Creative Capital

Beatriz da Costa

Beatriz da Costa is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who works at the intersection of contemporary art, science, engineering, and politics. Her projects take the form of public participatory interventions, locative media, conceptual tool building, and critical writing. A former collaborator with Critical Art Ensemble and co-founder of Preemptive Media, an art, activism, and technology group, Da Costa’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including The Andy Warhol Museum, the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Germany, and the Natural History Museum in London. Her awards include commissions from Eyebeam and the Exploratorium, and grants from the Durfee Foundation and Adobe. Da Costa is an associate professor in the Arts Computation and Engineering graduate program at the University of California, Irvine.