Kaspar RavelFR
Kaspar Ravel (they/them) is an artist, teacher, and researcher in tactical new media. Their work draws on a tradition of art movements that combine symbolic activism with practical approaches, creating opportunities between subtle gestures and concrete actions.
As a self-taught coder and DIY hacker, their intention to demystify technology brings them to promote low-tech cultures and digital literacy in educational contexts, such as workshops, tutorials and micro-edition. Today, they aspire to develop discursive and programmatic tools for resistance against the veil of big data and the yoke of globalised surveillance. Their research takes the form of 'poelitical' experiments, merging poetic expression with political critique within interactive articles and installation artworks.
Currently, they are leading a research residency at Sorbonne University (2022 2025), of which the second year was focused on nuclear semiotics; designing messages to warn future generations (in a million years) about the dangers of our nuclear waste burial sites. This work, exhibited at the Theatre de la Ville in Paris last summer, prompted their future participation in a multidisciplinary work group at ANDRA, the French national waste management agency. When not immersed in all the above, Kaspar spends their time taking care of plants, thrifting with friends, and occasionally performing DJ sets on independent radio stations like Kiosk, Lyl, and Egregore.
