Hadaly Villasclaras (Spain) is a visual artist 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.
She is currently a researcher at Organismo 2026 program at TBA21.
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), where she upgraded her technical skills. She has also collaborated on the OntoExhibit research project of the UMA-Telefónica Chair (2024) and was a tech mentor in the 1st Feminist Hackaton organized by Yes We Tech in the Google Safety Engineer Center (Spain, 2025)
As an artist her work has been supported by institutions and art initiatives such as Centro de Cultura Digital (Mexico City, 2020), Tabacalera (Madrid, 2019), Piksel Festival (Norway, 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.