I am Joel De las Heras Beán, a Spanish artist, educator, and digital ethicist working at the intersection of memory, artificial intelligence, and structural invisibility. My work blends poetic resistance, critical pedagogy, and technological inquiry to confront one question: What happens when systems forget?
Digital Ethics & Pedagogy
Transdisciplinary Art
& Narrative Design
Algorithmic Memory
& Data Politics
Social Technology
& Institutional Critique
Sound Archives
& Experimental Video
As a digital ethics educator, I’ve taught hundreds of students how to use emerging technologies consciously, creatively, and critically. My courses combine technical skills with a deep focus on access, justice, and the human dimension of AI and automation.
As an artist, I work with sound, video, with AI and human generated visuals to archive erased realities—those that bureaucratic systems fail to register. I use design as evidence and code as memory. My work is not an artistic output; it is a political gesture.
My practice emerges from lived experience: navigating structural neglect, health systems, and institutional gaps that erased parts of my life. Rather than disappear, I archived. I turned absence into presence, using technology to write myself—and others—back into existence.
This is not an act of nostalgia. It is an act of counter-documentation.
I am Joel De las Heras Beán, a Spanish artist, educator, and digital ethicist working at the intersection of memory, artificial intelligence, and structural invisibility. My work blends poetic resistance, critical pedagogy, and technological inquiry to confront one question: What happens when systems forget?
As a digital ethics educator, I’ve taught hundreds of students how to use emerging technologies consciously, creatively, and critically. My courses combine technical skills with a deep focus on access, justice, and the human dimension of AI and automation.
As an artist, I work with sound, video, with AI and human generated visuals to archive erased realities—those that bureaucratic systems fail to register. I use design as evidence and code as memory. My work is not an artistic output; it is a political gesture.
My practice emerges from lived experience: navigating structural neglect, health systems, and institutional gaps that erased parts of my life. Rather than disappear, I archived. I turned absence into presence, using technology to write myself—and others—back into existence.
This is not an act of nostalgia. It is an act of counter-documentation.
Digital Ethics & Pedagogy
Transdisciplinary Art
& Narrative Design
Algorithmic Memory
& Data Politics
Social Technology
& Institutional Critique
Sound Archives
& Experimental Video