Juan is a media artist and interaction designer living and working in Geneva, Switzerland. He graduated with
honours from the Haute école d’art et de design – Genève (HEAD – Geneva) and is working in the intersection
between art and design. He organizes workshops on critical technology, curates panels on contemporary
publishing practices and conceives interactive installations with programing tools he develops.
His current interest are: The materialisation of social technologies in temporal urban spaces and their
potential for generating valuable discussions in urban decisions; On empowering methods for the civil
society to engage with their technological tools and on inclusive ways for teaching coding in playful ways.
He is currently a PhD candidate in Design with a the practice based thesis Re-decentralize design: Tools for a new spatial design practice
tutored by Anthony Masure (HEAD) & Jeffrey Huang (EPFL).
He has work as artistic researcher for the Institute of Network Cultures(NL) as well as for Integral Ruedi
Baur (FR/CH). In Geneva, he is the Content Coordinator of the Center for Future Publishing (CfFP) where he
hosts a monthly event inviting artists, philosophers and designers to engage a discussion on how their
practice is touched by contemporary changes in publishing and also exposing critical views on
algorithmically assisted artistic practices on publishing. He was part of the mediation of construction of
the Dutch Pavilion (Bogotá 2016) working along designers and architects such as Irma Boom and MVRDV.
His most recent work “Perpetual Printing” was exhibited as a carte blanche in the Triennial of Contemporary
Prints at the Musée des Beaux-arts le Locle (Locle,CH), Porto Design Biennale (Porto,PT),Weltformat Festival
(Lucerne,CH) and in Volumes Art Book Fair (November 2019 Zurich,CH) made in collaboration with Penelope
Umbrico and the CfFP. His writings and work have been published by Hackers & Designers(NL),
PublishingLab(NL), Revista Arcadia(CO), Issue-journal(CH) and self publish.
He has facilitated workshops for Bibliothèques Municipales de la Ville de Genève, Pro-Helvetia Shanghai,
AIESEC Siences Po Paris and educational projects for kids and adults.
PhD in Design (EPFL & HEAD)
haut ecole d'art et design (head), genève, 2023
école polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne ‐ epfl, lausanne, 2023
master in media design
haut ecole d'art et design (head), genève, 2018
exchange
(6 months), hochschule für künste bremen
bachelor in visual communication
ecole de communication visuelle, paris, 2016
exchange
(6 months),
universidad de los andes
fine arts introductory year
pantheon sorbonne 1,
paris, 2012
international baccalaureate
british-colombian high school, cali, 2011
integral ruedi baur
digital designer
paris, 2016–2017
publishinglab
internship as researcher and designer
amsterdam,
2016
embassy of the netherlands
digital design consultant
bogota, 2016-2017
atelier perrine rousselet
graphic design assistant
paris,
2015
surreal
graphic design assistant
bogota, 2015
the power of
cute:
love and hate your smart toys
berlin, jan 2019
impossible
methods: on the existence of designed things
berlin, jan 2019
visual
evidence: methods and tools for human rights investigation
berlin, feb 2019
the paged media
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prepostprint workshop
paris, nov 2018
summer academy
hackers & designers
amsterdam, 2017
dutch design summer school
open set
rotterdam, 2016
designing
connected products
copenhagen institute of interaction design
copenhaguen, 2016
arduino training
la gaîté lyrique
paris, 2014
vidéo mapping et
installations interactives
la gaîté lyrique
paris, 2014
transmediale(de)
berlin, jan 2019-2018-2017
impakt(nl)
utrecht, oct 2019-2018-2017
todaysart(nl)
hague, sept 2018-2017
mapping festival(ch)
geneva, mai 2018
beyond change(ch)
basel, mar 2018
digital cultures:knowledge / culture /
technology(de)
lüneburg, sept 2018
wikimedia netherlands conference(nl)
utrecht, jan 2016
indesign, photoshop, illustrator,
css, javascript, php, node,
wordpress, kirby,
fusion 360, cura,
raspberry pi, arduino, feather
spanish
english
french
german
curation for open lab cycle of talks and content coordination for center for future publishing
digital archiving and documentation for civic-city
wiki2epub alongside cristina cochior for publishinglab