BIENNIALS_
2022 – II Biennial of Warsaw, Poland (in collaboration with Steffen Körn)
2018 – 12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (in collaboration with Julia Weist)
2017 – 17th Curitiba Biennale, Curitiba, Brazil
2015 – 1st Asuncion Biennial, Asuncion, Paraguay
2015 – 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
CURATORSHIPS_
2022 – 5 DeadDrops [H4v4n4], !!!ARTE Section [No. 37], Weekly Package (in collaboration with Aram Bartholl)
2021 – Disconnected Experiences, Ars Electronica, Garden Cuba, Linz, Austria
2019 – !!!Act [No. 22], !!!ARTE Section in the Weekly Package, Havana, Cuba
2017 – Experiments in Cinema v12.3 (The Cubano Edition), Basement Films, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS_
2021 – Connectify/ Free_Wi-Fi [poetry]. O, Miami, US
2021 – Basic Necessities, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK (in collaboration with Steffen Körn)
2019 – SDR, !!!STRUCTURING – DES-STRUCTURING – ReESTRUCTURING, Empedrado 458, Havana, Cuba (in collaboration with Adonis Ferro and Yonlay Cabrera)
2019 – ARCA [archive], Gorria Gallery, Cuba (in collaboration with Julia Weist)
2018 – Common Good [La_red-SNET], School of Art, Design and Creative Industries. Wichita State University. Kansas, US
2018 – ARCA [archive], Triple Canopy, New York, US (in collaboration with Julia Weist)
2018 – Five essays of Conceptual Photography in Collaboration, Villena Gallery, Plaza de Armas, Havana. Cuba (in collaboration with Yonlay Cabrera)
2018 – !!!Section A R T E [No. 11 + Rhizome], Rhizome, New Museum, New York, US (in collaboration with Julia Weist)
2017 – 17. (SEPT) [By WeistSiréPC]™, Queens Museum, New York, US (in collaboration with Julia Weist)
2017 – Systeme D, l’Institut français and Two Seas, Marseille, France
2016 – Habitat, Fucina des Artistas, Havana, Cuba (in collaboration with Chuli Herrera and Mauricio Vega)
2015 – Deathmatch DOTA 2, Start Game, Villa Manuela Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2014 – Shared Link, 6th Contemporary Cuban Art Salon, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Paquete Semanal, Havana, Cuba
2014 – In the Same Positions, Ludwig Foundation, Havana, Cuba
2013 – Tutorial, Be Patient! Academia Vicentina de la Torre, Camagüey, Cuba
2013 – Yellow Pages, Salle Zéro, Alliance Française, Havana, Cuba
COLLECTIVE SHOWS [selection]_
2023 – Out of Scale, Transmediale, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2022 – InterAktion – Kuba, Schloss Sacrow, Germany
2022 – From the Real Museum to the Imaginary Museum, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.
