I'm
Juan Pablo García Sossa.
I was born in Colombia,
grew up in Bogotá
and have been the past 10+ years between there & Berlin.
This is from where I speak.
I'm a Designer, Researcher and Expansive Media Artist fascinated by the clash between emerging technologies and grass-root popular culture in the tropics.
My practice explores the development of cultures, realities and worlds through the remix and re·appropriation of technologies from a Tropikós perspective (Tropics as Region and Mindset).
Engaging with real and semi-fictional organisations jpgs practice is committed to pluriversing technologies and exploring more-than-binary computing in a wide range of media such as visual languages, interfaces, web, new media installations, curatorial projects and other visual experiments++
I explore ways of sensibilization through narrative experiences of interaction — and envision tropical pasts, presents & futures.
Member of S A V V Y Contemporary – The Laboratory of Form-Ideas Design Department
2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future Fellow at EYEBEAM.
Initiator Futura Trōpica Netroots
I studied Design at Universidad de Los Andes Bogotá and Visual Communication (BA—MA) at the University of The Arts UdK Berlin.
Worlding together ?
Drop me a line at hola@puntojpgs.com
EDUCATION
-
MA Visual Communication | New Media
UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS UDK BERLIN
MA Project with Joachim Sauter | Alberto de Campo | Alexander Müller-Rakow
Digital Class | Joachim Sauter
Class Ai Weiwei
Berlin, Germany
2015—2017
-
BA Visual Communication
UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS UDK BERLIN
BA Project with Joachim Sauter | David Skopec | Alexander Müller-Rakow
Digital Class | Joachim Sauter
Info Class | David Skopec
Berlin, Germany
2013—2015
-
Design
UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES
5 Semester Design Student
Bogotá, Colombia
2010—2012
MENTIONS & RESIDENCIES
-
Testing Ground
Art Hub Copenhagen
2022 | 2023
-
Cultural and Artistic Responses to Environmental Change
Prince Claus
2022
-
Driving The Human
2021
-
Mutations Web Residency
Schloss Solitude
2021
-
Affiliated Artist at Weizenbaum Institut
Futura Trōpica Netroots
With Sarah Grant
2021
-
Supporting Fellow at EYEBEAM Center for the Future of Journalism (ECFJ)
Phase 2
2020
-
EYEBEAM | Rapid Response for A Better Digital Future
Phase 2
2020
-
EYEBEAM | Rapid Response for A Better Digital Future
Phase 1
2020
-
FAST COMPANY’S INNOVATION BY DESIGN AWARD FINALIST
The TOUCH Technology | Finalist at the Student Category
2015
-
GERMAN MULTIMEDIA PRICE MB21
The TOUCH Technology | Winner at the Media Art Category
2015
STUDY PROGRAMS
-
CON / CRIT / TEC
Conscientizações Críticas Tecnológicas (Technologies of Critical Conscientization, or Con/Crit/Tec)
Casa do Povo
São Paulo, Brazil
2023
-
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
Disruptive Market Innovation
London, UK
2016
-
UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON
Modual Workshop
London, UK
2016
SOLO SHOWS
-
CONSIDERATIONS FOR A ROOT·CODE RE·WIRING
Curated by Darko Fritz, Format C
Siva Zona grey) (area
Korčula, Croatia
2024
-
PREGON(IA)R
Solo Show & Interactive Installation
Espacio El Dorado
Bogotá, Colombia
2019
-
SACUDIR LA TIERRA
Solo Show with Daniela Medina Poch
Valenzuela Klenner Galería
Bogotá, Colombia
2019
EXHIBITIONS
-
PREGON(IA)R
Solo Show & Interactive Installation
Espacio El Dorado
Bogotá, Colombia
2019
-
HERENCIA FUTURA —> EL NUEVO NORMAL | HABANERO INSTITUTE
Direction, Museography & Curation
ARTBO | Chamber of Commerce Bogotá
Bogotá, Colombia
2019
-
THE GLASS ROOM BOGOTÁ
Direction, Management & Curation
Estación Terrena
Bogotá, Colombia
2019
-
SACUDIR LA TIERRA
Solo Show with Daniela Medina Poch
Valenzuela Klenner Galería
Bogotá, Colombia
2019
-
SÒNAR BOGOTÁ 2018
Campos de Atracción
Bogotá, Colombia
2018
-
ARTECÁMARA | ARTBO
Por Medio del Medio
Bogotá, Colombia
2018
-
BEYOND THE DÖNER
New transnational dishes for Berlin
CLB Berlin
Berlin, Germany
2018
-
ARTTEC FESTIVAL - Festival for Arts and Technology
Shades of Rose
Bogotá, Colombia
2017
-
STANDARD INTERNATIONAL #4 SPATIAL CLEARINGS
Me, Myself and The Otherself
GLINT | loop – raum für aktuelle kunst
Berlin, Germany
