Zach Blas is an artist, filmmaker, writer, and Assistant Professor of Visual Studies in the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. His practice spans moving image, computation, theory, performance, and science fiction. Recent exhibitions include British Art Show 9, Positions #6, Van Abbemuseum; Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI at the de Young Museum; The Body Electric at the Walker Art Center; the 2018 Gwangju Biennale; and the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. His 2021 artist monograph Unknown Ideals is published by Sternberg Press.
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- 28.01.22.14:10– 15:30Fantasy and Damage
with Antonia Hernández, Tatjana Söding, Donal Lally, Zach Blas, Adam Bobbette, Laura Cugusi
- 31.01.15.16:00– 17:30‘Becoming Fog’: practices of obfuscation for the datafying world
with Zach Blas, Mushon Zer-Aviv, Heather Dewey-Hagborg
- Conference
HKW / HKW – K1 - 04.02.12.13:30– 15:30Commercialising Eros
with Aliya Rakhmetova, Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Kate Ehrhardt, Jacob Appelbaum, Zach Blas, Gaia Novati
- Talk
HKW / HKW – K1 - 30.01.15.11:00– 12:30Datafied Research: Capture People
with Lea Muldtofte Olsen, Ellen Pearlman, Mitra Azar, Ned Rossiter, Søren Pold, Daniel C. Howe, Silvio Lorusso, Sebastian Schmieg, Mercedes Bunz, Zach Blas, Jane Prophet
- Conference
HKWCafé Stage - 01.02.12.10:30– 16:00in/compatible research practices
with Christian Ulrik Andersen, César Baio, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Thomas Bjørnsten, Zach Blas, Morten Breinbjerg, Geoff Cox, Baruch Gottlieb, Magnus Lawrie, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Rosa Menkman, Gabriel Menotti Gonring, Morten Riis, Lasse Scherffig, Marie Thompson, Nina Wenhart, Carolin Wiedemann, Robert Jackson, Andrew Prior
- Meeting
- Talk
- Workshop
HKW / HKW – K1 - 02.02.18.13:00– 14:00Reimagine the Internet: Affect, Velocity, Excess
with Zach Blas, Aria Dean
- Discussion
HKW - Lecture Hall - 12.09.14.16:00reSource 006: Overflow
with Tatiana Bazzichelli, Carsten Lisecki, Mathias Fuchs, Marcus Bastos, Julian Oliver, Daphne Dragona, Harry Sanderson, Vera Tollmann, Anthony Iles, Josephine Berry Slater, Zach Blas, John Wild, Rozsa Farkas, Ricard Gras, Telekommunisten (Baruch Gottlieb, Dmytri Kleiner), David Gauthier, Jamie Allen
- reSource
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien - 12.09.13.16:00reSource 006: Overflow
with Carsten Lisecki, Mathias Fuchs, Paolo Ruffino, Marcus Bastos, Julian Oliver, Daphne Dragona, Harry Sanderson, Vera Tollmann, Anthony Iles, Josephine Berry Slater, Zach Blas, John Wild, Rozsa Farkas, Ricard Gras, Telekommunisten (Baruch Gottlieb, Dmytri Kleiner), David Gauthier, Jamie Allen, Tatiana Bazzichelli
- 03.02.18.20:00– 21:00Unpacking Contra-Internet: Metric Mysticism
with Zach Blas
- Artist Presentation
HKW - Exhibition Hall 1
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Discussion – Becoming Fog
Introduction by D. Dragona, Z. Blas and presentation by M. Zer-Aviv – Becoming Fog
"Face Cages" by Zach Blas
Zach Blas (left) and Aria Dean (right) at the discussion "Reimagine the Internet: Affect, Velocity, Excess"
Zach Blas (left) and Aria Dean (right) at the discussion "Reimagine the Internet: Affect, Velocity, Excess"
Zach Blas (left) and Aria Dean (right) at the discussion "Reimagine the Internet: Affect, Velocity, Excess"
Zach Blas (left) and Aria Dean (right) at the discussion "Reimagine the Internet: Affect, Velocity, Excess"- Unpacking Contra-Internet: Metric Mysticism
- Reimagine the Internet: Affect, Velocity, Excess