Beatriz daCosta

1974–2012

Beatriz 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 Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience, co-edited with Kavita Philip. A retrospective of her work, Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics was presented in 2024 by the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery as part of the Getty’s initiative PST Art: Art & Science Collide.

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