Saša Spačal
Biography
Saša Spačal [she/her] is a postmedia artist working at the intersection of living systems research and contemporary art, focusing on entanglements of the environmentculture continuum and planetary metabolisms. By developing biotechnological strategies she addresses the vulnerabilities of the posthuman condition which involve entanglement of mechanical, digital and organic logic within contemporary biopolitics and necropolitics.
Her works were presented at venues such as Ars Electronica (AT), Centre de Cultura Contemporània Barcelona CCCB (ES), Laboratoria Art & Science Foundation / New Tretyakov Gallery (RUS), National Art Museum of China (CHN), Onassis Cultural Centre Athens (GR), Transmediale Festival (DE), GHMP Prague City Gallery (CZ), Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (SI), Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (SI), Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (RUS), Chronos Art Centre (CHN), Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (CRO), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (SRB). She received awards and nominations at Ars Electronica Starts Prize (2021), Japan Media Art Award (2020), New Technological Art Award (2019), New Aesthetica Prize (2020), Prix Cube (2015) and Prix Ars Electronica (2015).