2017
-
Omnium Gatherum of Journeys | Class Ai Weiwei Exhibition & Publication
Me, Myself and The Otherself (Installation + Research Publication)
University of The Arts UdK Berlin
Berlin, Germany
2017
-
EXTENSIONS OF PERCEPTION - Transmediale Vorspiel
Shades of Rose
designtransfer
Berlin, Germany
2017
-
APPLIED FUTURE
Grids & Lines
Berlin, Germany
2015
-
ARTTEC FESTIVAL - Festival for Arts and Technology
The TOUCH Technology
Bogotá, Colombia
2015
-
DEUTSCHE WELLE - Arts.21 The Cultural Magazine
The TOUCH Technology (Interview)
Berlin, Germany
2014
-
MUTATIS MUTANDIS - International Exhibition | Posters about Technology
Vía Libre
La Tecnología Touch
Bogotá, Colombia
2013
-
ANDANDO - BEST FROM UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES
Talento de Impresión
LaGuía
The Runaways
Bogotá, Colombia
2012
-
ANDANDO - BEST FROM UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES
Deportivo Peatones Vs. Obreros FC
Bogotá, Colombia
2011
CARRER
-
S A V V Y Contemporary–The Laboratory of Form-Ideas
Design Department
Berlin, Germany
2019—
-
Estación Terrena
Direction and Creative Lead
Bogotá, Colombia
2019—
-
FELD | Studio for Digital Crafts
Conception, Graphics, Development and Interaction
Bogotá, Colombia
2015—2017
-
Design Research Lab
Student Worker for Skintimacy, Neighborhood Labs, Closer, and NurMut Research Projects
Berlin, Germany
2013—2016
-
Wiring Challenges
Team Member and Workshop Instructor for the Wiring Language and Boards
2012—
WORKSHOPS & TALKS
-
COUNTER-FUTURING
Organized by Özgün Eylül İşcen & Shintaro Miyazaki
Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Berlin, Germany
2022
-
DISEÑO ARTEFACTOS CRÍTICOS
For Class Juana Leal
Universidad de los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia
2021
-
AUTOMATING HUMANITY
Panel with Caroline Sinders & Tiara Roxanne
Rainbow Unicorn
Part of Transmediale Vorspiel
Berlin, Germany
2021
-
MAGICAL HACKERISM – THE TROPICAL TURN
Transformation Design
HBK Braunschweig
Braunschweig, Germany
2021
-
FUTURA TRŌPICA NETROOTS
Radical Networks Class Sarah Grant
NYU Berlin
Berlin, Germany
2021
-
PLAY REWIND RECORD PLAY
Conversation with Laura Huertas Millán, Luisa González, Juan Carlos Arias, Valentina Medina, Álvaro Rodríguez Badel
S A V V Y Contemporary The Laboratory of Form-Ideas
Estación Terrena
Bogotá, Colombia
2021
-
Real Magicalism: Applied Semi-Fiction to Colombian visions & Worlds
Speculative Futures Bogotá
Bogotá, Colombia
2020
-
COMING COMMONS, The Art of digital Reappropriation and Redistribution
Discussion with Station of Commons and Nora Sternfeld
Manifesta13
Marseille, France | Hamburg, Germany
2020
-
Habanero Institute: Creation as Research
For Class of Leonardo Parra
Universidad de los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia
2020
-
Real Magicalism: Critical Speculative Design in Colombia, the land of magical realism
Visions from Latin America. A cross-cultural dialogue for uncertain futures
School of Critical Design
London, UK
2020
-
COLONIAL POWERS AND OTHER FORMS OF DESIGN
With Elsa Westreicher
Symposium Panel
Weltformat Graphic Design Festival
Lucerne, Switzerland
2020
-
Provoking Anomalies in Predictive Streams
Sharing Bauhaus
2020
-
Technologies in the tropics and future envisioning
Talk at Spinning Triangles: Ignition of a School of Design
S A V V Y Contemporary–The Laboratory of Form-Ideas
Berlin, Germany
2019
-
New Encounters with Transquotidian
With Daniela Medina Poch
Plataforma Canibal
Barranquilla, Colombia
2019
-
PECHA KUCHA CAMPUS | Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
Tropical Virus | A Toolbox For Disruption Talk for the Long Night of the Sciences
TU Berlin | UdK Berlin
Berlin, Germany
2016
-
DGTF TAGUNG | Reassembling Relationships: People, Systems, Things
Little Scapes | Workshop for the German Society for Design Theory and Research
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
2015
-
DESIGN & EMOTION |
The Colors of Care
Skintimacy - Touch as Digital Interface Workshop for the 9. Design & Emotion Conference | The Colors of Care
Universidad de los Andes | Universidad ICESI
Cali, Colombia
2015
-
DGTF TAGUNG | Die Politik der Makers
Skintimacy - Touch as Digital Interface Workshop for the German Society for Design Theory and Research
