A program of Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
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A program of Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
A cultural program of:
ARTIFACTS curated by Barbara Krulik, independent curator based in Amsterdam, cultural manager, writer and editor and Mildred Durán, PhD from the University of Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne, historian, art critic and independent curator.
This project started from the unusual relationship between statistics and art. How do artists use these different statistical variables, and how do they apply them? This exhibition project therefore attempts to answer this question. Wanting to go beyond a simple quantitative reduction, different sources and various methodological tools (such as: statistics, graphs, quantitative and qualitative data, directories, maps) form the basis of an in-depth research work by artists on the internalization of the various data in the social sphere and their relation to individuals in specific contexts. Thus, these artists weave unsuspected relationships between data and statistical values and specific themes: migration problems, violence in Colombia, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the AIDS disease and its repercussions, environmental issues, identity and/or sociopolitical themes, among others.
From Thursday, September 23 through Friday, October 22.
Participating artists: Jaime Avila, Fernando Arias, Perry Bard & Richard Sullivan, Edson Barrus, Marisa Baumgartner, Yann Beauvais, Terry Berkowitz, Rossella Biscotti, Julian Dupont, William Engelen, Raphaël Faon & Andres Salgado, Richard Garrison, Ben Grosser, Ligorano/Reese, David Medina, Christian Lesmes Mendoza, Lucy McKenna, Emeka Ogboh, Morgan O'Hara, Juan Pablo Pacheco, PROM. RUN collective, Carlos Schwartz, Francesc Torres, Gabriel Zea.
Casa Hoffmann is an exhibition space dedicated to producing contemporary art research commissioned to curators or researchers. Once the curatorial projects are exhibited at our headquarters, the purpose is to promote them in museums, foundations, galleries and cultural institutions. We believe that conceptual cross-cutting encourages and innovates the development of creative and cultural practices, for this reason, we promote axes of dialogue between proposals from local and international artists. From the space, we have been promoting the development of research projects that investigate the interaction between art, science and technology.
Jaime, born in 1966 in Saboyá (Boyacá).After studying Civil Engineering, he entered the Fine Arts of the University of the Andes in Bogotá. Very early on, he became interested in the social and economic problems of large Latin American cities, and carried out various projects, in particular with disoriented young people and people from marginalized populations. His work touches on different fields such as comics, video, installation and photography. His works, notably his photographic installations La vida es una pasarela and 10 metros cúbicos, have been part of numerous group and individual exhibitions. Jaime Ávila participated in the Sao Paulo and Liverpool Biennials (2005), and in the Havana Biennial (2006). His work has received numerous awards. He was invited to the Latin American research and studies program for artists at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin-American Studies at Harvard University where he offers Cuarto Mundo in 2005. In 2007 he was invited to participate in Photoquai du Quai Branly in Paris. His following solo exhibitions were : El traje del Palacio at Nueveochenta Gallery, Bogotá (2018) and Ciudad Perdida at Museo de Arte de Pereira, Pereira (2016) and various art institutions in Colombia, United States, and Mexico as well as, ARCO Madrid (2020).
Fernando, born in 1963 in Armenia (Colombia), lives and works between London and Bogota. Internationally recognized for his subversive work with the body, gender and sexuality. In his works, Arias highlights themes such as nation building, power relations, politics, violence, the armed conflict, the repressive dynamics that have determined religious and political institutions in the human being. Arias's research work is completely rooted in the complex sociopolitical reality of Colombia. Arias denounces the intolerable excess of political, social and cultural violence that intensifies the problems that affect the country, and that involve contemporary society. Involved in the development of social and cultural projects, Arias is one of the two founders of 'More art, more action', a non-profit foundation that since 2011 has been working to generate a platform for interdisciplinary artistic projects with other artists. It involves communities from the Colombian Pacific region. The artist investigates the Colombian reality to discover the various layers that make it up and becomes the means to express the messages of excluded and marginalized communities. His work allows him to understand the inappropriateness and discontent of society.
Edson Barrus born in 1961, Carnaubeira da Penha, Brazil. He lives between Recife and Paris. He is a cultural activist, has created the alternative space Rés do Chão in Rio de Janeiro from 2002 to 2005, a space to study, perform display and investigate on contemporary art practices. Develop now with UTBM the Project Mulato's Dog. Artist granted by CNPQ-Brasil. He is also editor of the magazine Nós Contemporâneos. He has been working with video for almost ten years. The camera is an essential tool in his production, he captures images (in the metro in Berlin, during a demonstration in Paris), frames them as closely as possible (rua Lavradio in Rio de Janeiro, a kitchen in Catskill) and creates very plastic images (water under all its forms) using discreet filming devices: a digital camera and a mobile phone. The sound, never illustrative, is treated on an equal basis with the image whose presence it reinforces. Practicing video allows Edson Barrus to act on everyday life by transforming it into artistic work, provided that this work is considered a social activity. Has participated to many International Film Festival in Europe and in the Americas.
Marisa Baumgartner was born in Washington D.C. in 1980 and raised between Washington and Salzburg, Austria. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2002 and her Masters of Fine Arts in Photography from Yale University in 2006. She has exhibited worldwide and had her first two museum shows in the US in 2011. Marisa Baumgartner currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
A leading figure in video art and experimental cinema in France. Yann Beauvais is an academic, filmmaker, critic, theorist and the author of around thirty short films and installations. He is also the co-founder, in 1982, with Miles McKane, of Light Cone, an association based in Paris dedicated to the service of the creation, distribution and safeguarding of experimental cinema. Perfectly bilingual (French-English), Beauvais has established, since the 1980s, an important network of friendships and ties with experimental American and international filmmakers. Notable artists have deposited their films at Light Cone, making this structure, with more than three thousand five hundred films in its catalogue, the largest European cooperative for the distribution of experimental cinema, and the second in the world after the Film-Makers Cooperative from New York, co-founded by Jonas Mekas in 1962 (which lists five thousand pieces). He was able to establish fruitful dialogues with museum institutions and thus offer experimental cinema greater visibility than in the past. He founded in 2011 with Edson Barrus a cultural space in Recife. He teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy. He also taught aesthetics and the history of experimental cinema at Studio Le Fresnoy, University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle and the University of Florida. He was a curator and programmer at the American Center and works at the National Center for Art and Culture Georges-Pompidou (who gave him a carte blanche in 2007 and in 2010), at the Museum of Modern Art in the city of Paris as well as at the National Gallery of the Jeu de Paume. His articles, published in various journals, have been collected in the collection Poussière d'image, published in 1998, by Éditions Paris experimental. His videos and films had been presented in different festivals and museums around the world.
