Juan Pablo García Sossa

Juan Pablo García Sossa (JPGS) is a designer, researcher, and expansive media artist. Juan’s / jpgs’s artistic research practice explores the shaping of cultures, realities, and worlds through the remixing and re·appropriation of technologies from a TropikÓS perspective (understanding the Tropics as both a region and a mindset). Their practice is deeply committed to pluriversing technologies towards techno·diversities and more-than-binary perma·computing. Through various netting projects such as Futura Trōpica Netroots, jpgs challenges the homogenising effects of globalism, emphasising relation in difference as in an interPlanetary patchwork of systems and cosmologies.

jpgs has developed multiple curatorial projects on and around Post-Development, engaging with emerging digital cultures, grassroots popular cultures, collective intelligences, and the repositioning of realities. Their work is deeply informed by networked communities and their evolving imaginative, technological, and emancipatory strategies.

JPGS has been part of diverse research institutions and design studios such as SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin and as Co-Director of Estación Terrena, a space for artistic research and pluriversing technologies at the electronic 9th avenue in Bogotá. JPGS was a 2020 Fellow at EYEBEAM, 2021 Web Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude and a 2022 Prince Claus CAREC fellow.

In 2021 JPGS initiated Futura Trōpica Netroots, an InterTropical Net of Grass-Root Local Networks connecting communities and nets of support and affection within the Tropical Belt (Latin America and the Caribbean, the African Continent, South Asia and South-East Asia, among many more). It is meant for the lateral exchange of other forms of knowledges, nets and technologies from a Tropikós perspective.

In 2022 JPGS developed the curatorial research & netting project Magical Hackerism or The Elasticity of Resilience and co-curated Unraveling the (Under-) Development Complex | An Ode To Walter Rodney's "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" 50 Years On (1972–2022) both at SAVVY Contemporary Berlin.

Recently JPGS has been co-curator along with Neema Githere of By The Mango Belt & Tamarind Road for transmediale2026, as well as From Sing·Bowls to Topper·Where? and Instant Kalpa(s), co-lateral programs and projects for Singapore and Thailand Biennale 2025–26, respectively. JPGS is part of the curatorial team of BIAM27 – Bienal Internacional Antioquia Medellin 2027.