Juan Pablo García Sossa is a designer, researcher, and expansive media artist. Juan / jpgs artistic research practice explores the shaping of cultures, realities, and worlds through the remix and re·appropriation of technologies from a Tropikós perspective (understanding the Tropics as both a region and a mindset). jpgs practice is deeply committed to pluriversing technologies towards techno·diversities and more-than-binary perma·computing. Through various netting projects such as Futura Trōpica Netroots, jpgs challenges the homogenising effects of globalism, emphasising relation in difference as in an interPlanetary patchwork of systems and cosmologies. jpgs has developed multiple curatorial projects on and around Post-Development, engaging with emerging digital cultures, grass-root popular cultures, collective intelligences, and the repositioning of realities, deeply informed by networked communities and their evolving creative, technological, and political strategies.
jpgs has been part of diverse research institutions and design studios such as SAVVY Contemporary The Laboratory of Form-Ideas in Berlin and Co-Director of Estación Terrena, a space for artistic research and pluriversing technologies at the electronic 9th avenue in Bogotá. jpgs is a 2020 Fellow at EYEBEAM, 2021 Web Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude and a 2022 Prince Claus CAREC fellow. In 2021 jpgs initiated Futura Trōpica Netroots an InterTropical Net of Grass-Root Local Networks connecting communities and nets of support and affection within the Tropical Belt (Latin America and the Caribbean, the African Continent, South Asia and South-East Asia ++). It is meant for the lateral exchange of other forms of knowledges, nets and technologies from a Tropikós perspective. In 2022 JPGS developed the curatorial research & netting project Magical Hackerism or The Elasticity of Resilience and co-curated Unraveling the (Under-) Development Complex | An Ode To Walter Rodney’s “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” 50 Years On (1972–2022) both at SAVVY Contemporary Berlin. jpgs is co-curator along with Neema Githere of transmediale 2026.