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Zach Blas

Born 1981 - West Virgina, United States

Zach Blas is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose practice spans technical investigation, theoretical research, conceptualism, performance, and science fiction. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Blas has exhibited, lectured, and held screenings internationally, recently at the Walker Art Center, 2018 Gwangju Biennale, the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, Matadero Madrid, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art in General, Gasworks, Van Abbemuseum, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, e-flux, Whitechapel Gallery, ZKM Center for Art and Media, and Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. Recent works have addressed biometric capture, time travel, policing as mysticism, the crystals balls of Silicon Valley, and dildos. His practice has been supported by a Creative Capital award in Emerging Fields, the Arts Council England, and Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst. Blas’s writings can be found in the collections You Are Here: Art After the Internet, Documentary Across Disciplines, Queer: Documents of Contemporary Art, and e-flux journal. His work has been written about and featured in Artforum, Frieze, ArtReview, Mousse Magazine, The Guardian, and The New York Times. Blas is a 2018-20 UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Leadership Fellow.


Available Titles by Zach Blas

Title Year Runtime Collection
Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #1: Constituting an Outside (Utopian Plagiarism) 2015 00:05:58 Single Titles
Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #2: Social Media Exodus (Call and Response) 2015 00:03:21 Single Titles
Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #3: Modeling Paranodal Space 2016 00:03:02 Single Titles
Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033 2018 00:30:52 Single Titles
Facial Weaponization Communiqué: Fag Face 2012 00:08:11 Single Titles

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