Zach Blas: On CULTUS, AI Religiosity, and the Silicon Traces Trilogy

​​Season 3 of Artwrld Sesions is presented in partnership with Rhizome, the international hub for new media art.

​​Each session is recorded for a live online audience and co-presented by Michael Connor, Executive Director of Rhizome, and Josh Goldblum, Artwrld Founder and CEO. This week we welcome internationally acclaimed artist Zach Blas to present "On CULTUS, AI Religiosity, and the Silicon Traces Trilogy."

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​About Zach Blas
Zach Blas is an artist, writer, and filmmaker whose practice contends with computational technologies, their industries, and the powers that constitute and animate them.

Blas has exhibited in major international exhibitions including the 82nd Whitney Biennial, New York (2026); 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2022); and 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018). He has also presented solo exhibitions at Vienna Secession (2024); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2020); Abierto x Obras, Matadero Madrid (2018); and Gasworks, London (2017).

​His publications include the artist book Ass of God: Collected Heretical Writings of Salb Hacz (Vienna Secession and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2024) and the artist monograph Unknown Ideals (Sternberg Press and Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg, 2021).

​With Melody Jue and Jennifer Rhee, he is co-editor of Informatics of Domination (Duke University, 2025). Blas is an Assistant Professor of Visual Studies in the Daniels Faculty at the University of Toronto.