Berkowitz creates installations, videos, photography, audio and objects dealing with social and political critique, social consciousness and the human condition. Beginning in the early seventies, she has shown in museums, biennials and other institutions internationally including PS1, Long Island City, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartegena de Indias, Colombia, The Alternative Museum, NY, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Metrònom, Barcelona, and Museo do Pobo Galego, Santiago de Compostela
Dupont is a visual artist born in Colombia (1985). His practice is a question for the politics of presentation in context, a potential space confronting Western rationalism through the articulation of site-specific interventions, deploying the uncanny in bio-semiotical experiences as resistance to language. He’s currently student of the Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought division in The European Graduate School, working the dialogue between Shamanism and Automation. He has realized solo exhibitions such as ‘UUS YAHTX’ in Popayán with the collaboration of the Indigenous Guard of Cauca in 2018, MAPARADOXTERRA at the Cinema of the Museum La Tertulia in Cali (2013); and has participated in collective exhibitions such as ARTECAMARA in ARTBO organized by Helena Producciones in Bogotá (2019), Húesped in Lugar a dudas in Cali (2016), The second Biennale of Montevideo in Uruguay (2014) and ‘Colombia Hoy’ in #1 Cartagena, the contemporary Art Biennale of Cartagena (2014).
William Engelen is a visual artist and composer, born in the Netherlands, living and working in Berlin. His work traverses the spectrum between visual arts and music, poaching strategies from each field to test the boundaries between image and sound. The output includes installations, performances, videos, musical scores and even models. Engelen solo shows include at the Drawing Center, New York; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim; Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück; Central Museum, Utrecht; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo and upcoming at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL. His compositions have been played at Maerzmusik, Berlin; Gaudeamus, Utrecht; Ultima, Oslo. Performers he's collaborated with are: Clemens Merkel, Montreal; Motion Ensemble, NB; Sonar Quartett, Berlin; Joan La Barbara, New York; Dimitrios Polisoidis, Vienna; Talujon, New York; KNM Berlin. His vinyl records are published by Edition Telemark, Berlin.
Raphaël Faon and Andres Salgado, graduates of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC) and are currently researchers at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Raphaël Faon proposes to put in crisis the systems of representation, to reveal the construction of reality by a world of images, rather than to produce images of a so-called "real" world. Using archives, streams and manufactured objects, his works focus on photography, installations and digital projects. Andres Salgado starting from the proper simulacrum of the images conveyed by the visual and communication media (cinema, advertising, Internet, television), the artifice is exalted in his work. His images are intimately linked to the axiomatic text that runs through the screens of his videos. Salgado gives priority to different mediums as video, installation, sculpture or photography. Their work has been presented in different exhibitions in Pompidou Centre in Paris and Malaga, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Gallery YGREC in France. They obtained recognitions as the Prize-Winner of the Numeriscope- 104 for the Grand Palais (2019), the Maif Prize (2016), they been finalist for the Research Program Organoïde at Institut Pasteur (2019), Pulsar Prize (2018). Recently they had been in residency of creation at Ateliers Médicis, la-Ville-aux-Clercs.(2018) and they participated at the 4th International Biennale of Casablanca (Morocco) in 2018.
Richard Garrison received his BS in Studio Art from the College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY in 1993 and an MFA from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 1995. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA; the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY; Rochester Contemporary Art Center, NY; The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ; the International Print Center, New York, NY; the Elmhurst Museum of Art and the Queens Museum of Art, among others. He lives and maintains his studio in Delmar, NY.
Grosser’s work focuses on the cultural, social, and political effects of software. Grosser’s work has been exhibited at major international venues, exhibitions, and festivals, including Eyebeam in New York, Arebyte in London, Museu de Comunicacōes in Lisbon, Museum Kesselhaus in Berlin, FILE in São Paulo, Digital Arts Festival in Athens, Pikselin Bergen, WRO Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Science Gallery in Dublin, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Kunsthaus Langenthal in Switzerland, and Galerie Charlot in Paris. His work is currently on view as part of AI: More than Human organized by the Barbican Center, London and travel to Groninger Forum in the Netherlands, and 24/7 at Somerset House, London, among others.
Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese have dedicated themselves to the art of collaboration since they first met in Baltimore. Their earliest collaborations began in video art and performance. Over three decades the artists have embraced hardware and software art, limited edition multiples, videos, sculptures and installations using a range of materials, traditional and digital processes. In the late 2000’s, they began installing temporary public monuments during the political conventions a series called melted away. These sculptures of words carved in ice are filmed photographed and streamed as they melt away and disappear. They have presented 7 sculptures in 8 different cities including the conventions in 2008, 2012, and 2016. Articles about their work have been published in the New York Times, Art Forum, Art In America, the Huffington Post, and seen on television and other media. They have received awards and grants including 3 NYFA fellowships as well as a NEA fellowship, two Jerome Foundation Fellowships, a Puffin grant and a number of artists’ residencies.
David Medina, Colombian-Venezuelan plumber, is a computer engineer with a Master in Fine and Visual Arts currently based in Bogotá, Colombia. The politics of interface, translation as expressive medium and language as form are some of the areas of exploration using software, video, performance, print and other media. Co-founder of grama.co with a group of other artists and entities.
Christian Lesmes Mendoza is research, writer and artist. From a research-based practice, his work is directed to explore object-oriented relations from a non-hierarchical and non-subject centered perspective, considering human beings as transcendental as bacteria or viruses. Christian develops site-specific artistic interventions that deconstruct hegemonic narratives. He is also long term research related to digital reality and, therefore, reality itself. Christian is currently part of the researcher team at the Technical University of Delft, Nederlands, exploring object-oriented relations at geologic and human levels.
