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Doctorate

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About

Research Context

Portugal | Spain

Research Interests

experimental ethnography | artificial intelligence | social agency | artistic practices

Institutional Subunit

UC

Biographical Note

PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Coimbra), funded by a grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology, and a BA in Fine Arts (Complutense University of Madrid). His academic and professional career develops in an interdisciplinary way, at the intersection of art and anthropology. In 2019, he received a Leonardo Grant from the BBVA Foundation (Spain), developing a project that served as the starting point for his doctoral research, in which he combines collaborative ethnography with artistic practice to develop an anthropology of Artificial Intelligence. His artistic work is part of major collections, such as the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía (Madrid), CA2M (Madrid), and MEIAC (Badajoz).

All projects

Data updated on 01-02-2026, from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE.

2026-2028

Cognitive Practices: Art Imaginaries in the Immediacy of Contemporary Cultures

3915169311-169311-4-825

Researcher

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Financiers: Agencia Estatal de Investigación

2020/10/01-2025/06/06

Visualización y Cognición. Una Antropología con la Inteligencia Artificial.

2020.04554.BD

PhD Student Fellow

Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida

Financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2019/09/30-2020/09/30

Máquina Abstracta

IN[19]_ART_PLA_0023

Research Fellow

Becas Leonardo a Investigadores y Creadores Culturales

Financiers: Fundación BBVA

2018/09/01-2019/08/01

Cognición Artificial: Delegación de Inteligencia en la Era Digital

OUT_2018_1646

Master Student Fellow

Erasmus Plus

Financiers: Erasmus Plus; Universidade de Coimbra

All Publications

Data updated on 01-02-2026 , from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE .

Book chapter

The Mythical Speech of Artificial Intelligence: the Imaginary of an Autonomous Agency

Pachón, Andrés, Anthropology and AI. VandenBroek, Angela Kristin; Koycheva, Lora; Artz, Matt. Routledge. United Kingdom. 2026. Published

Journal article

Artificial Vision and Human Perception: correspondences and divergences.

Pachón, Andrés, ASRI. Arte y Sociedad. Revista de Investigación en Artes Y Humanidades Digitales. 111 - 125. 29. 2025. https://revistaasri.com/article/view/6891 . https://doi.org/10.33732/ASRI.6891 . Published

Thesis / Dissertation

Visualization and Cognition: an Anthropology with Artificial Intelligence

phd. Universidade de Coimbra . 06-06-2025.

Exhibition catalog

Viajes utópicos

Various Authors; Pachón, Andrés, 224. Diputación de Huesca. 2024.

Journal article

Epistemic Interfaces of Visualization and Interpretation: a possible resistance to the myth of autonomous agency in AI

Pachón, Andrés, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens. 91 - 113. 60-61. 2024. https://revistas.fcsh.unl.pt/rcl/article/view/758 . https://doi.org/10.34619/20hf-ury5 . Published

Book chapter

En los márgenes del rostro

Pachón, Andrés, La memoria en los márgenes. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos y Fundación Anastasio de Gracia. Madrid, Spain. 2023. Published

Journal issue

Mythologies of the 21st Century

Archivo Papers. Journal of Photography and Visual Culture. 1. 1. 03-05-2021. https://archivopapersjournal.com/ojs/index.php/apj/issue/view/5 . Published

Journal issue

Mythologies of the 21st Century

Archivo Papers. Journal of Photography and Visual Culture. 2. 1. 01-10-2021. https://archivopapersjournal.com/ojs/index.php/apj/issue/view/6 . Published

Magazine article

The Defeat of the Face (or, A Shake-Up in the Archives)

Martiínez-Jacquet, Elena; Pachón, Andrés, Tribal . 92 - 103. 96. XXIV-3. Belgium. 2020. https://www.tribalartmagazine.com/en/back-issues/205-tribal-96-summer-2020.html .

Book

Máquina abstracta

Pachón, Andrés, La micro. Madrid, Spain. 2020. Published

Exhibition catalog

Herbarios Imaginados: entre el arte y la ciencia

Various Authors; Pachón, Andrés, 189. Ediciones Complutense. 2020.

Book

La derrota del rostre o l'arxiu com a ideologia

Pachón, Andrés; López Sanz, Hasan G, Universitat de València. Valencia, Spain. 2020. Published

Thesis / Dissertation

Artificial Cognition: intelligence delegation in the digital era

master. Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida . 22-06-2019.

Journal article

Artificial Cognition: intelligence delegation in the digital era

Pachón, Andrés, ASRI. Arte y Sociedad. Revista de Investigación en Artes y Humanidades Digitales. 84 - 95. 17. 2019. https://revistaasri.com/article/view/5383 . https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7656610 . Published

Exhibition catalog

XXVII Edición de Circuitos de Artes Plásticas

Various Authors; Pachón, Andrés, 157. Dirección General de Promoción Cultural de la Oficina de Cultura y Turismo de la Comunidad de Madrid. 2017.

Exhibition catalog

Cuestionamiento

Various Authors; Pachón, Andrés, 161. Dirección General de Promoción Cultural de la Oficina de Cultura y Turismo de la Comunidad de Madrid. 2016.

Exhibition catalog

Tropologías

Pachón, Andrés, 76. La micro. 2015.

Magazine article

Andrés Pachón. Territorio

Pachón, Andrés, MATADOR. 58 - 73. P. Madrid, Spain. 2014. https://tienda.lafabrica.com/revista-matador/3277-matador-p-espana-2022.html .

Exhibition catalog

Fármaco de lo real

Various Authors; Pachón, Andrés, 66. Galería Ángeles Baños. 2010.

Conference paper

Rostridad y caja negra. Errores endémicos de las tecnologías biométricas

Pachón, Andrés, Valencia, Spain. 25-10-2019. Published