Joel De las Heras Beán

Spanish Artist. Educator / Digital
Ethicist

Joel De las Heras Beán

Spanish Artist. Educator / Digital Ethicist

I write from inside the system that forgot me.
Not to be seen, but to resist deletion.


My name is Joel De las Heras Beán.
I am not a creative.
I am a witness.


My practice is born from institutional collapse.
What I build is not art, not pedagogy, not design.
It’s a strategy for survival.


I work with what remains:
memory, displacement, legal residue, digital ruins.
And I shape it into languages the system cannot co-opt.

Joel De las Heras Beán

I educate by unlearning
I create by exposing
I perform by refusing to disappear

I am based in Castelló, operating in European, Latin American and digital geographies.
But my work doesn’t belong to a place. It belongs to those who were erased.

Joel De las Heras Beán

What I do is not a discipline. It is a method of survival

I build counter-systems:

 

  • Archives that protect rather than expose

  • Technologies that remember with care

  • Educational spaces where silence becomes
    method, and code becomes testimony

Enter the Archive Collaborate / Exhibit / Commission Read: The System Operating in the Shadows

Joel De las Heras Beán

My name is

Joel De las Heras Beán

 

I’m not here to describe myself.
I’m here to reprogram what institutions failed to process.

Educator, artist, and strategist of unseen narratives—I work where power loses form: in digital ethics, aesthetic resistance, and the memory of what was erased.

 

I don’t teach technology.
I unveil its silence.

I don’t make art.
I perform what cannot be archived.

I don’t write stories.
I code memory into structures that cannot forget.

 

Contact & Collaborate

I represent what Spain refused to hold. I speak from a wound made legible through code, performance and pedagogy.

I write from inside the system that forgot me.
Not to be seen, but to resist deletion.


My name is Joel De las Heras Beán.
I am not a creative.
I am a witness.


My practice is born from institutional collapse.
What I build is not art, not pedagogy, not design.
It’s a strategy for survival.


I work with what remains:
memory, displacement, legal residue, digital ruins.
And I shape it into languages the system cannot co-opt.

Joel De las Heras Beán

I am based in Castelló, operating in European, Latin American and digital geographies.
But my work doesn’t belong to a place. It belongs to those who were erased.

I educate by unlearning
I create by exposing
I perform by refusing to disappear

Joel De las Heras Beán

What I do is not a discipline. It is a method of survival

I build counter-systems:

 

  • Archives that protect rather than expose

  • Technologies that remember with care

  • Educational spaces where silence becomes
    method, and code becomes testimony

Enter the Archive Collaborate / Exhibit / Commission Read: The System Operating in the Shadows

Joel De las Heras Beán

My name is

Joel De las Heras Beán

 

I’m not here to describe myself.
I’m here to reprogram what institutions failed to process.

Educator, artist, and strategist of unseen narratives—I work where power loses form: in digital ethics, aesthetic resistance, and the memory of what was erased.

 

I don’t teach technology.
I unveil its silence.

I don’t make art.
I perform what cannot be archived.

I don’t write stories.
I code memory into structures that cannot forget.

 

Contact & Collaborate

I represent what Spain refused to hold. I speak from a wound made legible through code, performance and pedagogy.