Thinking Through Form: Meet the 2013 JWTC Participants

Zach Blas

Zach Blas, Mask-Wearer

Zach Blas is an artist-theorist whose work engages technology, queerness, politics, and experimental research. He is the creator of art group Queer Technologies, a founding member of The Public School Durham, and a PhD candidate in The Graduate Program in Literature, Information Science + Information Studies, and Visual Studies at Duke University. Zach has recently exhibited and lectured at  Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico; The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada; Center for 21st Century Studies, Milwaukee, WI; Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA; The HTMlles, Montreal, Canada; Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain; MIX NYC, New York; transmediale, Berlin, Germany; and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, where he co-curated the 2011 group exhibition Speculative. Zach has published writings in Leper Creativity, No More Potlucks, Rhizome, Version, Women Studies Quarterly, and co-edited The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities. He holds a Master of Fine Art,  Design Media Arts, University of California Los Angeles. www.zachblas.info