McKenna holds a joint BA degree – NCAD, Thomas St, Dublin, 2000-2005 Her work is concerned with the observation and constant structuring/restructuring of information systems that attempt to explain the universe and our place in it. Through various mediums she traces different forms of data extraction, collection and communication developed by humans to understand existence; including methods of scientific experiment, technology, language, symbols, storytelling, intuitive belief, or myth. Using her visual art practice as a tool of information collection and data distillation, her works seek to unfold the information hidden in those spaces where the analytic and the intuitive concur. Her practice is a multidisciplinary one consisting of drawing, photography, film, installation, audio and sculptural works. She has received numerous awards and held residencies in New York, Iceland and Ireland.
Emeka Ogboh connects to places with his senses of hearing and taste. Through his audio installations and gastronomic works, Ogboh explores how private, public, collective memories and histories are translated, transformed and encoded into sound and food. These works contemplate how auditory and gustatory experiences capture existential relationships, frame our understanding of the world and provide a context in which to ask critical questions on immigration, globalization, and post-colonialism. Ogboh has participated in numerous international exhibitions including documenta 14, (2017), Athens and Kassel, Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017), the 56th edition of La Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2015), and Dakar Biennale (2014).
Morgan O'Hara was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Japan, earned a Master's Degree in Art from California State University at Los Angeles, had her first solo exhibition in the Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1978. She began working internationally in performance art festivals in 1989, did her first site-specific wall drawings at De Fabriek in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. O’Hara teaches master classes in drawing and the psychology of creativity in art academies in the US, Europe and Asia. O'Hara has done many international residencies including two sessions at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. She is recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Gottleib Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, David and Rosamond Putnam Travel Fund and the Milton and Sally Avery Foundation. Her work is in the permanent collections of many institutions, including: Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Czech National Gallery, Prague; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California; Hood Museum of Art Dartmouth College, New Hampshire; Janacek Museum, Brno, Czech Republic; Macau Art Museum, Macau, China; Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Vrij Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic; Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina. Her permanent site specific wall drawings can be found in the Macau Art Museum, Macau, China; The Canadian Academy Kobe, Japan, and the Vrij Universiteit OZW Building, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Lived in Italy for 21 years. O'Hara became a member of the Elizabeth Foundation in 2010.
Artist and writer, whose research reflects on the connections between digital technologies and political, ecological, and social systems. His work explores water as a medium, suggesting relationships between liquid systems and digital technologies. Recently, he has also conducted research on the internet as a hunting network. He was a professor at the visual arts department of the Javeriana University of Bogotá, a project coordinator and assessor at Plataforma Bogotá: interactive lab for art, science, and technology, and the coordinator of alternative programming at Espacio Odeón, a contemporary art space in Bogotá. Currently he’s undertaking his studies in the “Media Arts Cultures” Erasmus joint master program, based at the Danube University (Austria), Aalborg University (Denmark), and Łódź University (Poland).
PROM is an audiovisual production team comprised of Federico Pozuelo, Javier Ruiz, Martín Alonzo, and sonic artist MGMØ. The members share creative quarters when their paths first intersected at Facultad de Bellas Artes de Madrid before their future paths scattered around Europe. Three of their members work as independent artists while one of them is doing a PhD in Anthropology at Cambridge University. They now collaborate long-distance – Federico is based in Carrara, Italy; his project often link geological materiality with digital metadata. Martin lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and is focused on producing work that implements subversive prosthesis, highly coded interactions, and human perception. Currently living in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Javier combines his research projects with a collaborative art practice. Finally, MGMØ is stationed in Valladolid, Spain, where he is cultivating his sonic identity. His sound is informed by the traditions of Detroit and Dusseldorf music, while he also burrows into the roots of Bakalao and the particulars of Spain’s electronic music history. Prom can refer to a group of individuals belonging to the same generation, or a ball at the end of an academic year. In computer memory terms, PROM also refers to programmable read-only memory, a form of digital memory where the setting of each bit is locked by a fuse or anti-fuse, meaning that the data in them is permanent and cannot be changed. A web series of their video project “orientAtio,-induction-Launch” have been broadcasted by Radial Gallery (Madrid, New York). The collective also develop a publishing project called Prom.run. Their first issue was made public in November 2019.
Born in 1966, Spain. Lives and works between Madrid and Berlin. Since the 90s, the work of Carlos Schwartz has been developed with the same objective: to give everyday objects a transcendent aura using light while looking for a theatrical arrangement in space. The evolution of his work, from his paintings of the 1990s to the reused objects in the 2000s, is gradually penetrating into an increasingly dense conceptual symbolism. The light generates a "logic of estrangement", highlights the dialectic of the permanent and the evanescent, the fixed and the changing, brightness and darkness. A game of opposites that creates levels of meaning in which the work shows its narrative and symbolic potential.
Francesc Torres is perhaps best known for sculptural, multi-media installations that engage in inquiries into social orders based on political and economic power relations. In these often architectural environments, such as The Head of the Dragon (1981), The Fury of the Saints (1996), and Oikonomos (1989), Torres articulates themes relating to the machinery of war and violence in the context of culture and history. His single-channel videotapes continue these investigations, contemplating the tensions between the persistence of time and the fragility of memory in politically charged spaces. Torres' video works are rooted in examinations of objects (architectural ruins, militaristic fetishes, media artifacts, etc.), spiraling outwards through associations, metaphors, and recurring images to link these contextualized narratives with larger cultural constructs. Francesc Torres was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1948. He lived in Paris and Chicago before moving to New York in 1974, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1989. He has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and the D.A.A.D. Berliner Kunstprogramm. He has also received a Fulbright Fellowship.
Gabriel Zea obtained in 2005 his diploma in plastic arts, specialty new technologies at the National University of Colombia and the Master in Technology and Aesthetics of Electronic Arts from the National University Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2013. Zea seeks to understand labor action in the current economic system that produces physical goods and a large amount of information through digital media. He is interested in finding the time invested in productive work, alienation and bureaucracy. His work seeks, as he says, to create alienated aesthetic experiences and expresses himself through video, installation or performance. His work has received numerous awards; he was selected for the X Luis Caballero Prize in Colombia (2018); and was awarded by the IV Biennial of the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation. In Bogotá, Colombia (2016); by the national and international circulation grants of the Colombian Ministry of Culture (2014, 2013, 2012) or by the Honorable Mention of ASAB, high, medium and low technologies (2009). Zea has carried out various artistic residencies in Colombia and Brazil.
