Daniel García Andujar

(Alicante, 1966)

Artist. Through irony and the use of presentation strategies of new communication technologies, it questions the democratic and egalitarian promises of these media and criticizes the desire for control that they hide behind their apparent transparency. Starting from the realization that new communication technologies are transforming our daily experience, he creates a fiction in order to make us aware of the reality that surrounds us and the deception of promises of free choice that inevitably become new. forms of control and inequality. Historical member of irational.org (an international reference for art on the Internet), Founder of Technologies To The People and director of numerous Internet projects such as art.net.dortmund, e-barcelona.org or e-valencia.org. He has directed numerous workshops for artists and social groups in numerous countries.

He participated in Madialab Madrid banquet05 leading the workshop “Take the reins!” (March 11 to 15, 2002). This workshop was designed to learn how to develop one's own technological infrastructure, such as building an Internet platform using free open source software programs and technologies, such as the Linux operating system. Artist groups participated who have been developing, or helping to develop, autonomous platforms for artist collectives since the early 1990s.