Geraldine Juarez

Early life and education

Juárez was born in Mexico 1977. She is Mexican visual artist whose work reflect on the social and economic relations mediated by contemporary networked culture. She worked in post-production for advertising and music videos for several years doing visual effects in Mexico City, New York and Los Angeles, which led her to join Eyebeam's AIR studio in 2002. Juárez is currently a student of Fine Art in Valand Academy at the University of Gothenburg.

She moved from Mexico City to Brooklyn, New York as an adult. In 2002 she was granted a fellowship at Eyebeam due to various projects she was involved in. Juarez's art includes, but not limited to installation, media based, object production, video art and collaboration. Eyebeam is a nonprofit organization for artists to experiment and research with technology for art purposes. She left the organization, but in 2006 she returned to Eyebeam as a senior fellow in the Production Lab, where her practice evolved to embrace code, electronics and waste to create low-tech objects, while working with Adam Bobbette under the name of Forays. During her fellowship in Eyebeam she worked on visual effects sequences for Alex Rivera's "Sleep Dealer". She has been resident artist at inCUBATE in Chicago, Timelab in Belgium, Fabrikken in Denmark and JA.Ca in Brazil.

She is currently based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Forays (2006 -2010)

Forays was a collaboration between Adam Bobbette and Juárez who met as residents in Eyebeam in 2006.

With her work with Forays, Juarez started sourcing her materials for free.In their work they will get resources through dumpster diving or through the website freecycle. Freecycle is a website where people post household items or clothes they no longer want or need for free. In their manifesto they stated "a foray must be compelled by the ethics of copyleft, hacking, alternative forms of exchange, and released within the public domain." Most of their works included manuals for create infrastructures describes as open source architecture. Open source architecture is essentially artists sharing build plans for various models through media sources. The technique of how a structure was built is the takeaway from the movement among newer media artists.

Juárez has some texts written by her on her website. Some texts are- Intercolonial Technogalactic, 2017, Lost and Found, 2010 and How to Unload Bags and Practice Failure, 2008. She has co wrote with artists like Adam Bobette and Randy Safaran. Her passages discuss some of the common themes in her art work like over consumption, copy culture and piracy, hacking culture and technocolonialism.

Her work has been shown internationally at collective exhibitions. Early exhibitions include Interference, Feedback and Other Options in Eyebeam (NYC), Creative Times’s Democracy in America (NYC), Secret Project Robot (NYC), State of the Art: New York at URBIS Manchester (UK), Actions: What you can do with the city at Centre for Canadian Architecture (CA), G.R.L.| F.A.T. World Summit at CREAM (Japan) Los Impolíticos at Pan Pallazo delle Arti in Napoli (Italy), DEEP NORTH at Transmediale (Berlin) and festivals such Piksel, Futuresonic, Pixelache, Conflux and Transitio.