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About Javier Ruiz
In 2017, Javier Ruiz dismantled the white cube at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía, not physically, but conceptually, by installing Teresa Margolles’ forensic textile interventions alongside AI-generated soundscapes from Barcelona-based collective Miquel Barceló Labs, sparking Spain’s first national debate on ethics in algorithmic curation. His 2022 exhibition 'Cuerpo en Línea' reconfigured gallery flow using real-time biometric data from visitors to shift lighting, wall text opacity, and audio narration, making audience physiology part of the artwork’s authorship. Trained in both art history and computational semiotics at Universidad Complutense and UPC Barcelona, Ruiz refuses digital tools as mere display aids; instead, he treats code as a curatorial medium with its own aesthetic lineage, tracing parallels between glitch aesthetics and Goya’s late etchings. He’s advised UNESCO on decolonial metadata standards for Iberian diaspora collections and co-founded the annual Seville Curatorial Hackathon, where conservators, flamenco scholars, and machine-learning engineers prototype hybrid interpretation systems rooted in Andalusian oral traditions.
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