Qualifications
PhD Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Communication and Culture, 2016.
MA Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm, Architecture, 2007.
BA University of Seville, Architecture, 2003.
Awards & Grants
2019 NTNU ARTEC Artist in Residence
2018 6th DKV – Álvarez Margaride Production Scholarship, organised by LABoral Centro de Arte & DKV
2013 Elinor Ostrom Award, Program on Democracy, Society and New Economies University of Buenos Aires.
2011 Tokyo Wonder Site 2011 Artist in Residence Grant.
2009 EME3 Architecture Festival Barcelona, Laboratories Category Award.
2007
Townhouse Gallery Cairo Artist in Residence Grant, supported by Spanish Embassy in Egypt.
LAB_Joven Experimenta Award, LABoral Art & Industrial Creation Centre.
LAB_Cyberspaces Award, LABoral Art & Industrial Creation Centre
2006
Plaza de las Libertades Sevilla International Architectural Competition Award.
Artistic Exhibitions
2018
La Zona, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
2016
Terra Mediterranea: in action, HALLE 14 Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig.
On Display: Immemory, Soft Cinema, After Video Bilkent University, Ankara.
2015
jpg imaxe ou natureza, Zona C, Santiago de Compostela.
El Mediterráneo como frontera: realidad y representación, Centre for Arts, Seville.
2014
Multitude, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo.
2013
Behind the atomic curtain, Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, Denver.
2012
Paratactical Commons, Amber Festival, Istanbul.
2011
Mapping the Commons of Athens, Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens.
2010
The One and Multiple, Artlewa art space, Cairo.
L’ un y el multiple, Sala La Capella, Barcelona.
Cartografías ciudadanas, Sala 1 Fundación de Cultura, Gijón.
Mapping the Contemporary, Bienal of Contemporary Art Bucharest.
2009
Banquetes: redes y nodos, ZKM Karlsruhe
2008
Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo. Seville.
Banquetes: redes y nodos, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacción Industrial, Gijón.
Situation Room, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial de Gijón.
2007
Mediterraneos, Centro de Arte La Panera, Lleida.
2005
Festival Zeppelin de Arte Sonoro, CCCB, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona
2004
Aire Incondicional, Zedhalle, Zurich.
2003
Cruzados, CCCB Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona.
Publications
Books
Lerone O., Hadzilemovic, A., DeSoto, P., Shereen L. (2016). After.Video: Assemblages. London: Open Humanities Press.
DeSoto, P. (2010). Situation Room, designing a prototype of a citizen situation room. Barcelona: Dpr- Barcelona, p. 111.
DeSoto, P. and Monsell, P. (2006). Fadaiat: Freedom of Movement, Freedom of knowledge. Cedma-Málaga, p. 260.
Papers in Scientific Journals
DeSoto, P. (2019). Indagaciones críticas al Antropoceno: Diez Libros. Boletim da Sociedade Basileira de Economia Ecológica, pp 21-25, issue 58.
DeSoto, P., Buoli, A. (2017). From the Strait of Gibraltar to Fukushima: Situated Practices and Future Imaginaries at Contemporary Borderscapes. A Conversation with Pablo DeSoto. Traces #04 Performative Margins.
DeSoto, P. (2017). Os mapas do 15M: A arte da cartografia da multidão conectada Liinc, 13(1).
DeSoto, P., Delinikolas, D., Dragona, D., Senel, A. and Pérez de Lama, J.P. (2015). Mapping the Urban Commons: a Parametrical and Audiovisual Method. V!RUS, 11.
DeSoto, P. & Amorós, L. (2015). #dronehackademy. ECO-Pos, 18(2), Tecnopolíticas e Vigilância.
DeSoto, P. (2015). #DroneHackademy: Contravisualidad aérea y ciencia ciudadana para el uso de UAVs como tecnología social, Teknocultura. 12(3), pp. 449-471.
Journal Guest Editor
Desoto, P. (ed). Art and Activism in the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene. Arte y Políticas de Indentidad. Issue 20, 2019. ISSN electronic: 1989-8452 ISSN print: 1889-979X.
