César Escudero Andaluz, 2026 EMAP residency
https://www.neme.org/blog/cesar-2026-emap-residency
NeMe is happy to announce the start of its EMAP public programme with the residency of César Escudero Andaluz, an artist and researcher living in Linz. His work focuses on digital culture and its social and political effects. His practices combine images, diagrams, interactive installations, and robotics with speculative design, media archaeology, critical interfaces, and infrastructures. César’s research addresses issues such as dataveillance, algorithmic governance, blockchain, labour precariousness, and techno-colonialism.
César was of 15 artists selected by 15 EU member organisations from its 643 valid submissions. This highly competitive annual programme focuses not only on the production of artworks but also their dissemination between the 15 organisations but also an extended network of 160 organisations world-wide that we partially fund for the presentation of EMAP productions.
THE EMAP members are Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; Chroniques, Marseille, France; CIKE, Košice, Slovakia; gnration, Braga, Portugal; iMAL, Brussels, Belgium; IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], Utrecht, the Netherlands; Kersnikova Institute (Kapelica Gallery), Ljubljana, Slovenia; KONTEJNER | Bureau of Contemporary Art Praxis, Zagreb, Croatia; LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain; MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan, Italy; NeMe, Limassol, Cyprus; Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece; RIXC Centre for New Media Culture, Riga, Latvia; werkleitz – Centre for Media Art, Halle (Saale), Germany; and WRO Art Center, Wrocław, Poland.
The artwork selected to be produced by NeMe is titled Free Universal Cleaning Kit for Satellite Decolonisation (F.U.C.K-SD.). It proposes artistic tactics to sabotage satellite monopolies and solutions to address space waste issues. The goal is to encourage critical thinking by creating a speculative autonomous device powered by solar panels that can sabotage satellites and clean up space debris.
We will have more news about the residency, and the artwork, as it develops.
The photograph was taken at gnration in Braga, Portugal, where the 15 EMAP member organisations met with their selected artists.
