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Joana Moll

Joana Moll is an artist and researcher based in Barcelona. Her work critically explores the way post-capitalist narratives affect the alphabetization of machines, humans and ecosystems. Her main research topics include environmental impact of communication technologies, Internet infrastructures, surveillance and language. She has presented her work in several venues and publications around the world. Furthermore, she is a member of the transdisciplinary research project Antiatlas des Frontières and co-founder of The Institute for the Advancement of popular automatisms.  Currently she is a researcher in residence at HANGAR and a visiting lecturer at VIT lab in Vic, Barcelona. Her work is available at janavirgin.com.

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A cluster of screenshots of bugs and microprocessors

Interview with Joana Moll
Marloes de Valk Joana Moll
2021-10
Joana Moll and Marloes de Valk discuss Joana’s project 4004, commissioned in 2021. Digging into the infrastructures at the heart of today’s digital technology, they discuss the role of art in the transition to a less polluting society.
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4004
Joana Moll
2021-07
4004 creates a link between the explosion of techno-capitalism, the acceleration of climate change and resulting decline of essential ecosystems.
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AZ: MOVE AND GET SHOT
Joana Moll
2016-11
A net-based work created entirely by algorithms that have been automatically collecting images of six surveillance cameras placed on the US/Mexico Border from 2011 until 2014.
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