Beatriz da Costa

Beatriz da Costa (11 June 1974 – 27 December 2012) was an interdisciplinary artist known for her work at the intersection of contemporary art, science, engineering, and politics. Her projects took the form of public interventions and workshops, conceptual tool building, and critical writing.

Publications

• with Claire Pentecost, "Of Patriots and Profits: New Tools for Keeping Academic Research in Line", Radical History Review 93, Spring 2005, pp 111-121.
• as Preemptive Media (with Jamie Schulte and Brooke Singer), "Surveillance Creep! Surveillance Creep! New Manifestations of Data Surveillance at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century", Radical History Review 95, Spring 2006, pp 70-88.
• editor, with Kavita Philip, Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience, MIT Press, 2008, 504 pp.

Links

• Website
• Discussion with Donna Haraway, Catherine Lord and Alexandra Juhasz on the life and work of Beatriz da Costa, Laguna Art Museum, Sep 2013
• Wikipedia