Cook-OFF

Cook-OFF explores the connections between advertising technologies and the military-industrial complex, and highlights the mechanisms of surveillance, data collection, profiling and control that these systems share. Through an immersive experience, it seeks to make visible the infrastructures and logics that operate invisibly in our everyday lives, while also eliciting users' physical and emotional responses to an environment of constant monitoring, prediction and manipulation.

Credits

Programme: Ramin Soleymani

Biography

Temporary collective formed by the artist Joana Moll, the choreographer Mar Medina and the musician Roc Jiménez de Cisneros.
 

Joana Moll is a Barcelona/Berlin based artist and researcher. Her work critically explores the way technocapitalist narratives affect the alphabetization of machines, humans and ecosystems. Her main research topics include Internet materiality, surveillance, social profiling and interfaces.

She has presented her work in renowned institutions, museums, universities and festivals around the world such as Venice Biennale, MAXXI, MMOMA, Laboral, CCCB, ZKM, Bozar, The Natural History Museum in Berlin, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Ars Electronica, HeK Basel, Photographer’s Gallery, Korean Cultural Foundation Center, Chronus Art Center, New York University, Georgetown University, Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, Rutgers University, University of Cambridge, Goldsmiths University of London, University of Illinois, Concordia University, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ETH Zürich, École d’Art d’Aix en Provence, British Computer Society, The New School, CPDP 2019, Transmediale, FILE and ISEA among many others. Her work has been featured extensively on international media including The New York Times, The Financial Times, Der Spiegel, National Geographic, Quartz, Wired, Vice, The New Inquiry, Netzpolitk, El Mundo, O’Globo, La Reppublica, Fast Company, CBC, NBC or MIT Press.

She is the co-founder of the Critical Interface Politics Research Group at Hangar. She’s been a research fellow at BBVA Foundation a fellow at The Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin,  a visiting lecturer at Escola Elisava in Barcelona and an artistic researcher in residence at the Critical Media Lab at HGK in Basel.
 

Mar Medina is an artist, researcher, and educator whose practice is rooted in body-based arts and performance. She holds a degree in Art History from the University of Barcelona and trained as a dancer in various European cities, at New York’s Movement Research program, and with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company. She has also pursued studies in somatic practices, including the Alexander Technique.

Her work brings together artistic creation, research on the moving body, and pedagogy. As a performer, she has collaborated with companies and projects such as Iliacan Danza, Headlong Dance Theater, Kònic Thtr, and the Danish site-specific performance company hello!Earth. Over the years, she has developed a practice focused on creative processes, knowledge transmission, and experimental forms of performance, often in collaboration with independent artists and collectives.

Her works and interventions have been presented at national and international institutions and venues including MACBA, Mercat de les Flors, and Zagreb’s Glej Theater. In parallel, she has participated in artistic research projects associated with La Poderosa, La Caldera, INFRA-, and the Antoni Tàpies Foundation, among others.

Currently, her practice operates at the intersection of the body, movement, research, and the transmission of knowledge, developing projects that explore the political, perceptual, and relational dimensions of embodied experience.
 

Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (Barcelona, 1975) is an artist. In 1996, he founded the computer music project EVOL, which has been the core of much of his artistic output to date. His approach can be understood as an aesthetic exploration of algorithmic composition and a deconstruction of rave culture. His work has been released by international record companies such as Entr’acte, Mego, Presto!? and fals.ch and on his own record label, ALKU, which he co-directs with Anna Ramos since 1997. Straddling psychedelia and academia, Jiménez de Cisneros has presented his work live and in installation form at galleries, museums and clubs in Europe, North America and Asia.