Artist, filmmaker and writer Zach Blas engages with technologies of surveillance and control through the lens of queer and feminist politics. Primarily working in film and video, Blas creates works that explore the alternatives to dominating structures, be it the Internet transforming into a tool for totalitarian oppression (Contra-Internet, 2015-2019) or the gendered politics of face recognition technologies (im here to learn so :)))))), 2017). Combining the dystopia of contemporary forms of control, hiding in devices of artificial intelligence, biological warfare or airport security, with queer and feminist theory, Blas considers the notion of the outside, of all that which does not comply with the established, Western normativity. It is through the idea of the outside that he uses his artistic practice to find the alternatives or, in the artist’s words, “the horizon of possibility”. For Blas, his artistic practice -  comprising immersive, psychedelic films, performative lectures and academic writing -  is an open space for queer utopia.

Gwangju Biennial

Gwangju

Dak’Art

Dakar

Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi Art

Los Angeles

Honor Fraser

Donostia / San Sebastián

Tabakalera

San Francisco

De Young Museum

Vienna

Kunsthalle Wien

Mcevoy Foundation For The Arts

Eindhoven

Van Abbemuseum

Yerba Buena Center For The Arts

Minneapolis

Walker Art Center

Seoul

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul

Houston

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Karlsruhe

The Zkm

Rome

Maxxi

Chicago

Mca Chicago

London

Gasworks

Whitechapel Gallery

Paris

Jeu De Paume

Providence

Risd Museum

Philadelphia

Ica Philadelphia

New York City

New Museum of Contemporary Art

Royal College of Art

Art In General

Moscow

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Detroit

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

Madrid

Matadero Madrid – Centro De Creación Contemporánea

Zach Blas

Delfina Foundation

Amsterdam

Rijksakademie

San Diego

University Of California, San Diego (Ucsd)

Durham

Duke University

School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago (Saic)

Goldsmiths, University Of London

Toronto

University Of Toronto

Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033 

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Totality Study #1: Internet, a definition