Danae Tapia is a multimedia artist born in the Chilean working class and based in Rotterdam since 2016. Her practice addresses automated digital technologies and religious studies.
She is a self-taught artist. Has a BA in Social Communication from Universidad de Chile, a Master of Science in Management from the University of Bristol and a Research Master in Comparative Literary Studies from Utrecht University. Currently she is a doctoral candidate at the European Graduate School in the Philosophy, Arts and Critical Thought program.
In 2018 she founded Digital Witchcraft Studio. This venture started as an artistic-research initiative dedicated to collect and showcase advanced non-conforming approaches to the use of tech. To the present day, Digital Witchcraft has executed a series of projects addressing posthuman technology. This work has been funded by several international donors.
Next to her artistic practice, she has a solid trajectory in the public interest tech sector. Currently she works at NLnet in Amsterdam coordinating a vast portfolio of free and open source projects. In the past, she has worked at Article 19 in London, the Riseup Collective in the US, Coding Rights in Brazil and Derechos Digitales in Chile. Danae is frequently speaking in public, she has presented her work in places such as the Kodaiji Buddhist Temple in Kyoto, Casa de las Américas in La Habana, RightsCon in San Francisco and Taipei, the Garage Museum in Moscow, Mozfest in London, Hackers on Planet Earth in New York City, JSConf in Honolulu, and more. She also has a broad writing register and has published in magazines, academic journals and outlets of creative non-fiction.
She is a part-time lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy, a Rijksakademie alumna, recipient of the Mozilla Fellowship and of numerous scholarships and awards.
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contact: danae [at] digitalwitchcraft.works
She is a self-taught artist. Has a BA in Social Communication from Universidad de Chile, a Master of Science in Management from the University of Bristol and a Research Master in Comparative Literary Studies from Utrecht University. Currently she is a doctoral candidate at the European Graduate School in the Philosophy, Arts and Critical Thought program.
In 2018 she founded Digital Witchcraft Studio. This venture started as an artistic-research initiative dedicated to collect and showcase advanced non-conforming approaches to the use of tech. To the present day, Digital Witchcraft has executed a series of projects addressing posthuman technology. This work has been funded by several international donors.
Next to her artistic practice, she has a solid trajectory in the public interest tech sector. Currently she works at NLnet in Amsterdam coordinating a vast portfolio of free and open source projects. In the past, she has worked at Article 19 in London, the Riseup Collective in the US, Coding Rights in Brazil and Derechos Digitales in Chile. Danae is frequently speaking in public, she has presented her work in places such as the Kodaiji Buddhist Temple in Kyoto, Casa de las Américas in La Habana, RightsCon in San Francisco and Taipei, the Garage Museum in Moscow, Mozfest in London, Hackers on Planet Earth in New York City, JSConf in Honolulu, and more. She also has a broad writing register and has published in magazines, academic journals and outlets of creative non-fiction.
She is a part-time lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy, a Rijksakademie alumna, recipient of the Mozilla Fellowship and of numerous scholarships and awards.
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contact: danae [at] digitalwitchcraft.works