Pat Badani
Birthdate: 1951
Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Based location: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
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Pat Badani ISEA Archive profile
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Biography
Pat Badani (1951, Argentina)
Pat Badani is an Argentinian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist, writer, and scholar based in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She holds a BFA from the University of Alberta (Canada) and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited and participated in several art, technology, and science platforms across the Americas, Europe, and Asia including the International Society on Electronic/Emerging Art (ISEA), Transmediale, ELO, FILE, CURRENTS, and others. Her scholarly work has circulated institutions such as iDAT Plymouth University (U.K.), Università di Bologna (Italy), Institute of Cultural Studies ZHdK Zurich (Switzerland), NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, N.Y. (USA), Art/Sci Center + Lab, UCLA (USA), University of Toronto (Canada), University of Sydney (Australia), Universidad de Caldas (Colombia), and Universidade Anhembi Morumbi (Brazil). Her projects have been distinguished with over 20 awards from the Canada Council for the Arts; Illinois Arts Council; DCASE; and others. Critical essays analyzing Badani's works have been published in three languages in exhibition catalogues, journals, and in art theory anthologies. Examples include “The Performing Observer: Writings on Contemporary Art, Performance, and Photography”, Dr. Martin Patrick, Intellect Press, 2022; “Advances in Visual Methodology,” Ed: Dr. Sarah Pink, Sage, 2012; “Extranjeros en la Tecnología y en la Cultura,” Ed: Dr. Néstor García Canclini, Fundación Telefónica, 2009; and "Of Borders & Bridges", Dr. Andrea Giunta, Jrp/Ringier, 2009.
In her artistic practice, Pat Badani explores the intersection of media art, science, and technology to address environmental and social issues. She often uses food as a medium to create artistic arguments that blend aesthetics and criticism, examining connections between art as object, medium, and critique of political and technological networks. Pat’s work has been showcased at solo exhibitions such as BichEden:ParaDoxa (Harvestwoks, New York, USA, 2025); Tower-Tour (Canadian Cultural Center, Paris, France, 1997); R’evolution des Particules (Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, France, 1994); and Imagen/Objeto (MARCO-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico, 1986). Her work has also has been part of curated collective exhibitions such as Arts in Movement (28th annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College, USA, 2025); Re: Generative (XXIV Festival Internacional de la Imagen (Bogotá/ Manizales, Colombia, 2025); Digital Sustainability: From Resilience to Transformation (Kingston University Stanley Picker Gallery, London, England, 2022); B-Side Biennial for Digital Art and Contemporary Culture’22, (Manheim, Germany, 2022); and Extranjerías (Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009).
Tower/Torre/Tour
Bowls and trays made of bread
1997
100 x 350 x 300 cm.
Image courtesy of the artist
Solo exhibitions
Pat Badani Solo Exhibition BichEden:ParaDoxa, presented at Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center, New York, USA, 2025.
Pat Badani Solo Exhibition make-A-move, presented at TOPO Center for Digital Creation, Montreal, Canada, 2015 (in French).
Pat Badani Solo Exhibition in-time-time, curated by Dr. Martin Patrick, presented at the Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, USA, 2009.
Pat Badani Solo Exhibition Where Life is Better, I space, presented at the Chicago Gallery of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2003.
Pat Badani Solo Exhibition Tower-Tour, co-curated by Catherine Bedard and Christophe Domino, presented at the Canadian Cultural Center, Cultural Services of the Canadian Embassy, Paris, France, 1997.
Pat Badani Solo Exhibition R’evolution des Particules, curated by Jacques Leenhardt, presented at the Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, France, 1994.
Pat Badani Solo Exhibition Ruinas de Olor Líquido, presented at the Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico, 1988 (in Spanish).
Collective exhibitions
Pat Badani Collective Exhibition Arts in Movement (28th annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival). Juried exhibition showing “Where are you from?_Stories”, Ithaca College, USA, 2025
Pat Badani Collective Exhibition Re: Generative (XXIV Festival Internacional de la Imagen). Invited artists, showing “BichEden: Oceanic Banquet”, Bogotá/ Manizales, Colombia, 2025 (in Spanish)
Pat Badani Collective exhibition Ripples Across latent Spaces, VINCI (International Symposium on Visual Information, Communication, and Interaction). Juried exhibition showing “BichEden: Folds”, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China, 2023.
Pat Badani Collective Exhibition ELO-Italia (Electronic Literature Organization). Juried Festival showing “Comestible 7-Day Meal Plan: Food as Text,” Como, Italy, 2022.
Pat Badani Collective Exhibition Digital Sustainability: From Resilience to Transformation. Juried exhibition showing “Bichicuchity” and Bichicu-Chow”, Kingston University Stanley Picker Gallery, London, England, 2022.
Pat Badani Collective Exhibition B-Seite Biennial Festival / Version 1.4/21. Juried exhibition showing “Bichicuchitu & Bichicu-Chow,” Mannheim, Germany, 2021 (in German).
Pat Badani collective exhibition Un-Continuity Electronic Literature Organization. Juried Festival showing “ComestibleMeal Plan: Weave,” University of Central Florida, USA, 2020.
Pat Badani Collective Exhibition WOWretro-the retrospective 2000-2020, at Javamuseum New Media Fest, Aferro Gallery Newark/NJ, USA CeC-Carnival of eCreativity, Sattal/India, February, 2020
Pat Badani Collective Exhibition Extranjerías, Espacio Fundación Telefónica. Invitational exhibition showing “Where are you from?_Stories”, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009 (in Spanish).