Book Chapters
DeSoto, P. (2019). Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene, artistic responses to Fukushima. In Alonso, C., ed., Mutant Ecologies in Contemporary Art. Barcelona: University of Barcelona.
DeSoto, P. (2017). Indagaciones críticas al Antropoceno. Ecología Política Cuadernos de debate internacional, 53.
DeSoto, P. (2016). Antropoceno, Capitaloceno, Chthuluceno, vivendo com o problema em Fukushima. In: Borges, F., ed., TCNXMNSM. São Paulo: Invisíveis Produções, pp. 22-31.
DeSoto, P. (2016). Las imágenes de Fukushima: el mapa de lo invisible o una naturaleza de ontología pos-nuclear. In: Vites, D. and A. González, eds., Fukushima Ostranenie. Santa Cruz de Terenife: La Piscina Editorial, pp. 68-87.
DeSoto, P. (2016) #Dronehackademy: Tecnopolítica aérea do comum vs. a violência da cidade neoliberal. In: Rena N., Rena A. and Bambozi L., eds., Tecnopolíticas do Comum: arte, urbanismo e democracia. Belo Horizonte: Fluxos, pp. 76-85.
DeSoto, P. (2015). Los mapas del #15M: El arte de la cartografía de la multitud conectada. In: Serrano, E., Calleja, A., Monterde A. and Toret. J. , eds, 15MP2P. Una mirada transdisciplinar del 15M, Barcelona: UOC, pp. 362-387.
DeSoto, P. (2014). De Istambul a Rio de Janeiro, as lutas pelo comum nas cidades rebeldes. In: Cava, B. and Cocco, eds., Amanhã vai ser maior. São Paulo: Annablume, pp. 143-158.
Pérez de Lama, J., DeSoto, P; Moreno, S. WikiPlaza y Geografías Emergentes. (2009). In: Ohlenschläger, K. and Rico, L., Banquete redes y nodos. Madrid: Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Exterior, Turner, pp: 266-271.
De Manuel, E, Garrido, Y., De Soto, P (1999). Diagnostico de la enseñanza del dibujo en la escuela de arquitectura. Drawing In Architectural Training. Revista de Enseñanza Universitaria.
Lectures
2019
Amor & Bios, MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona
Third Forest Defenders Confernce, PA, Brasil
Resist as Forest: Cartography, Tech & the Arts for New Forms of Planetary Caring. @ Culture Night. Kunsthall Trondheim.
hackitectura net: Radical Cartography and “Space of Flows” Experimental Architecture. ARTEC Seminar Series: Mobilized Humanities, Technology, & Art. NTNU & EGGS Design Trondheim.
VI Simpósio Internacional LAVITS (Rede Latino-Americana de Estudos sobre Vigilância, Tecnologia e Sociedade). UFBA Salvador,
2018
Creative Time Summit, On Archipelagoes and Other Imaginaries: Collective Strategies to Inhabit the World. Miami.
Global Control RIXC Art Science Festival. Riga
Post City Lab Seoul, Ars Electronica + Zer01ne.
Infrastructures for Troubled Times Symposium. Centre of Research and Enterprise Excellence, University of Brighton.
Unmapping Infrastructures. Art Meets Radical Openness. Afo architekturforum oö, Linz.
Edward Said Chair, Federal University of São Paulo.
From the Sputnik to the Stack, Umeå University School of Architecture.
Trans/Border, NUCEM Marseille.
2056 Arte, ciencia y sociedad ante los futuros climáticos, Bilbao.
2017
Transito Mx “How to say we?”, Mexico City.
Radical Cartography, Umeå University School of Architecture.
Speculative Infraestructures, Escuelita CA2M Madrid.
Civic University The Launch of Alternative Schools, Tate Modern London.
2016
International Symposium Mutant Ecologies in Contemporary Art, MACBA Barcelona.
Defending the urbans commons in Brazil, Umeå School of Architecture.
