Jose Luis de Vicente

Jose Luis de Vicente is a curator, cultural researcher and artistic director based In Barcelona and working internationally. His work explores the space between social innovation, new ecological practices and the aesthetics and politics of computation.

He is, along with Eva Franch I Gilabert, the cofounder and principal of FAST, a transdisciplinary curatorial platform and design lab dedicated to addressing current and future challenges through the convergence of culture, technology, architecture, and design. Previously De Vicente was director of DHUB, Barcelona’s Design Museum, for Design, and founder and artistic director of Sónar+D, the culture and arts program of the acclaimed Sónar Festival.

He was cofounder and codirector of MODEL, Barcelona’s festival of Architectures, and Tentacular, a festival of Critical Technologies and Digital Adventures in Matadero (Madrid). He has been curator of FutureEverything Festival (Manchester) and LlumBCN, Barcelona’s festival of Light Arts. He also initiated and directed the Visualizar Program on Data Culture at Madrid’s pioneering citizen lab, Medialab Prado.

He has curated more than 25 exhibitions in institutions across the whole planet including museums and cultural centers like CCCB (Barcelona), ArtsScience Museum (Singapore), Somerset House (London), MIT Museum (Cambridge, US), Museo Reina Sofia and Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Madrid), among many others. These include the internationally touring exhibition “Big Bang Data”, presented in more than 10 cities. “Radical Curiosity: in the Orbit of Buckminster Fuller”, a reinterpretation of the legacy of the visionary architect; “After the End of the World”, an spatial essay on the trauma of the climate crisis, and the permanent installation “Mirador Torre Glories”. His most recent projects include “Atmospheric Memory”, an immersive art environment by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, presented at Powerhouse (Sydney), “The Ocean Speaks: New Ecologies and New Economies of the Seas”, at DHUB in 2024, and “Echoes of the Ocean” at Telefónica, 2025.

de Vicente has lectured internationally on digital aesthetics and politics, cultural laboratories and the impact of the arts on the ecosystems of innovation, including forums like Ars Electronica, Transmediale, the COP25 Climate summit, the Venice Biennale, The New European Bauhaus festival, Mutek, Primavera Sound, and many more.

His work has appeared in The Guardian, the New York Times, BBC, Wired, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Monocle, Domus, Creative Applications, BoingBoing, and others.