Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano (Bogotá, 1991) is a visual artist and writer driven by questions about the interdependence of technology, territory, and ecology, seeking to imagine media beyond extraction. Through texts, audiovisual projects, and participatory laboratories, his research delves into the historical, material, and poetic relationships between technological infrastructures and other planetary systems. Juan Pablo has taught in Colombia and the Netherlands, and is currently a resident at the Jan Van Eyck Academy.
Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano (Bogotá, 1991) es un artista visual y escritor atravesado por preguntas sobre el entramado entre la tecnología, el territorio y la ecología, buscando imaginar medios más allá de la extracción. A través de textos, proyectos audiovisuales y laboratorios participativos, su investigación profundiza en las relaciones históricas, materiales y poéticas entre las infraestructuras tecnológicas y otros sistemas planetarios. Juan Pablo ha enseñado en Colombia y los Países Bajos, y actualmente es residente en la Academia Jan Van Eyck.
EDUCATION
2019 — 2021 > Master of Arts (MA) in Media Arts Cultures. Erasmus Joint Masters Program. Danube University (Austria), Aalborg University (Denmark), and University of Łódź (Poland)
2014 — 2016 > Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in studio art. San Francisco Art Institute (USA)
2010 — 2014 > Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Film Studies and Cultural Studies. Connecticut College (USA)
2012 > Semester at the Anthropology and Film departments at Paris VII – Denis Diderot (France)
WORK AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023 > Adjunct professor. Royal Academy of Art (The Hague, The Netherlands)
2017-2022 > Adjunct professor. Visual Arts Department. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia)
2022 > Adjunct professor. Digital Narratives Department. Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia)
2019-2022 > Programming coordinator. Espacio Odeón (Bogotá, Colombia)
2017-2019 > Project coordinator. Plataforma Bogotá (Bogotá, Colombia)
2016-2019> Curator and assessor. Artbox Digital (Dakar, Senegal)
2015 – 2016 > Archivist, video producer, and advisor. Ohlone Profiles Project (San Francisco, USA)
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2022-2023 > Residency at the Jan Van Eyck academy (The Netherlands)
2021 > PACT Zollverein JUNCTIONS 21 research fellowship (Germany)
2020 > Summer School residency with laagencia at Rib, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
2019 > Erasmus Joint Masters scholarship (Austria, Denmark, and Poland)
2014 > San Francisco Art Institute institutional scholarship (USA)
2014 > COLFUTURO and PROIMÁGENES scholarship (Colombia)
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS
2022
> “Cables, ruins and myth”, at the 12th Cultural Studies Association conference in Lisbon (Portugal)
> “Tecnologías húmedas”, at the Festival Internacional de la Imagen in Bogotá’s Planetarium (Colombia)
> “Environmental identities at the ocean floor”. With Bruno Alves de Almeida at the Oceans as Archives conference, at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
> “Ruins under the Atlantic: cables, frontiers and ruins”. At the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) in Barcelona and at Espacio de Todo in Madrid (Spain)
> “When technology becomes a ruin on the ocean floor”. At Rossella Biscotti’s exhibition The Joruney. Curated by Daniel Blanga- Gubay at Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (Belgium)
> “Technoterritories: cables, screens and water”. Lecture and workshop as a guest professor at the Willem de Kooning Academy (WDKA), Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
2021
> “Telepathy without the internet” (min. 10:30) at the School of Telepathy curated by Daniel Blanga Gubbay for the Ural Biennial, Yekaterinburg (Russia)
