Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano

Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano is an artist, writer, and educator born and raised in Colombia. Through texts, audiovisual installations, and participatory workshops, his work explores the planetary relations between water ecologies and technological infrastructures. His projects weave poetic and mythical narratives based on deep historical research and post-extractive imaginaries, blurring the boundary between the technical and the magical. Juan Pablo has worked as a cultural programmer at Espacio Odeón and Plataforma Bogotá, and has been an adjunct professor at the Javeriana and Andes Universities in Bogotá (CO) and at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (NL) and the University of the Danube (AT). His work has recently been exhibited at the Institute for Postnatural Studies, Madrid (2023); Neuer Kunstverein, Giessen (DE); Jan van Eyck academie, Maastricht (2023); Porto Design Biennial with TBA-21, Porto (2023); La MaMa, New York (2023); Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (2022); International Symposium of Electronic Arts ISEA, Barcelona (2022); Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales (2021); Galería Santa Fe, Bogotá (2020); Transmediale, Berlin (2020); Ural Biennial, Ekaterinburg (2020); Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico (2019); among others.

Publications relevant to the Planetary

Books

Pacheco Bejarano, J. P.: Wet Reader. Jan van Eyck academy: Maastricht, 2023. https://www.academia.edu/116423297/Wet_reader.

Book chapters

Pacheco Bejarano, J. P.: Humid Telepathy, in Bernard, C. (ed.): Digging Earth: Extractivism and Resistance on Indigenous Lands of the Americas, pp. 292–315. Cambridge (UK): Ethics Press, 2024.

Journal articles

Pacheco Bejarano, J. P.: Fermenting & Transforming the Present. CSPA Quarterly 33, 66–83, 2021. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27110636.
Pacheco Bejarano, J. P.: Ruins across the Atlantic: Speculations on the Colonial and Mythological Genealogies of the Internet’s Submarine Infrastructure. Proceedings of Politics of the Machines-Rogue Research 2021 (POM 2021), 138–44, September 2021. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/POM2021.18.
Pacheco Bejarano, J. P.: Digital Hunters: Techno-Territories in the Age of Computational Surveillance. A Peer Reviewed Journal About (APRJA) 9(1), 42-52, 2020. https://aprja.net//article/view/121488.
Pacheco Bejarano, J. P.: Telepathy without the Internet. Journal of Visual Culture, 2020. https://jvcdispatches.com/2020/08/27/telepathy-without-internet/.
Pacheco Bejarano, J. P.: Digital Democracy, in 39Null: Freiheit, 68-75, 2019. https://www.academia.edu/62875268/Digital_Democracy_in_German.
Pacheco Bejarano, J. P. 2017. Decolonial Perspectives on Digital Arts in Africa and Latin America, Artbox Digital, June 14, 2017. https://www.academia.edu/62873007/Decolonial_perspectives_on_digital_arts_in_Africa_and_Latin_America.

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