Zach Blas is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose practice draws out the philosophies and imaginaries residing in computational technologies and their industries.

Working across moving image, computation, installation, theory, and performance, Blas has exhibited at venues including Vienna Secession, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, KANAL—Centre Pompidou, Walker Art Center, Twelfth Gwangju Biennale, ZKM Center for Art and Media, and Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. His 2021 artist monograph Unknown Ideals was published by Sternberg Press and Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst. He is co-editor, with Melody Jue and Jennifer Rhee, of Informatics of Domination, forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2025. Blas holds a Ph.D. from The Graduate Program in Literature at Duke University and an M.F.A. in Media Arts from University of California, Los Angeles. He previously lectured in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London and is currently Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto.