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Camila Galaz is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, writer, and researcher based in New York. Her work looks at social histories of technology, memory and identity through media archives, and reconsiderations of cultural touchstones and mythologies
She is the creator and co-host of the tech history podcast Our Friend the Computer (Media Archaeology Lab, University of Colorado), a founding member of the Superkilogirls research group (Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam), a contributing editor of the Millennium Film Journal, and a Y10 Incubator Member at NEW INC (New Museum, New York).
She is the recipient of the 2018 MECCA M-Power Scholarship from the National Gallery of Victoria, the 2019-2021 Australia Council EMPAC New York Residency, and a 2021 LA County Vibrant Cities Arts Grant. In 2019 she presented a Writing & Concepts lecture at the National Gallery of Victoria (‘Questioning Existence with the Subjunctive [Spanish Demystified])’, and a four-part workshop for Channels Video Art Biennale and Free Association (‘Time, After Time: A Reenactment Workshop’). In 2022 her project ‘REDES: bread and justice, peaches and bananas’ appeared in the journal ‘Thresholds no. 50’ from the MIT Department of Architecture.
She has undertaken residencies and mentorships with artist Laure Prouvost (France, 2019), Venezuelan dancer and choreographer Vanessa Vargas (New York, 2019), and comedy production company CleftClips (Los Angeles, 2017). She was a selected participant of the 2018 Summer School as School program, administered by Stacion Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina (Kosovo), and the 2020 Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.