2022 – Site de Rencontre avec l’art, Musée d’art de Rouyn-Noranda (MA), Québec, Canada
2022 – REVOLUTION V52, Digitale Zone and Lunique, Marseille, France
2021 – Interregnum: between emergence and contamination, Artis (Digital Platform), New York, US
2021 – Museum of Democracy, nGbK neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
2021 – Multimedia Encounters, UCL, Multimedia Anthropology Lab, London, UK
2020 – Disobey Orders, Save the Artists, Manifesta 13 (Program), The American Gallery, Marseille, France
2020 – Imperfect Cinema: Respond, Work, Play. Perlman Museum, US
2019 – NEWS, ETC., Moisés Pérez de Albeniz Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2019 – Greetings from Cuba, Klubovna Gallery, Czech Republic
2019 – Yungas, Inventions (against) art, Malba, Fundación Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Argentina
2018 – Just in Time (To Play), El Oficio, Havana, Cuba
2018 – Offline Browser, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 – Internet Yami-Ichi at NADA Art Fair, Rhizome, New York, US
2017 – 7th Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba
2017 – Experiments in Cinema v12.3, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
2017 – Moving things around: video creation in Cuba, Cine Las Americas and Experimental Response Cinema, MACC, Austin, Texas, US
2016 – The political potential of the image: video art in Cuba in the 2000s, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM. Mexico
2016 – UNTREF Electronic Arts Award, MCI, MUNTREF, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 – 62nd Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
2016 – Negative Horizon, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 – The mother of all arts, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba
2015 – What is your need? Arsenal Studio, Havana, Cuba
2015 – NANO, Teodoro Ramos Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2015 – Observatori d’Es Baluard, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Mallorca, Spain
2015 – 5th Edition of Samples-Mexico: Telekinesis-Shared Video Actions, Itinerant, Mexico
2014 – FIVA 4, International Festival of Video Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 – Homage to the 30th anniversary of the Havana Biennial, Centro de Desarrollo de Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba
2014 – Circo del Polvo, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
2014 – 6th Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba
2014 – 6th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
2014 – 2nd Festival of Video Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, Argentina
2013 – Tócate, Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2013 – The Ardid of the Innocents, Factoría Habana, Havana, Cuba
2013 – Tomada en Casa Tomada Gallery, Latin American Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2013 – 12th Exhibition of Young Filmmakers, Havana, Cuba
2012 – MAC-SAN TV, 11th Havana Biennial, LASA Project, Havana, Cuba
2012 – Dialogue Workshop, 11th Havana Biennial, ISA, Havana, Cuba
2012 – Art is not easy: Temporal Lapses and Artistic Translation, Links Hall, Chicago, US
2012 – Close up Vallarta, International Festival of Video Art, Mexico
2012 – New Video-Political Realities, Nomadic Video Art Festival: Intermediæ Matadero. Madrid, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMbA). Buenos Aires, Museum of Visual Arts (KINOKI). Santiago de Chile, Museum of Modern Art of Medellin (MAMM). Medellín
2012 – 10th International Poor Film Festival, Gibara, Cuba
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS_
2022.
– Gobernanza de datos: hacia una agenda del común, Javeriana University, Bogotá, Colombia
– CAAP Program´s “Inside Innovative Minds”, SAIC´s School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US
– Computer and Social Sciences Classes, University of Toronto, Canada
– Public Talk at York University’s Glendon Campus, Toronto, Canada
– Working from Home, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
– Understanding SNET [Yhe human infrastructures behind Cuba’s alternative computer networks], II Biennial Conference in Warsaw, Poland (in collaboration with Steffen Körn)
– Simon Dennys Student Workshop, KFBK Hamburg, Germany (in collaboration with Steffen Körn)
– Alternative Digital Practices in the Context of Disconnection, Conference Eye & Mind Laboratory for Visual Anthropology, Moesgaard Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
2021.
– Punto de Acceso, Seminar #2 CryptoISLA, Forum on blockchain technology in Cuba
– PakeTown [The Video Game of the Weekly Package], Presentation at Habana Espacios Creativos, Havana, Cuba (in collaboration with Steffen Körn and CONWIRO)
– Cables, Waves, Hard Drives and Tattoos or how to trace the post-photographic image across network, Hybrid Online and Offline Workshop, Swiss National Science Foundation and Lucerne School of Art and Design, Switzerland (in collaboration with Gaia Teodone and Nicolas Malevé)
– +Packaging Across Networks [online, via Telegram channel], Workshop developed as part of the collaborative program Critical Tracing and the Post-Photographic image, Swiss National Science Foundation and Lucerne School of Art and Design, Switzerland (in collaboration with Gaia Teodone and Nicolas Malevé)
– +Packaging Across Networks [Weekly Package/!!!ARTE Section], Conference at Lucerne School of Art and Design, Switzerland
– OF SNEAKERNETS and Copy Houses: Offline Media Distribution, Symposium TIMES OF HANDS – GAMIFICATION Vs PLAY, ADKDW Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne, Germany (in collaboration with Steffen Körn)
– Entonos digitales offline en Cuba, Etnografía Digital, UNAM, Mexico (in collaboration with Steffen Körn)
– Punto de Acceso, Seminar #1 pinchadolaburbuja, Forum on Digital Literacy in Cuba
– Now you’re playing with power, Conference at GAIA, Argentina (in collaboration with Steffen Körn)
– Exploring digital connectivity with the help of desktop cinema, Conference at Multimedia Encounters: Experimental Approaches to Ethnographic Research, London, UK (in collaboration with Steffen Körn)
2020.