Gabriel Zea obtained in 2005 his diploma in plastic arts, specialty new technologies at the National University of Colombia and the Master in Technology and Aesthetics of Electronic Arts from the National University Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2013. Zea seeks to understand labor action in the current economic system that produces physical goods and a large amount of information through digital media. He is interested in finding the time invested in productive work, alienation and bureaucracy. His work seeks, as he says, to create alienated aesthetic experiences and expresses himself through video, installation or performance. His work has received numerous awards; he was selected for the X Luis Caballero Prize in Colombia (2018); and was awarded by the IV Biennial of the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation. In Bogotá, Colombia (2016); by the national and international circulation grants of the Colombian Ministry of Culture (2014, 2013, 2012) or by the Honorable Mention of ASAB, high, medium and low technologies (2009). Zea has carried out various artistic residencies in Colombia and Brazil.
Fernando is a performance artist born in Bogota (1968). Colombian artist, manager and researcher interested in the relationships between art, body and social problems, has been carrying out actions and management cultural and artistic projects since the nineties. Fernando studied Art at the University of Los Andes (Bogoya), he is founder and director of the PerfoArtNet International Performance Biennial and the World Performance Archive, he also directs ArtOpenFundation.org, a foundation dedicated to promoting an art open to everyone, an art that contributes to the construction of society. His works (actions in public space, workshops with communities, the exhibitions he has organized and his writings) shows a deep interest in the events that take place in Colombian actual sociopolitical context, opening spaces that allow artists, people, cultural and state entities to reflect and raise awareness. In the nineties he was co-director of the Casa Guillermo. He has participated in various performance festivals in Colombia and abroad as the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in Argentina, Colombia, RIAP in Canada, etc. He is part of the archive and exhibition of 20 years socially committed organized by Creative Time in New York. In recent years he has been interested in teaching communities to manifest themselves through the body of individuals and the social body, his workshops focus on the transformative power that art has in changing society that we deserve and how the body, through and action can generate reaction, promoting a peaceful march, non-violence and the active and committed attitude that the individual must have in these times.
Born in 1966, Spain. Lives and works between Madrid and Berlin. Since the 90s, the work of Carlos Schwartz has been developed with the same objective: to give everyday objects a transcendent aura using light while looking for a theatrical arrangement in space. The evolution of his work, from his paintings of the 1990s to the reused objects in the 2000s, is gradually penetrating into an increasingly dense conceptual symbolism. The light generates a "logic of estrangement", highlights the dialectic of the permanent and the evanescent, the fixed and the changing, brightness and darkness. A game of opposites that creates levels of meaning in which the work shows its narrative and symbolic potential.
McKenna holds a joint BA degree – NCAD, Thomas St, Dublin, 2000-2005 Her work is concerned with the observation and constant structuring/restructuring of information systems that attempt to explain the universe and our place in it. Through various mediums she traces different forms of data extraction, collection and communication developed by humans to understand existence; including methods of scientific experiment, technology, language, symbols, storytelling, intuitive belief, or myth. Using her visual art practice as a tool of information collection and data distillation, her works seek to unfold the information hidden in those spaces where the analytic and the intuitive concur. Her practice is a multidisciplinary one consisting of drawing, photography, film, installation, audio and sculptural works. She has received numerous awards and held residencies in New York, Iceland and Ireland.
Fernando is a performance artist born in Bogota (1968). Colombian artist, manager and researcher interested in the relationships between art, body and social problems, has been carrying out actions and management cultural and artistic projects since the nineties. Fernando studied Art at the University of Los Andes (Bogoya), he is founder and director of the PerfoArtNet International Performance Biennial and the World Performance Archive, he also directs ArtOpenFundation.org, a foundation dedicated to promoting an art open to everyone, an art that contributes to the construction of society. His works (actions in public space, workshops with communities, the exhibitions he has organized and his writings) shows a deep interest in the events that take place in Colombian actual sociopolitical context, opening spaces that allow artists, people, cultural and state entities to reflect and raise awareness. In the nineties he was co-director of the Casa Guillermo. He has participated in various performance festivals in Colombia and abroad as the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in Argentina, Colombia, RIAP in Canada, etc. He is part of the archive and exhibition of 20 years socially committed organized by Creative Time in New York. In recent years he has been interested in teaching communities to manifest themselves through the body of individuals and the social body, his workshops focus on the transformative power that art has in changing society that we deserve and how the body, through and action can generate reaction, promoting a peaceful march, non-violence and the active and committed attitude that the individual must have in these times.
Emeka Ogboh connects to places with his senses of hearing and taste. Through his audio installations and gastronomic works, Ogboh explores how private, public, collective memories and histories are translated, transformed and encoded into sound and food. These works contemplate how auditory and gustatory experiences capture existential relationships, frame our understanding of the world and provide a context in which to ask critical questions on immigration, globalization, and post-colonialism. Ogboh has participated in numerous international exhibitions including documenta 14, (2017), Athens and Kassel, Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017), the 56th edition of La Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2015), and Dakar Biennale (2014).
Emeka Ogboh connects to places with his senses of hearing and taste. Through his audio installations and gastronomic works, Ogboh explores how private, public, collective memories and histories are translated, transformed and encoded into sound and food. These works contemplate how auditory and gustatory experiences capture existential relationships, frame our understanding of the world and provide a context in which to ask critical questions on immigration, globalization, and post-colonialism. Ogboh has participated in numerous international exhibitions including documenta 14, (2017), Athens and Kassel, Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017), the 56th edition of La Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2015), and Dakar Biennale (2014).
