SEBASTIAN
GUZMAN OLMOS


Sebastian Guzman Olmos (he/him) is an Argentine transdisciplinary designer, researcher, and curator currently based in Amsterdam. His research and discourse interests include class-critical practice, political ecology,  decolonial thinking and overcoming capitalist conditions. Often materializing in diverse methodologies, pedagogies and organizational efforts.

He is part of the research team ORGA’. Sebastian formerly studied at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Media and Culture Department. Additional non-institutional curricula include The People's Forum, New York City,  Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin and Progressive International (PI). Now, he participates in the research programme Organismo at TBA21.



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS


Design by Nature, Museum de Fundatie
ZWOLLE, NETHERLANDS 10.07—03.10.2021
The Exploded View, Design Museum Ghent GHENT, BELGIUM 15.04—22.06.2021
Symbiosis Festival, BlueCity
ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS 27—29.11.2020
The Exploded View, Dutch Design Week EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS 17—25.10.2020
CIRCULAR> MATERIALISTS., Kazerne
EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS 19.10.2019—30.03.2020
AiR Het Wilde Oosten, Artots
DEN BOSCH, NETHERLANDS 29—30.08.2020
Biomaterials Archive, Dutch Design Week
EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS 19—27.10.2019
Now & Beyond, Bruxelles Environnement
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM 24.04.2019
Aggregat, IMM Cologne
COLOGNE, GERMANY 14—20.01.2019

CURATORIAL PRACTICE


Tapping Water, Sandberg Instituut AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS 18/24.04, 12.05.2023
Positioned Realities, Haus der Statistik BERLIN, GERMANY 04—27.03.2022
All Good(s), Gr_und
BERLIN, GERMANY 07—11.07.2021
(Non)Depleted, Gr_und
AND BERLIN DESIGN WEEK. BERLIN, GERMANY 16.04—30.05.2021
(Non)Depleted, Dutch Design Week
EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS 17—25.10.2020



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AUTONOMY_JS


This interactive installation inspired in the identity of the late 80s and the early 90s Rave movement. It is transforming the scenery through light and the interplays between people and machine learning. It is designed to be used as a stand-alone object or part of a communitarian visual-installation that reacts to body movement, not music, emphasizing the era’s aesthetics of form: post-industrialism—aiming to look aesthetically relevant.

An endeavor to revisit and explore the core notions of this movement: autonomy, technology, creativity, and civil liberty. Rave as a movement of such proportion remains unpacked mainly as a cultural phenomenon. Mainly focusing on Autonomy/Civil liberty: Raves themselves have been theorized as what anarcho-theorist Hakim Bey defines as “Temporary Autonomous Zones.” Its own logic is based on the collective. It stood for the communitarian we, in opposition to neoliberal individualism’s atomization, providing an ‘open’ infrastructure for culture and self-expression.
2019, with the tutoring of RNDR and Manuel Beltrán. Photograpy by Sebastian Guzman Olmos.
EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS