In this video we visit the studio of Moises Sanabria on the occasion of the Open Studio event at the Bakehouse Art Complex during Miami Art Week 2025. Moises Sanabria (born August 6, 1990) is a Venezuelan-born, Miami-based interdisciplinary artist renowned for his Post-internet sculptures, new media installations, software development, curating, and publishing. Raised in Venezuela before relocating to Miami, Sanabria grew up during the rise of the digital age, developing a deep interest in technology's impact on human experience. Largely self-taught in art, he explored digital mediums and meme culture through online communities. He studied at the New World School of the Arts (2009–2011), the School for Poetic Computation (2013), and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Cooper Union in New York (2015). Additional training included Gene Kogan's "The Neural Aesthetic" at the School of Machines in Berlin and programs at the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center.
Sanabria's practice blends humor, satire, and critique, merging academic aesthetics with internet meme culture. His works investigate memory, value, identity, and technological advancement using AI, live-streaming, video, and installations. Notable pieces include "5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte" (a hard drive containing pirated software worth $5 million), "VR Hug" (a photograph of two people in VR headsets embracing), and "McDonald Brass Knuckles" (brass knuckles shaped like the McDonald's logo).
He co-founded the AI media channel AI24 and was a member of the digital art collective ART404. His work debuted internationally in 2012 at Transmediale in Berlin and has since been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (2015), Kunsthalle Giessen (2018), Untitled Art Fair Miami (2022), and HODLER Gallery (2023). Sanabria's projects have garnered press in Rhizome, Wired, The Guardian, and Forbes. In 2012, he received a Webby Award for "Social Weird - Sad Tweets," cementing his influence in digital art and media critique.
Moises Sanabria. Studio Visit. Bakehouse Art Complex Baker’s Brunch: Open Studio + Cafecito. Miami (USA), December 4, 2025.
00:00There has to be some middle ground, but I see myself, not in a stroller, but in my own, you know, environment with these things.
00:10Of course.
00:14My name is Moises Zanabria and I'm a creative technologist and sculptor using ready-mades and assemblets.
00:22Here are, this is my studio at the amazing Bakehouse Art Complex.
00:27We're here at the brunch and I focus on materializing the internet.
00:33Like how do you bring the digital into the physical space to texture objects, material, weight.
00:39And I'm really interested in taking these objects and speaking about, for example, future generations.
00:46Like what does it mean to grow up with AI in the same way that I grew up with the internet, those generational gaps.
00:53And in a way, like with birth AI, like what does it mean to using these mass data sets, train these, you know, newer species.
01:03Like where, where is that taking us and how do we create a space to talk about it?
01:07This piece, for example, is one of my newer works in collaboration with my wife, Javiola.
01:13And we work on, Javiola Larios, and we work on upcycling e-waste and finding ways to talk about the anxieties
01:21and the uncomfortable feelings that we have around technology, whether that's planned obsolescence.
01:27And like, what do we do with these cables?
01:29Do they work?
01:31Should we keep them?
01:32And creating this object that gives them material weight of, you know, them falling through gravity.
01:38But at the same time, speaking about what does it mean to be doom scrolling on feeds?
01:43Like what is that doing to our brains, to our synapses?
01:46And for example, brain rot, like that type of content.
01:50And so how do we create objects that when you look at them, capture your attention and, you know, kind of do like beyond words type of critique.
02:01Like you look at something, but you don't, you're trying to process what it's saying through its material.
02:07This work is called Baby AGI, and it is a stroller that I picked up.
02:26And so it's this ready-made object that then has a video game curved monitor that fits perfectly inside with these DIY kit robot hands.
02:36And it's thinking about, again, like AI, growing up with AI, or for example, how is AI used to parent?
02:44Like, for example, AI nannies, ideas around like iPad kids.
02:49Like, you kind of are born into some type of machine system, whether it's a tablet, and like, what is that doing, again, to our brains?
03:00And it's a very complicated, but I think fascinating subject to talk about.
03:05And so as part of the digital initiative here at Bakehouse Art Complex, my wife and I are working on creating a metaverse world through the Mudd Foundation technology.
03:16And so this is a Google map of Bakehouse that we've extruded, and you'll be able to visit it through an online portal.
03:26You'll be able to visit each of the studios, and it will reach an international audience.
03:34Like, how do we get more people to come to Bakehouse and support this amazing project and nonprofit?
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