Fernando is a performance artist born in Bogota (1968). Colombian artist, manager and researcher interested in the relationships between art, body and social problems, has been carrying out actions and management cultural and artistic projects since the nineties. Fernando studied Art at the University of Los Andes (Bogoya), he is founder and director of the PerfoArtNet International Performance Biennial and the World Performance Archive, he also directs ArtOpenFundation.org, a foundation dedicated to promoting an art open to everyone, an art that contributes to the construction of society. His works (actions in public space, workshops with communities, the exhibitions he has organized and his writings) shows a deep interest in the events that take place in Colombian actual sociopolitical context, opening spaces that allow artists, people, cultural and state entities to reflect and raise awareness. In the nineties he was co-director of the Casa Guillermo. He has participated in various performance festivals in Colombia and abroad as the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in Argentina, Colombia, RIAP in Canada, etc. He is part of the archive and exhibition of 20 years socially committed organized by Creative Time in New York. In recent years he has been interested in teaching communities to manifest themselves through the body of individuals and the social body, his workshops focus on the transformative power that art has in changing society that we deserve and how the body, through and action can generate reaction, promoting a peaceful march, non-violence and the active and committed attitude that the individual must have in these times.
Morgan O'Hara was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Japan, earned a Master's Degree in Art from California State University at Los Angeles, had her first solo exhibition in the Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1978. She began working internationally in performance art festivals in 1989, did her first site-specific wall drawings at De Fabriek in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. O’Hara teaches master classes in drawing and the psychology of creativity in art academies in the US, Europe and Asia. O'Hara has done many international residencies including two sessions at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. She is recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Gottleib Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, David and Rosamond Putnam Travel Fund and the Milton and Sally Avery Foundation. Her work is in the permanent collections of many institutions, including: Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Czech National Gallery, Prague; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California; Hood Museum of Art Dartmouth College, New Hampshire; Janacek Museum, Brno, Czech Republic; Macau Art Museum, Macau, China; Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Vrij Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic; Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina. Her permanent site specific wall drawings can be found in the Macau Art Museum, Macau, China; The Canadian Academy Kobe, Japan, and the Vrij Universiteit OZW Building, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Lived in Italy for 21 years. O'Hara became a member of the Elizabeth Foundation in 2010.
Morgan O'Hara was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Japan, earned a Master's Degree in Art from California State University at Los Angeles, had her first solo exhibition in the Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1978. She began working internationally in performance art festivals in 1989, did her first site-specific wall drawings at De Fabriek in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. O’Hara teaches master classes in drawing and the psychology of creativity in art academies in the US, Europe and Asia. O'Hara has done many international residencies including two sessions at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. She is recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Gottleib Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, David and Rosamond Putnam Travel Fund and the Milton and Sally Avery Foundation. Her work is in the permanent collections of many institutions, including: Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Czech National Gallery, Prague; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California; Hood Museum of Art Dartmouth College, New Hampshire; Janacek Museum, Brno, Czech Republic; Macau Art Museum, Macau, China; Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Vrij Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic; Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina. Her permanent site specific wall drawings can be found in the Macau Art Museum, Macau, China; The Canadian Academy Kobe, Japan, and the Vrij Universiteit OZW Building, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Lived in Italy for 21 years. O'Hara became a member of the Elizabeth Foundation in 2010.
Gabriel Zea obtained in 2005 his diploma in plastic arts, specialty new technologies at the National University of Colombia and the Master in Technology and Aesthetics of Electronic Arts from the National University Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2013. Zea seeks to understand labor action in the current economic system that produces physical goods and a large amount of information through digital media. He is interested in finding the time invested in productive work, alienation and bureaucracy. His work seeks, as he says, to create alienated aesthetic experiences and expresses himself through video, installation or performance. His work has received numerous awards; he was selected for the X Luis Caballero Prize in Colombia (2018); and was awarded by the IV Biennial of the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation. In Bogotá, Colombia (2016); by the national and international circulation grants of the Colombian Ministry of Culture (2014, 2013, 2012) or by the Honorable Mention of ASAB, high, medium and low technologies (2009). Zea has carried out various artistic residencies in Colombia and Brazil.
Born in 1966, Spain. Lives and works between Madrid and Berlin. Since the 90s, the work of Carlos Schwartz has been developed with the same objective: to give everyday objects a transcendent aura using light while looking for a theatrical arrangement in space. The evolution of his work, from his paintings of the 1990s to the reused objects in the 2000s, is gradually penetrating into an increasingly dense conceptual symbolism. The light generates a "logic of estrangement", highlights the dialectic of the permanent and the evanescent, the fixed and the changing, brightness and darkness. A game of opposites that creates levels of meaning in which the work shows its narrative and symbolic potential.
Artist and writer, whose research reflects on the connections between digital technologies and political, ecological, and social systems. His work explores water as a medium, suggesting relationships between liquid systems and digital technologies. Recently, he has also conducted research on the internet as a hunting network. He was a professor at the visual arts department of the Javeriana University of Bogotá, a project coordinator and assessor at Plataforma Bogotá: interactive lab for art, science, and technology, and the coordinator of alternative programming at Espacio Odeón, a contemporary art space in Bogotá. Currently he’s undertaking his studies in the “Media Arts Cultures” Erasmus joint master program, based at the Danube University (Austria), Aalborg University (Denmark), and Łódź University (Poland).
Artist and writer, whose research reflects on the connections between digital technologies and political, ecological, and social systems. His work explores water as a medium, suggesting relationships between liquid systems and digital technologies. Recently, he has also conducted research on the internet as a hunting network. He was a professor at the visual arts department of the Javeriana University of Bogotá, a project coordinator and assessor at Plataforma Bogotá: interactive lab for art, science, and technology, and the coordinator of alternative programming at Espacio Odeón, a contemporary art space in Bogotá. Currently he’s undertaking his studies in the “Media Arts Cultures” Erasmus joint master program, based at the Danube University (Austria), Aalborg University (Denmark), and Łódź University (Poland).
Francesc Torres is perhaps best known for sculptural, multi-media installations that engage in inquiries into social orders based on political and economic power relations. In these often architectural environments, such as The Head of the Dragon (1981), The Fury of the Saints (1996), and Oikonomos (1989), Torres articulates themes relating to the machinery of war and violence in the context of culture and history. His single-channel videotapes continue these investigations, contemplating the tensions between the persistence of time and the fragility of memory in politically charged spaces. Torres' video works are rooted in examinations of objects (architectural ruins, militaristic fetishes, media artifacts, etc.), spiraling outwards through associations, metaphors, and recurring images to link these contextualized narratives with larger cultural constructs. Francesc Torres was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1948. He lived in Paris and Chicago before moving to New York in 1974, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1989. He has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and the D.A.A.D. Berliner Kunstprogramm. He has also received a Fulbright Fellowship.
