Amanda Masha Caminals is co-director and curator of the Instituto Mutante de Narrativas Ambientales (IMNA), the climate art lab of the Centro de Innovación en Tecnología para el Desarrollo Humano at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (itdUPM). She is also co-founder of the organisation Translocalia, a network of artists, curators, architects, activists and designers to plan an ecologically viable future through art.
Masha Caminals has been an advisor to the European Commission’s S + T + ARTS Award, an initiative to foster partnerships between science, technology and the arts. Previously, she directed the CITY STATION of artist Natalie Jeremijenko’s Environmental Health Clinic at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) and Barcelona City Council. As an independent curator she has been responsible for the 2019 edition of Mobile Week Barcelona, a 10-day festival that formulates an open space for dialogue around the impact of digital technology on society. She has worked at institutions such as the Institute of International Visual Arts in London and Casa Triângulo in São Paulo. She holds a degree in Humanities from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, a degree in Art History from the University of Barcelona and a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art Curating from the Royal College of Art in London.