Paula Gaetano Adi is an Argentine-born artist working in robotics, sculpture and performance. Her practice calls for a new technical imagination that radically attends to the world-making capacity of both technology and the arts. Opening up an alternative poetics-politics and attending to the messy entanglements in which the human and nonhuman are inextricable linked, Gaetano Adi’s robotic work draws from diverse situated, relational and vernacular technological practices and stresses a praxis of living and being that considers intelligence and the human as irrevocably embodied, collective and affective.

Paula Geatano Adi has exhibited and showcased work extensively in museums, conferences, and art festivals throughout Europe, Asia, and  the Americas, in locales such as the National Art Museum of China, Matadero Madrid, MejanLabs Gallery Stockholm, SECS Sao Paulo, Vancouver National Art Gallery, Pera Museum Istanbul, Centro Nacional de las Artes Mexico, Ars Electronica, among others. Gaetano Adi’s robot Alexitimia was awarded with the first prize in the international competition VIDA, Art & Artificial Life and the first prize LIMBØ by the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, and her Mestizo Robotics long-term project has been distinguished with Fundación Telefónica’s Award for Ibero-American artists. Creative Capital Awardee and former fellow at Argentina’s National Endowment for the Arts, the Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance at UCLA and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s EMPAC, she currently lives between San Juan, Argentina and Providence, RI where she is Professor of Experimental & Foundation Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).