Francesc Torres is perhaps best known for sculptural, multi-media installations that engage in inquiries into social orders based on political and economic power relations. In these often architectural environments, such as The Head of the Dragon (1981), The Fury of the Saints (1996), and Oikonomos (1989), Torres articulates themes relating to the machinery of war and violence in the context of culture and history. His single-channel videotapes continue these investigations, contemplating the tensions between the persistence of time and the fragility of memory in politically charged spaces. Torres' video works are rooted in examinations of objects (architectural ruins, militaristic fetishes, media artifacts, etc.), spiraling outwards through associations, metaphors, and recurring images to link these contextualized narratives with larger cultural constructs. Francesc Torres was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1948. He lived in Paris and Chicago before moving to New York in 1974, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1989. He has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and the D.A.A.D. Berliner Kunstprogramm. He has also received a Fulbright Fellowship.
PROM is an audiovisual production team comprised of Federico Pozuelo, Javier Ruiz, Martín Alonzo, and sonic artist MGMØ. The members share creative quarters when their paths first intersected at Facultad de Bellas Artes de Madrid before their future paths scattered around Europe. Three of their members work as independent artists while one of them is doing a PhD in Anthropology at Cambridge University. They now collaborate long-distance – Federico is based in Carrara, Italy; his project often link geological materiality with digital metadata. Martin lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and is focused on producing work that implements subversive prosthesis, highly coded interactions, and human perception. Currently living in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Javier combines his research projects with a collaborative art practice. Finally, MGMØ is stationed in Valladolid, Spain, where he is cultivating his sonic identity. His sound is informed by the traditions of Detroit and Dusseldorf music, while he also burrows into the roots of Bakalao and the particulars of Spain’s electronic music history. Prom can refer to a group of individuals belonging to the same generation, or a ball at the end of an academic year. In computer memory terms, PROM also refers to programmable read-only memory, a form of digital memory where the setting of each bit is locked by a fuse or anti-fuse, meaning that the data in them is permanent and cannot be changed. A web series of their video project “orientAtio,-induction-Launch” have been broadcasted by Radial Gallery (Madrid, New York). The collective also develop a publishing project called Prom.run. Their first issue was made public in November 2019.
PROM is an audiovisual production team comprised of Federico Pozuelo, Javier Ruiz, Martín Alonzo, and sonic artist MGMØ. The members share creative quarters when their paths first intersected at Facultad de Bellas Artes de Madrid before their future paths scattered around Europe. Three of their members work as independent artists while one of them is doing a PhD in Anthropology at Cambridge University. They now collaborate long-distance – Federico is based in Carrara, Italy; his project often link geological materiality with digital metadata. Martin lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and is focused on producing work that implements subversive prosthesis, highly coded interactions, and human perception. Currently living in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Javier combines his research projects with a collaborative art practice. Finally, MGMØ is stationed in Valladolid, Spain, where he is cultivating his sonic identity. His sound is informed by the traditions of Detroit and Dusseldorf music, while he also burrows into the roots of Bakalao and the particulars of Spain’s electronic music history. Prom can refer to a group of individuals belonging to the same generation, or a ball at the end of an academic year. In computer memory terms, PROM also refers to programmable read-only memory, a form of digital memory where the setting of each bit is locked by a fuse or anti-fuse, meaning that the data in them is permanent and cannot be changed. A web series of their video project “orientAtio,-induction-Launch” have been broadcasted by Radial Gallery (Madrid, New York). The collective also develop a publishing project called Prom.run. Their first issue was made public in November 2019.
McKenna holds a joint BA degree – NCAD, Thomas St, Dublin, 2000-2005 Her work is concerned with the observation and constant structuring/restructuring of information systems that attempt to explain the universe and our place in it. Through various mediums she traces different forms of data extraction, collection and communication developed by humans to understand existence; including methods of scientific experiment, technology, language, symbols, storytelling, intuitive belief, or myth. Using her visual art practice as a tool of information collection and data distillation, her works seek to unfold the information hidden in those spaces where the analytic and the intuitive concur. Her practice is a multidisciplinary one consisting of drawing, photography, film, installation, audio and sculptural works. She has received numerous awards and held residencies in New York, Iceland and Ireland.
Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese have dedicated themselves to the art of collaboration since they first met in Baltimore. Their earliest collaborations began in video art and performance. Over three decades the artists have embraced hardware and software art, limited edition multiples, videos, sculptures and installations using a range of materials, traditional and digital processes. In the late 2000’s, they began installing temporary public monuments during the political conventions a series called melted away. These sculptures of words carved in ice are filmed photographed and streamed as they melt away and disappear. They have presented 7 sculptures in 8 different cities including the conventions in 2008, 2012, and 2016. Articles about their work have been published in the New York Times, Art Forum, Art In America, the Huffington Post, and seen on television and other media. They have received awards and grants including 3 NYFA fellowships as well as a NEA fellowship, two Jerome Foundation Fellowships, a Puffin grant and a number of artists’ residencies.
Christian Lesmes Mendoza is research, writer and artist. From a research-based practice, his work is directed to explore object-oriented relations from a non-hierarchical and non-subject centered perspective, considering human beings as transcendental as bacteria or viruses. Christian develops site-specific artistic interventions that deconstruct hegemonic narratives. He is also long term research related to digital reality and, therefore, reality itself. Christian is currently part of the researcher team at the Technical University of Delft, Nederlands, exploring object-oriented relations at geologic and human levels.
