Pablo Somonte Ruano

  • Central America
  • Europe
  • Transnational
Ambiguous human figure walking down a colorful street

Pablo (Mexico City, 1992) works as a designer, programmer and artist creating ambiguous software, generative systems, transmedia narratives, collaborative tactics and odd music. Their practice explores prefigurative politics, alternative economies, structural violence, decentralized technologies and the commons, while engaging with the politics of computation, language, value, time and games.

Pablo is part of sudoraع A collective based in Bremen around sound, music and action. A core contributor to the Economic Space Agency (ECSA) an economic technology and imagination network for distributed economic agency . A participant in XORG a collective playing at the intersection of games and organizations . Half of the duo Actual Occasions An ongoing sound & distribution exploratory practice inspired by philosophies of affect, materiality and modulation. A member of the Crypto Commons Association (CCA) A non-profit organization exploring the use of distributed ledger technologies for furthering the commons. A member of the Liberatory Computing Front: a loose collective of researchers, artists, and activists working to liberate computing from capitalism.

Pablo's worked has been presented in various places in Mexico and Europe including Casa del Lago UNAM CDMX, Centro de Cultura Digital CDMX, Museo Tamayo CDMX, Centro Cultural Tlatelolco, Spedition Bremen Deichtorhallen Hamburg, STRP Festival Eindhoven, Panke Gallery Berlin, Matadero Medialab Madrid and MFRU International Festival for Computer Arts, Maribor among others.