About
SAM GHANTOUS
His recent work focuses on the relationship between computing and the materials, geographies, and temporal systems that sustain it. By looking at sand, he makes connections between silicon chips, golf, clocks, and artificial islands, questioning narratives of technological immateriality, efficiency, and inevitable advancement.
Recent exhibitions include Victoria and Albert Museum, YveYANG Gallery, Postmasters Gallery, A83, SPRING/BREAK, ZKM at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, ASSAB One in Milan, MODEL Festival in Barcelona, OōEli Art Park in Hangzhou and Art Basel Hong Kong.
He was formerly a co-founder of FOREIGN OBJECTS, a multidisciplinary design and research studio. They have won the Mozilla Creative Media Award, NEW INC Residency, and the Bard Digital Artist in Residency. They have presented work with the Internet Archive, New Museum, Open City Doc in London, and worked on projects for Shannon Mattern, and Rhizome.
Sam holds a Master of Architecture from MIT and is currently a Lecturer teaching and researching in the Chair of Art in Space and Time with Rosa Barba at ETH Zürich. He has taught at Cornell, University of Toronto, MIT and ETH and his work has been published in Thresholds Journal, PLAT Journal, and Trans Magazin.
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