HFBK Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
2013
-
UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES
Skintimacy - From the Screen to the Skin Workshop for Universidad de los Andes
Universidad de los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia
2013
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
-
CHRONOPLASTICITY
OR
HOW TO EAT A ROLEX
As part of Chronoplasticity curated by Lars Bang Larsen
Raven Row
London, UK
2024
-
YUKÉSABE LAB
As part of Anarquelogía de Medios II
Espacio Comunal | Espacio ODEON
Planetario Bogotá
Bogotá, Colombia
2024
-
ESC RETURN ↩
Scripts for Degrowth, Buen Vivir and Living
As part of find.select.transform
panke.gallery
Berlin, Germany
2024
-
RADIOCHISPAS OR SONIC AGITATIONS
Concept & Curatorial Project
Estación Terrena
Bogotá, Colombia
2023
-
AROUND SPELLING WORLDS & MAGICAL HACKERISM
Concept & Curatorial Project
Estación Terrena
Bogotá, Colombia
2023
-
Magical Hackerism
or The Elasticity of Resilience
Concept & Curatorial & Research Project
SAVVY Contemporary The Laboratory of Form-Ideas
panke.gallery
Berlin, Germany
2022
-
UNRAVELING THE (UNDER-) DEVELOPMENT COMPLEX OR TOWARDS A POST- (UNDER-) DEVELOPMENT INTERDEPENDENCE
Co-Curation with Hajra Haider Karrar
SAVVY Contemporary The Laboratory of Form-Ideas
Berlin, Germany
2022-2023
-
SALA DE NAVEGACIÓN | FUTURA TRŌPICA BOGOTÁ
Concept & Curatorial Project
Estación Terrena
Bogotá, Colombia
2022
-
HERENCIA FUTURA —> EL NUEVO NORMAL | HABANERO INSTITUTE
Concept, Direction, Museography & Curation
ARTBO | Chamber of Commerce Bogotá
Bogotá, Colombia
2019
-
THE GLASS ROOM BOGOTÁ
Direction, Management & Curation
Estación Terrena
Bogotá, Colombia
2019
EXHIBITIONS
-
TOOLS FOR CHANGE
Curated by Julia Kaganskiy
Braiding Interdependent Redários
HEK House of Electronic Arts
Basel, Switzerland
2024
-
UNBLACKBOXING
Artistic investigations into digital realms of exploitation and control
Curated by Daniel Irrgang
Temporary | Futura Trōpica| Acces Point + Warung Banner
Einstein Center Digital Future
Berlin, Germany
2023
-
COPING STRATEGIES
Temporary | Futura Trōpica| Acces Point + Artist Talk
Piksel Festival
Bergen, Norway
2022
-
Weizenbaum Conference
Temporary | Futura Trōpica| Acces Point
Alte Münze
Berlin, Germany
2022
-
FRAGILE SOLIDARITY / FRAGILE CONNECTIONS
Braiding Redes + Artist Talk
Akademie Schloss Solitude / Digital Solitude
Stuttgart, Germany
2022
-
Driving the Human
The Tropical Turn—Maneuvers for a Planetary Embodiment
Radialsystem
Berlin, Germany
2021
-
RAUPENIMMERSATTISM.
The Affluent Society as Consumed Society or The Myth of Endless Production and Consumption
With Daniela Medina Poch
Papel Soberano
SAVVY Contemporary The Laboratory of Form-Ideas
Berlin, Germany
2020
-
Practicing Sovereignty — Means of Digital Involvement
GeoFilters
Weizenbaum Institut
Berlin, Germany
2020
-
SÒNAR BOGOTÁ 2018
Campos de Atracción
Bogotá, Colombia
2018
-
ARTECÁMARA | ARTBO
Por Medio del Medio
Bogotá, Colombia
2018
-
BEYOND THE DÖNER
New transnational dishes for Berlin
CLB Berlin
Berlin, Germany
2018
-
ARTTEC FESTIVAL - Festival for Arts and Technology
Shades of Rose
Bogotá, Colombia
2017
-
STANDARD INTERNATIONAL #4 SPATIAL CLEARINGS
Me, Myself and The Otherself
GLINT | loop – raum für aktuelle kunst
Berlin, Germany
2017
-
Omnium Gatherum of Journeys | Class Ai Weiwei Exhibition & Publication
Me, Myself and The Otherself (Installation + Research Publication)
University of The Arts UdK Berlin
Berlin, Germany
2017
-
EXTENSIONS OF PERCEPTION - Transmediale Vorspiel
Shades of Rose
designtransfer
Berlin, Germany
2017
-
APPLIED FUTURE
Grids & Lines
Berlin, Germany
2015
-
ARTTEC FESTIVAL - Festival for Arts and Technology
The TOUCH Technology
Bogotá, Colombia
2015
-
DEUTSCHE WELLE - Arts.21 The Cultural Magazine
The TOUCH Technology (Interview)
Berlin, Germany
2014
-
MUTATIS MUTANDIS - International Exhibition | Posters about Technology
Vía Libre
La Tecnología Touch
Bogotá, Colombia
2013
-
ANDANDO - BEST FROM UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES
Talento de Impresión
LaGuía
The Runaways
Bogotá, Colombia
2012
-
ANDANDO - BEST FROM UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES
Deportivo Peatones Vs. Obreros FC
Bogotá, Colombia
2011