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 game, installation, networked culture, IoT, robotics, interface appropriations and media archaeology. As an educator, César has given workshops and university guest lectures worldwide; he is actually teaching Post-media Practices and Journal Club in Interfaces Cultures department at the Kunstuniversität Linz. His artworks and conferences have been shown in international electronic-art events, museums, galleries and conferences, including Ars Electronica (at) / ZKM (de) / Nam June Paik Art Center (Ks) / WRO (pl) / Hangar.org (sp) / KIKK (be) / Aksioma (svn) / ADAF (gr) / Drugo More (Cr) / Chronus Art Center (chn).
PhD project
Tactical Interface: Artistic Resistance Against the 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 to computer interfaces in the context of key areas such as machine vision, underlying algorithms, ubiquitous interfaces, Internet infrastructures, data centers and decentralized systems, framed within the challenges of surveillance capitalism and dataveillance.