– VI Rebirth Forum Havana, Workshop Good use of networks, Tercer Paraíso, Cuba
– Screen Walks, Conference at Fotomuseum Winterthur and The Photographer Gallery, London, UK (in collaboration with Gaia Tedone)
–!!!Digital distribution [offline] as an artistic platform, Conference at Habana Espacios Creativos, Havana, Cuba
– Tracing archives of consciousness: Six Cuban Artists, Lecture at The Fairfield University Art Museum, Connecticut, USA (in collaboration with Julia Weist)
2019.
– Lecture at PLAYLAB, Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, The Netherlands
– Behind the Net [the Package] _Building a country offline, Workshop at DATA, ArtEZ Academy for Art and Design, The Netherlands
– Contemporary diplomacy and the arts: Forging and sustaining impactful institutional Partnerships between the United States and Cuba, Lecture at ICFAD’s 56th (in collaboration with Royce Smith)
2018.
– College of Arts & Architecture, Workshop at Montana State University, Bozeman, US
– Offline Media Dissemination. Art Basel, Miami, US (in collaboration with Julia Weist)
– Lecture at MIT, Open Documentary Lab and Program in Art, Cultural and Technology, Massachusetts, USA (in collaboration with Julia Weist)
– Lecture at New York University, Digital Communications + Media, Department of Technology, Culture, and Society, La Habana, Cuba
– The Annual Plonsker Family Lecture in Contemporary Art 25th Anniversary: In and Out of Cuba, Lecture at Williams College Museum of Art, US
– NAVEGATION_FOLDER, Workshop at School of Art, Design and Creative Industries, Wichita State University, Kansas, US (in collaboration with Claudia Pederson)
– Lecture at Faculty of Arts and Letters, Art History, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba.
– Informal Networks, Lecture at FEC, Canary Society, Havana, Cuba
– Art for the offline Internet, Lecture at The New Museum, New York, USA (in collaboration with Julia Weist)
– Bien Común, Conference at the Centro de Desarrollo de Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba (in collaboration with sociologist Antonio Ramos Hernández)
2017.
– !!!Informal Media Cultures and Contemporary Art in Cuba, Conference at PLAS, Princeton University, USA
– Conversando sobre arte contemporáneo, Conference at the Embassy of Spain in Cuba, Havana, Cuba
2015.
– Contemporary Art of the Americas, Conference at the Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes, Asuncion, Paraguay
2014.
– The city and its context. Workshop at Rutas y Andares, Factoría Habana, Havana, Cuba
2013.
– Talking about contemporary art, Encuentro VI, Havana, Cuba
GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES_
2023 – Residency, TOKAS, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2022 – Residency, FountainHeadarts, Miami, US
2021 – Grants, CrossCulture Programme, IFA, Germany
2020 – Residency, The Camargo Core Foundation, Casisis, France
2019 – Award, Guy Pérez Cisneros National Criticism and Curatorship, Havana, Cuba
2018 – Award, Media Arts Assistance Fund Grant, New York Council on the Arts, US
2016 – Award, Visa for Creation, l’Institut Français, Paris, France
2016 – Residency, Dos Mares, Marseille, France
2013 – Award, Future Talent, SIGNIS and the New Latin American Film Foundation, Havana, Cuba
2013 – Mention, FIVA III, International Festival of Video Art, Argentina
2013 – Award, XII Exhibition of Young Filmmakers, Havana, Cuba
2013 – Grants, Ludwig Foundation, Havana, Cuba
2012 – Award, V Incubarte International Festival, Valencia, Spain
2011 – Award, VII Small Format Salon, Camagüey, Cuba
2011 – Mention, FIVA, International Festival of Video Art, Almirante Brown, Argentina
