapital Archive (1989–2001) . Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea. Curated by Nathalie Boseul Shin and Hans D. Christ
- 2010 -Postcapital Archive (1989–2001) La comunidad inconfesable, Bòlit, Centre d’Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain. Curated by Valentín Roma
- 2010 -The Wall. Postcapital Archive (1989–2001), Espai Visor, Valencia