The Long Progress Bar 2015, part of Brighton Digital Festival – Zach Blas
THE LONG PROGRESS BAR 2015 Mixing talks, screenings, workshops and live music performances, this two-day festival unites international creatives, thinkers and radical change-makers shaping our world through contemporary art, music, design, technology, economics and social innovation. The work of artist and writer Zach Blas engages technology, queerness and politics to respond to technological control. Blas has exhibited internationally including at the Museum of Arts and Design Biennial, New York, and transmediale, Berlin, and was in 2014 selected by Hito Steyerl as a 2014 Future Great in Art Review. His projects include Facial Weaponization Suite and Face Cages, which explore the inequalities technologies propagate. His current work Contra-Internet, is oriented from a feminist and queer perspective and unites these political positions with a hacker ethos. The aim – to function as a framework for refusing the neoliberal logic of ‘the Internet’, while building alternatives to its infrastructure. Blas has published writings in Queer: Documents of Contemporary Art (The MIT Press and Whitechapel), The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest; You are Here: Art after the Internet (Cornerhouse Books); DIS Magazine; Women Studies Quarterly (The Feminist Press); and co-edited The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (Atropos Press). Currently, he is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.
THE LONG PROGRESS BAR 2015 Mixing talks, screenings, workshops and live music performances, this two-day festival unites international creatives, thinkers and radical change-makers shaping our world through contemporary art, music, design, technology, economics and social innovation. The work of artist and writer Zach Blas engages technology, queerness and politics to respond to technological control. Blas has exhibited internationally including at the Museum of Arts and Design Biennial, New York, and transmediale, Berlin, and was in 2014 selected by Hito Steyerl as a 2014 Future Great in Art Review. His projects include Facial Weaponization Suite and Face Cages, which explore the inequalities technologies propagate. His current work Contra-Internet, is oriented from a feminist and queer perspective and unites these political positions with a hacker ethos. The aim – to function as a framework for refusing the neoliberal logic of ‘the Internet’, while building alternatives to its infrastructure. Blas has published writings in Queer: Documents of Contemporary Art (The MIT Press and Whitechapel), The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest; You are Here: Art after the Internet (Cornerhouse Books); DIS Magazine; Women Studies Quarterly (The Feminist Press); and co-edited The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (Atropos Press). Currently, he is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.