{"data":{"id":"9516","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":9516,"topgoose_id":6303,"tms_id":9516,"display_name":"Beatriz daCosta","sort_name":"daCosta Beatriz","display_date":"1974–2012","begin_date":"1974","end_date":"2012","biography":"\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003eBeatriz da Costa (1974–2012) was an interdisciplinary artist and tactical media practitioner working at the intersection of contemporary art, science, engineering, and politics. She examined the role of the artist as a political actor engaged in technoscientific discourses, which is the subject of her 2008 book \u003cem\u003eTactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience\u003c/em\u003e, co-edited with Kavita Philip. A retrospective of her work, \u003cem\u003eBeatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics\u003c/em\u003e was presented in 2024 by the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery as part of the Getty’s initiative PST Art: \u003cem\u003eArt \u0026amp; Science Collide\u003c/em\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":true,"artport":true,"biennial":false,"collection":true,"ulan_id":null,"wikidata_id":null,"created_at":"2023-11-17T18:10:33.535-05:00","updated_at":"2026-04-13T15:42:11.870-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/9516/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/9516/exhibitions"}}}}