Unsettled Artifacts: Technological Speculations from Latin America: Introduction

Experimental Foundation Studies, Rhode Island School of Design, 2 College Street, Providence, RI 02903, U.S.A., pgaetano@risd.edu

Paula Gaetano Adi is a visual artist and Associate Professor of Experimental Foundation Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her practice draws from study of technoscience, postcolonialism, and artificial life, and her performance and robotic work has been exhibited and showcased extensively in museums, conferences, and art festivals throughout Europe, Asia, South America, and North America. She earned an MFA in Art Technology from The Ohio State University, was a Visiting Scholar at UCLA REMAP, Visiting Professor at UNTREF Electronic Arts in Buenos Aires, and Artist-in-Residence at EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the recipient of the First Prize VIDA 9.0, Argentina’s National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and Fundación Telefónica’s Art Artificial Life Award for Ibero-American artists. Recent publications include “Mestizo Robotics” in Leonardo, and the co-edited special issue of Media-N, “Mestizo Technology: Art, Design, and Technoscience in Latin America.”