Marcela Antipan Olate is an artist and researcher from the southern Andes, based in Bremen. Her practice explores how machines, technical objects, and infrastructures shape ways of moving and generate forms of knowledge. Recently, she has focused on measuring instruments and navigation tools, approaching them as material conditions that orient movement, produce standards, and embed political and territorial logics. Through reinterpreting and repurposing these devices, she develops artistic processes that make visible their constraints, side effects, and hidden cuts. Her work takes the form of digital works, objects, texts, performances, and collaborative formats such as workshops.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Ars Electronica, Lab.30, and the Venice Biennale – Summer School. In 2024, she received the Frese-Design-Preis. Marcela teaches in the Digital Media Master’s program at the University of the Arts Bremen and works as curator in artistic research project The Dynamic Archive. Currently, she is PhD candidate in the Binational Artistic PhD Program at the University of the Arts Bremen and Zurich University of the Arts.