[1] In 2014, Hito Steyerl listed Blas as a "FutureGreat" in ArtReview, writing, "While a lot of contemporary technologically oriented art tries to resuscitate the wreckage of Futurism, or overidentifies with strategies of surgical marketing and apple polishing, Blas’s work insists that one doesn’t need to brand oneself into voluntary servitude or to eagerly identify with the aggressor.
"[2] Blas earned a BS in film and philosophy from Boston University and then a post-baccalaureate certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
[8] In 2014, Blas published the essay "Contra-Internet aesthetics in the book You Are Here: Art After the Internet ISBN 9780956957177, edited by curator Omar Kholeif.
Curator Lauren Cornell has written that "Blas’ project seems to fight directly against the way subversive politics or lifestyles become quickly co-opted and drained of power, often to be sold back to broader society in neutered form.
"[16] The project has been exhibited internationally and written about in publications including Artforum,[17] Frieze,[18] Newsweek,[19] The New York Times,[20] the Walker Art Center,[21] and WNYC.