Hadaly Villasclaras (Spain) is an artist, researcher and software developer. Her work brings together processes from traditional art practices, computing and new media. Through them, she explores digital materialities and how symbolic and technical systems produce meaning and shape realities.
As a researcher, she's currently involved in Organismo 2026, an applied research programme developed by TBA21 and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Within this framework, she is part of The End of the Real, a case study investigating how reality is increasingly reorganised as input for automated systems. She collaborates with Eternal Terra Ear Institute as a researcher and creative technologist, and previously contributed to the OntoExhibit research project within the UMA–Telefónica Chair in 2024. In 2025, she was a tech mentor at the first Feminist Hackathon organised by Yes We Tech at the Google Safety Engineering Center.
As an artist, her work has been supported by institutions and art initiatives such as Centro de Cultura Digital (Ciudad de México, 2020), Tabacalera (Madrid, 2019), Piksel Festival (Bergen, 2025), Loom Festival (Barcelona, 2022), ATENEA – Women in Artistic Technologies (University of Valencia, 2018), Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art (phICA) & Mesa Community College Gallery (USA, 2018), CAAC (Seville, 2015), solo_show (Online, 2020), Casa Antillón (Madrid, 2020), CAC (Málaga, 2017), BIUNIC 2017(Seville, 2017). Her work has also been featured in publications such as “A decade to download. The Internet Yami-Ichi 2012-21” (A Decade To Download Project)(Japan/Online, 2022); and on digital platforms specialized in art and visual culture like TZVETNIK, AQNB or Anti-Materia.
As a software developer, she works as a Creative Technologist and Full-Stack Developer building digital experiences across interactive systems, creative coding, and generative software. She has been involved in technical, educational and research contexts with organizations such as TBA21, Google, Nike and UMA-Telefónica Chair. She is currently deepening her expertise in Web3 technologies and decentralized systems.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (2011-16) from the University of Málaga (Spain), where she also earned a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Artistic Production (2016-17). She earned a Higher Technical Degree in Web Application Development (DAW) (Barcelona, 2020-22) and was selected to participate in the Samsung DesArrolladoras Program for Women in STEM (2022).