BIOGRAPHY

Cross-disciplinary artist, designer, researcher

Guus Vandeweerd is a designer and researcher based in Barcelona, currently pursuing a master’s in Research in Design at BAU · College of Arts & Design. His work investigates processes of digital translation, how material, relational, or embodied phenomena are restructured through computational tools and systems. Using design as both method and critique, he explores what is lost, altered, or produced when physical realities are rendered into digital forms.

Guus previously completed a master’s in graphic design at PXL-MAD School of Arts in Hasselt, Belgium, where his early research focused on virtual embodiment and avatar design. While still interested in digital subjectivity, his recent work moves beyond representation to question how computational perception and interface design shape knowledge, legibility, and agency.

His writing has been published in journals such as Collateral and the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, and he has presented his research at IMAL (Brussels), London College of Fashion, and PXL-MAD’s FRAME gallery. Notable talks include “Let’s Get Phygital,” exploring phygital embodiment, and his co-authored paper Mirrored Dwellers, which examines digital-material entanglements in collaborative design practices.

Guus’s current work includes What if I Was a Stone (2024), a speculative avatar performance exploring nonhuman embodiment and machinic framing, and Can You Be My... (2022), a VR project investigating how identity and relational dynamics are translated through digital embodiment. Through installations, writing, and experimental prototyping, his practice aims to unpack the epistemological structures embedded in digital tools and to rethink how we engage with systems we do not fully control.

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