Amanda Masha Caminals is co-founder of Translocalia and co-director and curator of the Mutant Institute of Environmental Narratives (IMNA), the artistic laboratory for climate action of the City of Madrid. Based at the Innovation and Technology for Development Centre of the Technic University of Madrid (itdUPM), IMNA fosters artistic practices in connection with journalism, science and technology as a response to the challenges of the environmental crisis. Amanda is also Advisor to the European Commission S+T+ARTS Prize, an initiative to foster alliances between science, technology and the arts.
Previous to that, she directed the CITY STATION at the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) and the Barcelona City Council. As an independent curator she was responsible for the 2019 edition of MWB, the 10 days festival of the Mobile World Congress of Barcelona. She has worked at institutions including the Institute of International Visual Arts in London or Casa Triângulo in São Paulo. She holds a BA in Humanities from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, a Degree in History of Art from the University of Barcelona and an MA Hons in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London.
