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Pat Badani

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Pat Badani is an artist, writer, and scholar born in Argentina. Throughout her densely woven research-creation journey she has drawn from the fields of art, science, and technology to develop projects that inspect social, biological, and technological networks. Projects have been recently shown in curated, international new media events: Festival de la Imagen (Colombia); ELO – Electronic Literature Organization (Canada); and Technoetic Arts, DeTAO (China).  Profiled in LEONARDO Journal; Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism; and Artelogie Journal  (EHESS, France); her works have been discussed in anthologies such as The Performing Observer: Writings on Contemporary Art, Performance, and Photography, ed. Martin Patrick (Intellect Press, Bristol, UK) and Advances in Visual Methodology, ed. Sara Pink (Sage publications, London). In 2024, Badani received a major award from The Canada Council for the Arts to develop “BichEden: ParaDoxa”.

Pat Badani’s projects have been distinguished with over 20 awards and commissions by the Canada Council for the Arts; Illinois Arts Council; DCASE; National Endowment for the Arts; the Robert Heinecken Trust; Harvestworks; Festival Internacional de la Imagen; Art Souterrain; and recognized for leading-edge work by Creative Capital, Art Matters, and AWAW, in the U.S.A. Badani exhibits her projects broadly in North and South America, Europe, and Asia, in electronic media festivals, galleries, and museums. She has participated in international symposia with her essays and talks in over 15 countries, and her works have been critically surveyed in conference panel discussions, in scholarly journals, and in art history anthologies. She is former full-time faculty at ILSTU (Integrated Media); Acting Director at Colombia College, Chicago (Interdisciplinary Arts); and Editor-in-Chief of Media-N Journal, New Media Caucus, in the U.S.A. Since 2017 she serves on the board of directors of ISEA International overseeing the continuation of the annual symposia. (https://www.patbadani.net/)

Pat Badani imaginatively addresses queer ecology and object relations, often using food to create photo-sculptural works examining ecology, poetics, and technology.
RE: GNERATIVE Festival Internacional de la Imagen, 2025, Bogota, Colombia
Badani’s artistic practice mixes culinary, artistic, and environmental materials, forms, and commentary. It also explores its shaping as a work of media art, both on past media art histories and the current, ongoing, debates about human and nonhuman relations and futures.
Claudia Costa Pederson, PhD. Artelogie #20, 2023, Paris, France
[Badani’s work] suggests that although new models of creating and co-existing are rapidly emerging, moving from resilience to transformation may only be achieved through developing a holistic view of our relationship with digital technologies – namely, through understanding both their dormant potentialities and their multiple black boxes.
Bill Balaskas, PhD. “Digital Sustainability/From Resistance to Transformation”, DRHA 2022, London, England
Pat Badani has an interdisciplinary research practice whose methods, languages, and strategies result in a work full of connections that function through associations of ideas, or visual images, presented as “research in progress”.
Catherine Bédard, PhD. “Transgenic culture and global art: Pat Badani’s AL GRANO Project, Nouvelle Reveu d’esthetique #8, 2011, Paris, France

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BichEden : Para Doxa

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