Paula Gaetano-Adi
Paula Gaetano Adi teaches in Experimental and Foundation Studies and Computation, Technology and Culture. An artist and scholar working at the intersection of robotics, crafts and performance, Gaetano Adi has exhibited and lectured extensively in museums, conferences and media art festivals throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas, in locales such as the National Art Museum of China, Istanbul Design Biennial, Matadero Madrid, Vancouver National Art Gallery, Ars Electronica, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, BienalSur, SECS Sao Paulo, Mejan Labs Gallery Stockholm, Humboldt Forum Berlin and CENART Mexico, among others.
She was awarded first prize in the international competition VIDA, Art, Robotics & Artificial Life and first prize in LIMBØ by the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, and was distinguished with Fundación Telefónica’s Award for Ibero-American artists. A former fellow at Argentina’s National Endowment for the Arts, Gaetano Adi was recently honored with the 2023 Creative Capital Award.
Academic areas of interest
Robotics and Robotic Art, Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence, Interactivity, Embodiment, Performance, New Media Art, Phenomenology, Feminist Techno-science, Postcolonialism and Decolonization, Mestizaje, Postcolonial Techno-science, Posthumanism, High+Low Technologies, Digital Fabrication, Physical Computing and Kinetics, Latin American Art and Studies, Pedagogy.