2015
Besides the Screen Métodos e Materiais da Curadoria University of Sao Paulo
Cidade eletronika, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Tecnopolíticas, democracia e urbanismo tático Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte.
2014
Arte multitudinario y bien comun, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito.
Seminário MultipliCidades, Federal University of Minas Gerais.
2013
Cinema Fantasma CCCB Rio de Janeiro.
Mapeando el procomún urbano desde Taksim, Sintagma y Sol. Medialab Prado Madrid.
2012
ReARTtheURBAN, Theatre Gessnerallee Zurich.
2010
Mapping the commons of Athens. National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens.
2009
I International Symposium Educação pelas Imagens e suas Geografias, University Campinas
2008
Inclusiva-net: Redes digitales y espacio físico, Medialab Prado Madrid.
Simposio sobre Culturas Visuales, CASM Centro de Arte Santa Mónica, Barcelona.
2006
Politics of the networks and media-labs in Europe, Mal au Pixel, Paris.
Reconstrucciones digitales, Museo Extremeño de Arte Contemporáneo e Iberoamericano.
2005
Piksel05, BEK, Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts.
2004
Trans Cultural Meeting, Rixc Art Centre, Riga.
Readme software art Camp, Aarhus University.
Neuro Networking Europe, Muffathalle, Munich.
2003
Open Radio, CCCB, Centro de Cultura Contermporánea de Barcelona.
Media Space Invaders, CCCB, Centro de Cultura Contermporánea de Barcelona.
Rkarte nuevos lenguajes, Palacio Euskalduna, Bilbao.
Teaching Experience
2018-20
Visiting Professor Federal University of Paraiba, Department of Architecture & Urbanism (Brazil).
2017-18
Guest Senior Lecturer Umeå University School of Architecture (Sweden).
Conducted Workshops
2018
Centre of Contemporary Culture Valencia, Transversalia.
2017
Umeå University School of Architecture, Urban Networks Vertical workshop.
2015
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, School of Communication, Drone Hackademy,
Federal University of Espiritu Santo, School of Architecture Mapping the Commons Vitoria workshop
2014
SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Mapping the Commons of São Paulo workshop
FLACSO Quito, Mapping the Commons of Quito workshop.
2013
Federal University Minas Gerais, School Architecture, Mapping the Commons of Belo Horizonte.
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, School of Communication (One semester).
2012
Istanbul Technical University, Mapping the commons of Istanbul workshop.
2011
Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín Metropolitan, LabSurLab Videocartography Workshop.
Chelsea Collage of Art & Design London, Imagining Commoniversity workshop,
2010
National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Mapping the commons of Athens.
Gaza Cartography, Winter course, School of Architecture of Alicante.
History, Theory and Composition Department. School of Architecture, University of Seville.
ID Barrio La Marina. Idensitat, Barcelona.
Open Street Map for kids LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Center, Gijón
2009
Cairo Open Lab. Cairo Contemporary Art Bienalle
2005
Devenir cíborg: Territorio, redes de información y comunicación summer course Chamber of architects Cádiz .
1997
University of Seville. School of Architecture. Architecture Graphics and Form Analysis Department. Fellow.
Research Projects
DTST (Digital Tools for Social Transformation) project, a collaboration between UMA and RISE Interactive, 2017.
Indisciplinar Research Group (research fellow), School of Architecture, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2013-2015.
MediaLab.UFRJ (research fellow), School of communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. 2012-2016
Wikiplaza. Tecnologías de la información y la comunicación para construcción social del espacio público. Convocatoria de Ayudas de Investigación 2009 Centro de Estudios Andaluces. Junta de Andalucía, 2009-2011Consejería de Presidencia. En colaboración con el Instituto Universitario de Arquitectura y Ciencias de la Construcción (IUACC) Universidad de Sevilla y FIUS Fundación Investigación Universidad de Sevilla.
Meipi Asturias, Supported by the Plan Avanza – Spanish Ministry of Industry, 2008-2010.