Research Catalogue

Jaret Vadera is an artist and cultural producer working between New York, Toronto, and India. Through his interdisciplinary practice, Vadera explores the poetics of translation, and the politics of vision.

In parallel to his exhibition career, he has worked as an organizer, programmer, curator, researcher, writer, editor, educator, and designer on projects that focus on using art as a catalyst for social change / justice. He has organized a number of exhibitions, events, and collaborative experiments including 1-1=1: Experimental Video / Art at the Alwan Film Festival; Shifting Shapes - Unstable Signs at Yale University; and Ghosts and Machines as Rush Arts Gallery.

Vadera completed his undergraduate education at Ontario College of Art and Design, and Cooper Union. Receiving his Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Art.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Abstraction, Visual Culture/s, and the Poetics of Translation;

Meaning, Materials, and Metaphor - Conceptual Strategies and Interdisciplinary Practices; Deconstructing Aesthetics of Progress, Decapitalizing time, and Decolonizing Vision;

Shapeshifters and Tricksters;

The Poetics of Entropy;

Vision, Technology, Algorithms, Camouflage, and Power;

Other Spaces;

The Technological Sublime