Biscotti graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples in 2002 and attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2010-2011. She took part at major international exhibitions, including the 55th Venice Biennale and 13th Istanbul Biennale (2013), Documenta 13 (2012), and Manifesta 9 (2012). Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Witte de With, Rotterdam, Fondazione Ratti, Como, daadgalerie, Berlin (2019), Kunsthaus Baselland, Protocinema Istanbul (2018), V-A-C foundation at GULAG History State Museum in Moscow (2016-2017), Museion Bolzano (2015), Haus Lange Haus Esters, Krefeld, Wiels, Brussels, Sculpture Center, New York (2014), Secession, Vienna, e-flux, New York (2013), CAC Vilnius (2012). She has also exhibited in a number of group exhibitions including Dhaka Art Summit (2020), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019-2018), Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Tate St Ives (2018), Contour Biennale, Mechelen (2017), MAXXI, Rome (2010-2017), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Swiss Institute New York (2016), Sonsbeek, curated by ruangrupa, Arnhem (2016), IMMA Dublin (2015), ICA London, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev (2014), Castello di Rivoli (2012), Museu Serralves, Porto (2010).
Jaime, born in 1966 in Saboyá (Boyacá).After studying Civil Engineering, he entered the Fine Arts of the University of the Andes in Bogotá. Very early on, he became interested in the social and economic problems of large Latin American cities, and carried out various projects, in particular with disoriented young people and people from marginalized populations. His work touches on different fields such as comics, video, installation and photography. His works, notably his photographic installations La vida es una pasarela and 10 metros cúbicos, have been part of numerous group and individual exhibitions. Jaime Ávila participated in the Sao Paulo and Liverpool Biennials (2005), and in the Havana Biennial (2006). His work has received numerous awards. He was invited to the Latin American research and studies program for artists at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin-American Studies at Harvard University where he offers Cuarto Mundo in 2005. In 2007 he was invited to participate in Photoquai du Quai Branly in Paris. His following solo exhibitions were : El traje del Palacio at Nueveochenta Gallery, Bogotá (2018) and Ciudad Perdida at Museo de Arte de Pereira, Pereira (2016) and various art institutions in Colombia, United States, and Mexico as well as, ARCO Madrid (2020).
Fernando, born in 1963 in Armenia (Colombia), lives and works between London and Bogota. Internationally recognized for his subversive work with the body, gender and sexuality. In his works, Arias highlights themes such as nation building, power relations, politics, violence, the armed conflict, the repressive dynamics that have determined religious and political institutions in the human being. Arias's research work is completely rooted in the complex sociopolitical reality of Colombia. Arias denounces the intolerable excess of political, social and cultural violence that intensifies the problems that affect the country, and that involve contemporary society. Involved in the development of social and cultural projects, Arias is one of the two founders of 'More art, more action', a non-profit foundation that since 2011 has been working to generate a platform for interdisciplinary artistic projects with other artists. It involves communities from the Colombian Pacific region. The artist investigates the Colombian reality to discover the various layers that make it up and becomes the means to express the messages of excluded and marginalized communities. His work allows him to understand the inappropriateness and discontent of society.
Fernando, born in 1963 in Armenia (Colombia), lives and works between London and Bogota. Internationally recognized for his subversive work with the body, gender and sexuality. In his works, Arias highlights themes such as nation building, power relations, politics, violence, the armed conflict, the repressive dynamics that have determined religious and political institutions in the human being. Arias's research work is completely rooted in the complex sociopolitical reality of Colombia. Arias denounces the intolerable excess of political, social and cultural violence that intensifies the problems that affect the country, and that involve contemporary society. Involved in the development of social and cultural projects, Arias is one of the two founders of 'More art, more action', a non-profit foundation that since 2011 has been working to generate a platform for interdisciplinary artistic projects with other artists. It involves communities from the Colombian Pacific region. The artist investigates the Colombian reality to discover the various layers that make it up and becomes the means to express the messages of excluded and marginalized communities. His work allows him to understand the inappropriateness and discontent of society.
Edson Barrus born in 1961, Carnaubeira da Penha, Brazil. He lives between Recife and Paris. He is a cultural activist, has created the alternative space Rés do Chão in Rio de Janeiro from 2002 to 2005, a space to study, perform display and investigate on contemporary art practices. Develop now with UTBM the Project Mulato's Dog. Artist granted by CNPQ-Brasil. He is also editor of the magazine Nós Contemporâneos. He has been working with video for almost ten years. The camera is an essential tool in his production, he captures images (in the metro in Berlin, during a demonstration in Paris), frames them as closely as possible (rua Lavradio in Rio de Janeiro, a kitchen in Catskill) and creates very plastic images (water under all its forms) using discreet filming devices: a digital camera and a mobile phone. The sound, never illustrative, is treated on an equal basis with the image whose presence it reinforces. Practicing video allows Edson Barrus to act on everyday life by transforming it into artistic work, provided that this work is considered a social activity. Has participated to many International Film Festival in Europe and in the Americas.
Edson Barrus born in 1961, Carnaubeira da Penha, Brazil. He lives between Recife and Paris. He is a cultural activist, has created the alternative space Rés do Chão in Rio de Janeiro from 2002 to 2005, a space to study, perform display and investigate on contemporary art practices. Develop now with UTBM the Project Mulato's Dog. Artist granted by CNPQ-Brasil. He is also editor of the magazine Nós Contemporâneos. He has been working with video for almost ten years. The camera is an essential tool in his production, he captures images (in the metro in Berlin, during a demonstration in Paris), frames them as closely as possible (rua Lavradio in Rio de Janeiro, a kitchen in Catskill) and creates very plastic images (water under all its forms) using discreet filming devices: a digital camera and a mobile phone. The sound, never illustrative, is treated on an equal basis with the image whose presence it reinforces. Practicing video allows Edson Barrus to act on everyday life by transforming it into artistic work, provided that this work is considered a social activity. Has participated to many International Film Festival in Europe and in the Americas.
