Martin Nadal

Martin Nadal is an artist and creative coder based in Linz. In the past years he has produced a variety of art projects and taught workshops mainly related to money, blockchain and surveillance. His work has been exhibited or produced at: ZKM (DE) IAMAS (JP), CAC (CN) Ars Electronica (AT), WRO (PL), Piksel (NO), Radical Networks (US). His projects talk about how technology shapes society, creating artistic artworks with technology from a critical point of view. Following this line of research he has developed works such as “Money Never Sleeps”, which talks about the role of the drug overuse of the financial elites in the 2008 crisis and “Death of Things”, an artwork about how technology will survive humans.

In the last years he has been researching blockchain technology with an artistic approach. Together with César Escudero they have written the paper “Critical Mining”, and also produced the artwork “Bittercoin, the worst miner ever”. During his stay in IAMAS, Japan, he developed the work “Bitcoin Traces”. Interested in creating a work that would use artificial intelligence and have some political meaning, he created “Salvapatrias”, reflecting on the concept of homeland and the role of the flag in its construction. A flag symbolizes both belonging and exclusion, it marks property and draws a line between nationalities. He has used this symbolism to point out political problems in Europe.

Martin is a resident at Onassis Stegi for 2020, in the context of the European Media Artists in Residence (EMARE) program of the European Media Arts Platform (EMAP), funded by Creative Europe.