Pat Badani collective exhibition Hipermedias / Hypermedias, FILE 2005 (Electronic Language International Festival. Juried Festival showing “Where are you from?_Stories”, Centro Cultural FIESP, São Paulo, Brazil, 2005.
Pat Badani Collective exhibition Revelations, ISEA2000 (10th International Symposium on Electronic Art). Juried Festival showing “Home Transfer”, Forum des Images, Paris, France, 2000.
Pat Badani Collective Exhibition Home Transfer, ISEA2000 (10th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Forum des Images, Paris, France, 2000.
Interviews
Pat Badani Interview Netweaving at CAA 2025 by The Art Equation Podcast, hosted by art historian and curator Patricia Ortega- Miranda, part of the “Now Be Here” Project, 2025
Pat Badani, Home Transfer (2000), a Gaming Recipe by Pat Badani, interview by Claudia Costa Pederson for Artelogie # 20/10 Ans, 2023.
Pat Badani Interview about “Formas de Pensar Mundos” exhibited during Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia, 2014
Pat Badani Interview about Where are you from?_Stories, exhibited in “Extranjerías”, curated by Néstor García Canclini and Andrea Giunta, Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2009
Presentations
Pat Badani Presentation The “Bichi Project”, materiality, immaterialities, realities, intelligence, and data, at the 113 CAA (College Art Association of America) Annual Conference: Enchantments, Transmissions, Infections: A Poetics of Knowledge by Latin American Women Artists, New York City, 2025
Pat Badani Presentation The “Bichi” Project Symbiotic Food Networks & the Alchemist Kitchen, organised by Le Cube Garges and the École des Arts Décoratifs at the 28th International Symposium on Electronic Art “ISEA 2023 Symbiosis”, Paris, France, 2023
Pat Badani Presentation Comestible 7-Day Meal Plan: Food as Text, an Ecological Manifesto part of the proposal for the Art Festival on E2Lit, Published by “Afterimage”, Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol. 47, Number 4, pages 78–81, UC Press, 2022
Pat Badani Presentation Cátedra Balance-Unbalance Arte y Clima, Session #7 at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá, Colombia, 2022 (in Spanish)
Pat Badani Presentation New Media Heritage, at the International Online Congress on Education and New Media, Biannual event hostelería by Anilla Cultural Latinoamérica-Europa in Uruguay, 2020
Pat Badani Presentation La comida como texto: Cultura(s) entrelazadas, presented at the MediaLab Brasil, Eventos HUB (#19 ART/SIIMI/DAT/Retina), part of the discussion panel “Entrelazamientos estéticos” (Aesthetic Entanglements), at the Centro de Experimentación e Investigacion en Artes Electrónicas UNTREF, 2020 (in English and Spanish)
Pat Badani Presentation Creative Recoding: Big Ideas and Bite-Sized Morsels Lecture, Part of the RiDE 2014/2015 conferences at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Pratt University, USA, April 2015
Pat Badani Presentation Sustainable agriculture / sustainable culture, at the BALANCE-UNBALANCE [Arts + Science x Technology = Environment/ Responsibility] conference at the Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2011
Published work by Pat Badani
Pat Badani Latin American Media Art Temporary Library, an interview with Alessandro Ludovico and Andrés Burbano By Pat Badani at ISEA2017 Manizales, Colombia, edited by Victoria Bradbury, published by New Media Caucus (NMC) Association, September 2017
Pat Badani article Deslocalidades, translocalidades y activismo en el arte electrónico y biomedial latinoamericano. Artelogie, Vol 11, 2017.
Pat Badani, Editorial Statement, Mestizo Technology: Art, Design, and Technoscience in Latin America, Spring 2016 : V. 12 N. 1.
Pat Badani Roderick Coover in conversation with Pat Badani on “Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project” screened at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Published by Media-N journal of the New Media Caucus, by the Illinois Library, Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2016
Published work about Pat Badani
Pat Badani “Comestible 7-Day Meal Plan: Food as Text, by Pat Badani”, Afterimage Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Volume 47, Issue#4. University of California Press (December 24, 2020). Text by Claudia Costa Pederson.
Pat Badani Transgenic Culture and Global Art: Pat Badani's Al Grano Project, New Aesthetics Review, by Catherine Bédard, Published by Cairn.info Platform for French-Language Scientific Publications Volume #8, 2011 (in French)
Pat Badani Pat Badani Centro Cultural Canadiense, by Tatiana Villegas, Published by ArtNexus Volume 26: Arte en Colombia 7, Sep - Dec 1997 (in Spanish)
Pat Badani Pat Badani: 1983-1984, Owens Art Gallery Publications, from the exhibition Pat Badani: 1983-1984 held at the Owens Art Gallery from 26 August to 28 September 1985, Sackville, NB, Canada, 1984. Introductory essay by Herménegilde Chaisson.
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List of Grants, Awards and Projects
Pat Badani Artist Residency LABVERDE “Speculative Ecologies”, in partnership with the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), Amazon State, Brazil, 2025
Pat Badani Artist Residency 2024 New Works Artist Residencies, at the Harvestworks TEAM (Technology, Engineering, Art and Music) Lab, Broadway, NY, USA, 2024
Pat Badani Grant Canada Council for the Arts Grant, Concept to Realization / Explore and Create Program, Canada Council, 2024
Pat Badani project ISEA 2022 Possibles, Team member of the ISEA International Symposium at the University of Brighton (UK), as Lead Editor of the Artelogy Volume 11 and director of “Al Grano” project, 2022
Pat Badani Project HOME TRANSFER, selected and screened at ISEA International 2000, at RHIZOME ArtBase, Edited by Rhizome Staff, September 2004