Geo Barcan
design - ecologie - experimenteel - film - installatie - publicatie - schrijven
Geo Barcan is a Romanian visual artist and writer based in Rotterdam. In her work, Geo engages with multiple mediums such as filmmaking, design, installation art, writing, web-based art and performance. She weaves ecological thought and vegetality with media theory in her research, speculating on ways in which technology and nature can non-destructively co-exist. Geo's praxis is rooted in storytelling and (auto)fiction, in surfacing the miraculous out of the ordinary by working with what is to be found at the margins of thought, such as small or vegetal beings. She is also interested in the internet's and new media's transformative impact on different communities. Geo founded Film Mai Aproape Summer School in Romania, a free, alternative visual arts education program dedicated to teenagers. From 2023 she is also part of the Rotterdam-based artist studio called SHED.