Diego Gómez-Venegas is a media researcher and media artist based in Berlin. He studies the processes of knowledge formation, the reconfiguration of power flows, and the constitution of collective wholes that media technologies may activate and set in motion.
Some of his writings are “Techno-Diagrammatics: An Experimental Inquiry into Cybernetic Modes of Organisation?” in Proceedings of the POM 2024 Conference (Swindon, 2025), Forecasting the Present (Berlin, 2024), “Forgetting / Cybernetics” in History of Media Studies (Pennsylvania, 2024), “Encoding from/to the Real: On Cybersyn’s Symbolic Politics of Transmission,” in Frictions (Lüneburg, 2023), “Towards the Operative Objects of Post-Capitalism,” with Zerené and Cotoras, in APRJA (Aarhus, 2021), and “Cybersyn and the symbolic memory of paper” in Artnodes (Barcelona, 2019).
Diego is the editor of the volume Frictions: Inquiries into Cybernetic Thinking and Its Attempts towards Mate[real]ization, published by meson press in 2023 – the digital, Open Access version of which can be downloaded here. This publication was possible thanks to the financial support of Humboldt University’s Open Access Program.
In late 2019 and early 2020 – just before the pandemic – Diego conceived and organized a lecture series called Applied Cybernetics, which, sponsored by the Humboldt University and the Technical University of Berlin, took place in Berlin both at the Media Theater of the Humboldt University and at the Einstein Center Digital Future.
Previously, until February 2018, Diego was an assistant professor at the University of Chile, in Santiago. There, he taught in the undergraduate design program of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, as well as in the master’s program in media arts of the Faculty of the Arts. Through these appointments, he supervised more than 20 thesis projects. During this period, Diego also developed art-research projects at the intersection of media arts and experimental design; all, as a mode of inquiry into media cultures and the techno-logical apparatuses that sustain them. Examples of this are Searching for Euclid (Santiago, 2016), Informe (Santiago, 2016), Algorithmic Mediations for Agonism (Santiago, 2016), and Remoteness of Light (Reykjavík, 2015).
Diego was also the responsible editor of the inaugural issue of the journal Canal: cuadernos de estudios visuales y mediales (Santiago, 2017); co-editor of the book Aciclopedia: Compendium on Form Beyond Canon (Santiago, 2017); and co-author and co-editor of the book Mediaciones Algorítmicas para el Agonismo (Santiago, 2016). Similarly, he is the translator of Mieke Bal’s “El compromiso con el mirar” for Canal 2-3 (Santiago, 2019), and the author of “Experimental Design as Archaeological Practice” in Diseña (Santiago, 2018); “La máquina abierta – una máquina odisea” in Qual Quelle (Santiago, 2018); and co-author of “Nature Ex-Novo” in Kepes (Manizales, 2017).
Diego holds a PhD (Dr. phil.) in Media Studies (Medienwissenschaft) from Humboldt University of Berlin and an MFA in Design Media Arts from UCLA.
email: diego[at]gomezvenegas[dot]com
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