César Escudero Andaluz
César Escudero Andaluz (Ph.D. candidate) is an artist, researcher, and educator focused on interface criticism, digital culture, and its social and political effects. His work spans image-making, sculpture, video games, installation, networked culture, the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, interface appropriations, and media archaeology. As an educator, César has led workshops and delivered guest lectures at universities around the world; he currently teaches “Post-media Practices” and “Journal Club” in the Interfaces Cultures department at the Kunstuniversität Linz. His artworks and presentations have been featured at international electronic art events, museums, galleries, and conferences, including Ars Electronica (AT) / ZKM (DE) / Nam June Paik Art Center (KS) / WRO (PL) / Hangar.org (Spain) / KIKK (Belgium) / Aksioma (Serbia) / ADAF (Greece) / Drugo More (Croatia) / Chronus Art Center (China).
PhD project
Tactical Interface: Artistic Resistance Against Human-Machine Interaction.
My research explores the role of artists working with interfaces as active agents capable of inspiring, questioning, and visualizing emerging processes of invisibility between humans and computers. To this end, it introduces the concept of Tactical Interfaces, a critical paradigm defined as an act of resistance that seeks to warn about the unequal social, economic, and ecological implications inherent in computer interfaces in the context of key areas such as machine vision, underlying algorithms, ubiquitous interfaces, Internet infrastructures, data centers, and decentralized systems, all within the framework of the challenges posed by surveillance capitalism and dataveillance.
