Praba Pilar
**Praba Pilar** is a diasporic Colombian artist and scholar disrupting the ‘cult of the techno-logic’ through performances, digital and electronic installations, participatory workshops, writing, and experimental public talks. She is the Co-Director of the *Bioarts Ethical Advisory Komission*, an Emeritus Board Member of *Women Eco Artists Dialogue*, and collaborates on the post-human/microbiomial multi-species project *Larval Rock Stars* with Anuj Vaidya.* Her projects have traveled widely to museums, galleries, universities, performance festivals, conferences, public streets, political meetings, bookstores, bars, and radio airwaves - including the Museum of World Culture in Gothenberg, Sweden; el Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City; La Facultad de Bellas Artes, Altea, Spain; Kino Šiška in Ljubjiana, Slovenia; Toronto's McLuhan Center for Culture and Technology; Vancouver's LIVE BIENNALE; the Zero One Festival at ISEA; the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto; Galeria Studio Cerrillo in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art; *BAN 5* at Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena; the Oakland Museum of California, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the San Francisco Art Institute; Grace Performance Space in New York City; the Empire State Building in NYC; SIGGRAPH in South Korea; and many more; and in numerous conferences around the world including the *Society for Literature, Science, & the Arts*; the *Taboo, Transgression and Transcendence in Art & Science; CAA*; and as a work group leader of the *Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in the Americas* *Encuentros* in CDMX, Mexico; Santiago, Chile; and Montreal, Canada. Pilar's most recent awards include the 2025-27 *HUMAN (Humanities Understanding of the Machine Assisted Nexus) Fellowship and Residency* of Ragdale and Lake Forest College; a 2026 *Art and Research Residency* at the Ionian University in Corfu, Greece; 2024 *TTT Feral BioArt* *Residency* in Crete, Greece; a 2022 *Memes as Social Practice Residency* at UC Santa Cruz; a 2021 *Cultura Power* *Fellowship* of MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose, California; a 2020 *Community Rapid Response Award* of Headlands Center for the Arts; and in 2019 include the City of Emeryville *Community Grants Program*, the *Local Impact Award* of the California Arts Council and support from the National Endowment for the Arts.*