2011 – Award, XI Digital Art Project, Pablo de la Torriente Brau Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba
2010 – Residency, LASA Project, Havana, Cuba
2009 – Mention, III Visuarte International Festival, Cienfuegos, Cuba
2009 – Award, XXV Fidelio Ponce de León, Camagüey, Cuba
PUBLISHED ARTICLES_
2022 – The Book of X: Packaging Across Networks: Tracing Strategies and Curatorial Intelligences of the Cuban Paquete Semanal, (in collaboration with Gaia Teodone anf Nicolas Malevé)
2022 – The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology: Swap It on WhatsApp: The Moral Economy of Informal Online Exchange Networks in Contemporary Cuba, (in collaboration with Steffen Körn)
2022 – American Anthropologist: Fragile connections: Community computer networks, human infrastructures, and the consequences of their breakdown in Havana, (in collaboration with Steffen Körn)
2022 – American Anthropologist: Screen Walks: Conducting “Research in Motion” in Digital Environments, (in collaboration with Steffen Körn)
2021 – Weird Economies: !!!Cuban Creativity [Practices of innovation in a context of alegality]
2021 – Unthinking Photography: Messaging grups and the digital black-market in Cuba, (in collaboration with Steffen Körn)
2020 – Triple Canopy: Proyecto DATA, (in collaboration with Julia Weist)
2020 – RIALTA: Columna !!!Sección ARTE (finished in 2021)
2018 – Frieze: Permission to Participate: What it Takes for a Cuban Artist to Exhibit Abroad, (in collaboration with Julia Weist)
2017 – Artforum: Julia Weist and Nestor Siré discuss their project on El Paquete Semanal, (in collaboration with Julia Weist)
2017 – Art in America: Packet Switching: Cuba’s Offline Internet, (in collaboration with Julia Weist)
2012 – ArtCronica: Gabriel Orozco en la Bienal de La Habana
CATALOGS_
– 10th anniversary Book “A Decade to Download”: The Internet Yami-Ichi, 2022
– Connectify/ Free_Wi-Fi [poesía]: O, Miami, 2022
– A New Digital Deal: Ars Electronica, 2021
– Disobey Orders, Save the Artist: Manifest Biennial, 2020
– Offline Browser, Hong-Gah Museum, 2018
– Bienal de Curitiba, 2018 [guidebook]
– Imagined Borders. Gwangju: Gwangju Biennale Foundation, 2018
– Antípodas – Diverso e Reverso: Bienal de Curritiva 17, 2017
– Negative Horizon: Hong-Gah Museum, 2016
– Un grito de libertad – Sasõ sapukai: Bienal de Asunción, 2015
– Entre la idea y la experiencia: Bienal de La Habana, 2015
– Estudios de Artistas Cubanos: ARTempoCuba, 2013
– Incubarte: V Festival Internacional, 2012
BIBLIOGRAPHY [selection]_
2022.
– Revista El Estornudo: Open tu wifi en el parque: ¿Tú no te vas a quedar? by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
2021.
– Revista Hipermedia: PakeTown: vender el Paquete Semanal dentro y fuera del metaverso, by Erick J. Mota
– Juventud Técnica: PakeTown, Mucho más que un videojuego, by Julio Valdera
– OnCuba: El Paquete Semanal, ahora como videojuego, by Yoel Rodríguez Tejeda
– Enigma: Archivos activos y redes de arte, by Agustina Andreoletti’s
2020.
– Unthinking Photography: Interview whit Nestor Siré [Parte I y II], by Marloes de Valk
– Rhizome: Michael Connor’s Decade in (the end of) Internet, by Michael Connor
– Der Tagesspiegel: Paquetes gegen das Virus by Michael Thoss
– Lenguaje Sucio: Game Art cubano Memori, by Lesly Fonseca
2019.
– El Cultural: Fakes: Todo es Mentira by Rocío de la Villa
– Rhizome: Net Art Anthology in El Paquete Semanal, by Michael Connor
– YucaByte: ARTE: de la Bienal de la Habana al Paquete Semanal by YucaByte
– EFE: El Paquete, la “internet del desconectado” en Cuba, contada a través del arte by Yeny García
2018.