> Artist talk + workshop on mythology and technological infrastructures. At a.pass, Brussels (Belgium)
> Artist talk on cables, bunkers, ruins, and myth. At varia, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
> “Derivas submarinas” con Enar de Dios Rodríguez en LABoral: Centro de arte y creación industrial (Spain)
> “Telepathic and decolonial speculations around technoscience”. Schizo-Shamanic Alliances. Module supported by L’École Universitaire de recherche ArTeC (Colombia-France)
2020
> “Wet Networks_Oceans, telepathy, and technology”. Assembly at IMPACT20: Planetary Alliances (Germany)
> “Especulaciones materialistas desde la basura electrónica a los fermentos”. Con Sensolab. Do lixo ao arquivo: de imagens, restos e coisas. ACHO: Arquivo Coleções de Historias Ordinarias (Brasil)
> “Redes Acuosas_Especulaciones eco-tecnológicas”. Seminario internacional: Rutas para apreciar la realidad y hacer-se efectiva: imagen, oralidad, danza y ciencia ficción. UNAM (México)
> “Telepatía sin internet”. Junto con Barbara Santos, Juan Cortés y Santiago Arcila. N-menos1 (Colombia)
> “Net art hoy”. Seminario creación medios digitales. Banco de la República (Colombia)
> “Hunting Networks”. PhD Workshop on Research Networks (min 18:30). Transmediale (Germany)
2017
> “Archivos digitales, el agua y la (re)significación del espacio virtual”. I Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Arte y Cultura (Uruguay)
2016
> “Archivos digitales: espacios virtuales, condiciones materiales y la inestabilidad del conocimiento”. I Banal de Arquitectura. CAMPO (Colombia)
SELECTED SHOWS
2022
> Tecnologías húmedas, curated by me for the Festival de la Imagen. Planetario de Bogotá (Colombia)
> Digilogue Summit 2022. Zorlu Performing Arts Center. Istanbul (Turkey)
> Fracaso, Curated by Iñaki Chávarri Urrutia. ARTBO sede Chapinero (Colombia)
> Possibles, official selection of short films for the Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA), Barcelona (Spain)
2021
> JUNCTIONS21: Urgent Translations. At PACT Zollverein in Essen (Germany)
> Artifacts. Curated by Barbara S. Krulik and Mildred Durán. Galería Casa Hoffman (Colombia)
> Waters of Change. Disappearing Dialogues Collective and Media Art South Asia (India+UK)
> Video selection for Interespecies: Festival Internacional de la Imagen de Manizales (Colombia)
> Tecnodiversidad. Curated by Juaniko Moreno and 陈天琪 (Chen Tian Qi). Galería Santa Fe online (Colombia/China)
> Armonogramas. Experimental music album curated by Jorge Barco, edited by Eter Lab (Colombia)
2020
> Escaleras Futuras. Curated by MSD at the Galería Santa Fe (Colombia)
> Sensoria. Curated by Juan Covelli and Juan Cortés for ARTBO (Colombia)
> Videolimbo. Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (México)
> Mediate: in betweenness. Possible Future Lab (Denmark)
2019
> Artificial Nature. Internet Moon Gallery. Curated by Juan Covelli for The Wrong Biennale (online)
> Artecámara. ARTBO. Curaduría de Helena Producciones (Colombia)
> Cibercorporalidades. Curaduría de Felipe César Londoño. Alianza Francesa (Colombia)
> The Glass Room Bogotá. Estación Terrena (Colombia)
2018
> Debes seguir. No puedo seguir. Seguiré. Curaduría de Alejandra Sarria. Espacio Odeón (Colombia)
> Most Things Happens When I’m Asleep. Participation with laagencia. Artspace (New Zealand)
> Nuevos Nombres 2. Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia. Banco de la República (Colombia)
> Future Perfect. Hygienic Art Gallery (USA)
2017
> Transacciones informales. Cinemateca Distrital (Colombia)
> Lluvia de Sobres. Cámara de Comercio de Kennedy (Colombia)
2016
> I Banal de Arquitectura. CAMPO (Colombia)
> Cloud Archives. Residence/SF (USA)
> Encounters: Portraits and Identity. Embark Gallery (USA)
2015
> Crank! Southern Exposure (USA)
> Paranoia. Diego Rivera Gallery (USA)