Zach Blas
Zach Blas (b. Point Pleasant, West Virginia) is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose practice contends with the philosophies, fantasies, and histories that reside in computational technologies and their industries and influence Silicon Valley’s visions of the future. Working across moving image, computation, installation, theory, and performance, Blas has exhibited at venues including Vienna Secession, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, KANAL—Centre Pompidou, Walker Art Center, Twelfth Gwangju Biennale, ZKM Center for Art and Media, and Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. His 2021 artist monograph Unknown Ideals was published by Sternberg Press and Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst. He is co-editor, with Melody Jue and Jennifer Rhee, of Informatics of Domination, forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2025. Blas holds a Ph.D. from The Graduate Program in Literature at Duke University and an M.F.A. in Media Arts from University of California, Los Angeles. He previously lectured in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London and is currently Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto.
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