Zach Blas is an artist and theorist whose work engages technology, queerness, and politics. His teaching and research interests include contemporary art and activism, media theory, science and technology studies, queer and feminist theory, visual cultures, political philosophy, and critical theory. He is the creator of Facial Weaponization Suite, the art group Queer Technologies, and a founding member of The Public School Durham, an experimental, artist-run educational center that is free and open to the public. Currently, Blas is producing two books, an artist monograph of recent work and a theoretical study of “informatic opacity” that considers biometric facial recognition as an emerging form of global governance alongside aesthetico-political refusals of recognition, such as masked protest. Blas has exhibited and lectured in over 15 countries, recently at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; the 2014 Museum of Arts and Design Biennial, New York; the 2014 Dakar Biennial, Dakar; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Queer/Art/Film LA, Los Angeles; quartier21 / MuseumsQuartier Wien, Vienna; Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; transmediale, Berlin; and Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool. In 2014, he was a resident at Eyebeam in New York, The White Building in London, and The Moving Museum in Istanbul. Blas has written extensively for a variety of scholarly, experimental, and artistic publications, including The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Women Studies Quarterly, AI & Society, Media-N, DIS Magazine, No More Potlucks, Version, Interventions, as well as the anthologies You are Here: Art after the Internet, Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader, and Leper Creativity. He is co-editor of The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities, Atropos Press. His work has been written about and featured in Frieze, Art Papers, Mousse Magazine, Hyperallergic, Rhizome, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera America, Libération, The New Inquiry, Vice, Wired, and Art Review, in which Hito Steyerl selected him as a 2014 Future Great. Blas holds a PhD from the Graduate Program in Literature at Duke University and a MFA in Design Media Arts from UCLA.