– Rhizome: Internet Yami-Ichi at NADA Art Fair by Lauren Studebaker
– Document Journal: Artists Nestor Siré and Julia Weist on Cuba’s underground internet market by Clara Malley
– Rhizome: Coming to America, by Julia Weist
– Hyperallergic: Delivering the Internet, an Underground Network Keeps Cubans Connected, by Mimi Wong
2017.
– Revista de Arte Cubano: Walking the city and drawing its uncertainties, By Magaly Espinosa
– Cuban Art News: The Weekly Package Comes to New York, by Lidia Hernandez Tapia
– OpenDemocracy: The digital revolution in Havana: between liberation and submission, by Marianna Liosi
– Cuban Art News: Moving Things: Cuban Video Art in the US Southwest, by Lidia Hernández Tapia.
– Art in America: First Look, by William S. Smith
– Mousse Magazine: An Offline Internet that Fits in a Suitcase, by Orit Gat
– Document Journal: Offline in Cuba, by Benjamin Gutierrez
– Cuba Counterpoints: El Paquete’s Art Gallery, by Lizabel Mónica
– Frieze: Data Roaming, by Orit Gat
– ARTEPOLI Magazine: Cuban Videocreation in the United States, by Angel Alonso
– Art On Cuba: The transgressive framework of experimental cinema… Profits for Cuban video art, by Magaly Espinosa
2016.
– Document Journal: El Paquete: An Underground Railroad for Art in Cuba, by Richard Morgan
– Society (2 Sep): Social Network, by Amelia Dollah
– On Cuba: Nestor Siré: First Cuban to obtain “Visa for Creation” in France, by Yoe Suárez
2015.
– Art On Cuba Magazine: Cubans in the 12th Havana Biennial, by Niurma Pérez Serpa
– Cuban Art News: Biennial Snapshot: Néstor Siré’s Banksy in Havana, by Abelardo Mena Chicuri
– Portal de las Artes Visuales: Dota Deathmatch, or the possibility of establishing social relations on a common interest, by Yonlay Cabrera Quindemil
– EFE: Banksy graffiti artist’s footprint in Havana comes to light, by Sara Gómez Armas
– Granma: Banksy’s footprints in Havana, by Michel Hernández
– OnCuba: Banksy in Havana, by Diana Ferreiro
– Art On Cuba: Start Game on Villa Manuela, by Hamlet Fernández
– Cuba Contemporánea: Nestor Siré: Declaration of Principles, by Lianet Hernández
– ArtCronica: Relational Aesthetics, Encounters on Contemporary Art, by Magaly Espinosa
– Art On Cuba: Nestor Siré with Weekly Frequency, by Rigoberto Otaño Milián
– ARTEPOLI Magazine: De la galería a la sala oscura y viceversa, by Angel Alonso
– Art On Cuba: We are absolutely alone, by Yainet Rodríguez
2014.
– Cuban Art News: “Curators Come Home!” III – The Pleasure of Anonymity, by Meyken Barreto
– Cuba Contemporánea: Arte Joven: entre la mesura, la anarquía y el desparpajo, by Elvia Rosa Castro
– Portal de las Artes Visuales: Circo de polvo: para engañar al tiempo, by Maeva Peraza
– Art On Cuba: Narrar Enlace Compartido, en voz de Nestor Siré, by Yainet Rodríguez
2013.
– Cuban Art News, No. 7: Acepto, acierto, by Gretel Acosta
– El Correo del Archivo Veigas, No. 16: Ironías de una ideología. Arte y memoria: documentar el presente, by Magaly Espinosa
– Arte por Excelencias. Revista de Iberoamérica y el Caribe, No. 18: El ardid de los inocentes. Documentales de la ciudad, by Mabel Machado
2012.
– CdeCuba, No. 11: Anaideia y Parresia, by Pavel Alejandro Barrios Sosa
– Cuban Art News, No. 8: Metáfora del poder urbano: barreras de contención, by Magaly Espinosa
