bernat cuní

artsy leftist geekism

I'm an artist working with code, crafts, and robots to explore the digitization of objects and spaces.

Currently experimenting with artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and digital craftsmanship.

I explore creative applications of emerging technologies from a post-capitalist lens.

I began my career as an industrial designer (1999), but feeling uncomfortable with the extractive and consumerist agenda of producing physical items, I switched to research-based design practices to focus on people rather than products.

From 2005-2010 I was in Hong Kong running sustainability projects and managing a design incubator at the School of Design at the HK Polytechnic University.

After returning to Barcelona, I worked with digital fabrication technologies for their potential to democratise access to the means of production; and participated in several EU research projects, and launched a couple of startups.

Since 2019, I'm focused on artistic practice as a space to develop experimental and technology-based projects beyond corporate solutionism.

Some residencies include SNAP.inc and Runway, software companies where I developed artistic projects using AI and augmented reality tools.