Joaquina Salgado: Trans-Media Artist Interrogating Digital Consciousness

Joaquina Salgado is a Berlin-based Trans-Media artist whose interdisciplinary practice delves into the entangled relationships between technology, the human body, and digital consciousness. Born in Argentina in 1995, Joaquina Salgado works at the specialized intersection of art and science to create interactive installations, interfaces, and virtual environments. Her work often interrogates the nuances of identity, memory, and perception within complex technological systems, utilizing digital sculpting, photogrammetry, and real-time technologies. Significant projects in the portfolio of Joaquina Salgado include Reserva Digital, her first solo exhibition which debuted at Centro Nave in Chile, presenting a speculative ecosystem of digital species bridging affective and control technologies. At Goldsmiths University of London, she developed Water Nodes, a motion-capture-based exploration of water’s poetic and political dimensions. Another notable work, DERIVA, created during a Pro Helvetia residency, utilizes performer-driven motion data in an audiovisual performance format. Her collaborative installation Hidrontes, alongside sound artist QOA, explores multispecies alliances and aquatic resonances, reflecting on the environmental and political implications of our relationship with the machine. Joaquina Salgado has showcased her work at prestigious international platforms, including MUTEK in Buenos Aires and Montreal, the APAP7 Triennial in Korea, and Berlin Art Week. Her academic background from the Universidad de Artes de La Plata underpins her exploration of synthetic environments and techno-scientific mythmaking, envisioning soft, amorphous technologies connected to nature and poetry. Through a world-building lens, Joaquina Salgado encourages viewers to reimagine the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds, exploring how humanity moves toward greater intimacy with the mechanical other.