Jara Rocha is a researcher at The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI) on Infrastructural Rehearsals and works across grounded and complex forms of distribution of the technological with an enby, antifa and trans*feminist sensibility. They tend to find themself in tasks of writing, remediation, editing, action-research and in(ter)dependent curating. Their main areas of experimentation have to do with the semiotic-material conditions of possibility for regenerative justice.
They are an associate member of TITiPI, The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest and in such framework have participated for example in the recent production of a Bug Report to Frontier Climate (Logic(s) magazine, forthcoming 2025). With Femke Snelting they published the book “Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence” (Open Humanities Press, 2022) and also with Helen Pritchard they worked on the projects The Underground Division and Queering Damage. With Karl Moubarak and Cristina Cochior they form the Digital Discomfort Working Group (fellowship for situated practice BAK, 2021–22), and with Nicolas Malevé they co-edited the 23rd issue of the journal Concreta, under the title “The Active Composition of Presence” which is also related to their ongoing project at MACBA, High latencies. They were also 2023 InfraMaintenance Fellow at Hangar / La Virreina with the project LaaS (Life as a Service), and are an active part of the curatorial board of La Capella art center.
Previously they have circulated their work in contexts as diverse as Constant Association for Arts and Media, varia center for everyday technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sonic Acts, Hamaca, Centro Cultural de España Lima, ZEMOS98, LUMA Arles, Goldsmiths University of London, Bólit Girona, Linnaeus University, Sandberg Instituut, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Guggenheim Bilbao, Reina Sofía Museum, Casa Mario Montevideo or transmediale. They live in Barcelona, where they develop their pedagogical practice at ESCAC film school and their program “Naturoculturas son Disturbios” is erratically broadcasted from the local community radio Dublab.
