Canek Zapata
Canek Zapata (Mexico City, 1985)
Editor, curator and net art.
His work focuses on the exploration of automated models of writing, languages. visuals of the internet and net art. Studied at UNAM. He attended the 2016 Photographic Production Seminar of the Centro de la Imagen. He obtained the scholarship from the Fundación para las letras Mexicanas (2015-16). He has exhibited at the Centro de la Imagen, the Cuartelito, MUAC, the XIII FEMSA Biennial, Carrillo Gil Museum, Proyectos Multipropósitos, Aleph Festival and the Visual Art Center of the University of Texas in Austin. his work has been anthologized in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 4. He has curated exhibitions in the Libertad Gallery, the Museum of the City of Querétaro and the Oaxaca Book Fair, The Wrong Biennial 2019-20 and Casa Equis. He is an editor and programmer at the electronic literature publishing house https://brokenenglish.lol/ He was editor of the magazine 404 of the Centro de Cultura Digital. He was co-curator of Zona Hipermedial with Doreen A. Ríos, at the Centro de Cultura Digital. He is a specialist in digital culture, generative systems such as automatic writing and LLM, the internet art, glitch art and memes. He has published texts in Revista de la Universidad, PaperMag, Excelsior, horizontal, Revista 404.Tierra