Marisa Baumgartner was born in Washington D.C. in 1980 and raised between Washington and Salzburg, Austria. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2002 and her Masters of Fine Arts in Photography from Yale University in 2006. She has exhibited worldwide and had her first two museum shows in the US in 2011. Marisa Baumgartner currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Marisa Baumgartner was born in Washington D.C. in 1980 and raised between Washington and Salzburg, Austria. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2002 and her Masters of Fine Arts in Photography from Yale University in 2006. She has exhibited worldwide and had her first two museum shows in the US in 2011. Marisa Baumgartner currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
A leading figure in video art and experimental cinema in France. Yann Beauvais is an academic, filmmaker, critic, theorist and the author of around thirty short films and installations. He is also the co-founder, in 1982, with Miles McKane, of Light Cone, an association based in Paris dedicated to the service of the creation, distribution and safeguarding of experimental cinema. Perfectly bilingual (French-English), Beauvais has established, since the 1980s, an important network of friendships and ties with experimental American and international filmmakers. Notable artists have deposited their films at Light Cone, making this structure, with more than three thousand five hundred films in its catalogue, the largest European cooperative for the distribution of experimental cinema, and the second in the world after the Film-Makers Cooperative from New York, co-founded by Jonas Mekas in 1962 (which lists five thousand pieces). He was able to establish fruitful dialogues with museum institutions and thus offer experimental cinema greater visibility than in the past. He founded in 2011 with Edson Barrus a cultural space in Recife. He teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy. He also taught aesthetics and the history of experimental cinema at Studio Le Fresnoy, University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle and the University of Florida. He was a curator and programmer at the American Center and works at the National Center for Art and Culture Georges-Pompidou (who gave him a carte blanche in 2007 and in 2010), at the Museum of Modern Art in the city of Paris as well as at the National Gallery of the Jeu de Paume. His articles, published in various journals, have been collected in the collection Poussière d'image, published in 1998, by Éditions Paris experimental. His videos and films had been presented in different festivals and museums around the world.
A leading figure in video art and experimental cinema in France. Yann Beauvais is an academic, filmmaker, critic, theorist and the author of around thirty short films and installations. He is also the co-founder, in 1982, with Miles McKane, of Light Cone, an association based in Paris dedicated to the service of the creation, distribution and safeguarding of experimental cinema. Perfectly bilingual (French-English), Beauvais has established, since the 1980s, an important network of friendships and ties with experimental American and international filmmakers. Notable artists have deposited their films at Light Cone, making this structure, with more than three thousand five hundred films in its catalogue, the largest European cooperative for the distribution of experimental cinema, and the second in the world after the Film-Makers Cooperative from New York, co-founded by Jonas Mekas in 1962 (which lists five thousand pieces). He was able to establish fruitful dialogues with museum institutions and thus offer experimental cinema greater visibility than in the past. He founded in 2011 with Edson Barrus a cultural space in Recife. He teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy. He also taught aesthetics and the history of experimental cinema at Studio Le Fresnoy, University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle and the University of Florida. He was a curator and programmer at the American Center and works at the National Center for Art and Culture Georges-Pompidou (who gave him a carte blanche in 2007 and in 2010), at the Museum of Modern Art in the city of Paris as well as at the National Gallery of the Jeu de Paume. His articles, published in various journals, have been collected in the collection Poussière d'image, published in 1998, by Éditions Paris experimental. His videos and films had been presented in different festivals and museums around the world.
Berkowitz creates installations, videos, photography, audio and objects dealing with social and political critique, social consciousness and the human condition. Beginning in the early seventies, she has shown in museums, biennials and other institutions internationally including PS1, Long Island City, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartegena de Indias, Colombia, The Alternative Museum, NY, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Metrònom, Barcelona, and Museo do Pobo Galego, Santiago de Compostela
Berkowitz creates installations, videos, photography, audio and objects dealing with social and political critique, social consciousness and the human condition. Beginning in the early seventies, she has shown in museums, biennials and other institutions internationally including PS1, Long Island City, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartegena de Indias, Colombia, The Alternative Museum, NY, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Metrònom, Barcelona, and Museo do Pobo Galego, Santiago de Compostela
Biscotti graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples in 2002 and attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2010-2011. She took part at major international exhibitions, including the 55th Venice Biennale and 13th Istanbul Biennale (2013), Documenta 13 (2012), and Manifesta 9 (2012). Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Witte de With, Rotterdam, Fondazione Ratti, Como, daadgalerie, Berlin (2019), Kunsthaus Baselland, Protocinema Istanbul (2018), V-A-C foundation at GULAG History State Museum in Moscow (2016-2017), Museion Bolzano (2015), Haus Lange Haus Esters, Krefeld, Wiels, Brussels, Sculpture Center, New York (2014), Secession, Vienna, e-flux, New York (2013), CAC Vilnius (2012). She has also exhibited in a number of group exhibitions including Dhaka Art Summit (2020), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019-2018), Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Tate St Ives (2018), Contour Biennale, Mechelen (2017), MAXXI, Rome (2010-2017), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Swiss Institute New York (2016), Sonsbeek, curated by ruangrupa, Arnhem (2016), IMMA Dublin (2015), ICA London, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev (2014), Castello di Rivoli (2012), Museu Serralves, Porto (2010).
Dupont is a visual artist born in Colombia (1985). His practice is a question for the politics of presentation in context, a potential space confronting Western rationalism through the articulation of site-specific interventions, deploying the uncanny in bio-semiotical experiences as resistance to language. He’s currently student of the Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought division in The European Graduate School, working the dialogue between Shamanism and Automation. He has realized solo exhibitions such as ‘UUS YAHTX’ in Popayán with the collaboration of the Indigenous Guard of Cauca in 2018, MAPARADOXTERRA at the Cinema of the Museum La Tertulia in Cali (2013); and has participated in collective exhibitions such as ARTECAMARA in ARTBO organized by Helena Producciones in Bogotá (2019), Húesped in Lugar a dudas in Cali (2016), The second Biennale of Montevideo in Uruguay (2014) and ‘Colombia Hoy’ in #1 Cartagena, the contemporary Art Biennale of Cartagena (2014).
Christian Lesmes Mendoza is research, writer and artist. From a research-based practice, his work is directed to explore object-oriented relations from a non-hierarchical and non-subject centered perspective, considering human beings as transcendental as bacteria or viruses. Christian develops site-specific artistic interventions that deconstruct hegemonic narratives. He is also long term research related to digital reality and, therefore, reality itself. Christian is currently part of the researcher team at the Technical University of Delft, Nederlands, exploring object-oriented relations at geologic and human levels.
Dupont is a visual artist born in Colombia (1985). His practice is a question for the politics of presentation in context, a potential space confronting Western rationalism through the articulation of site-specific interventions, deploying the uncanny in bio-semiotical experiences as resistance to language. He’s currently student of the Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought division in The European Graduate School, working the dialogue between Shamanism and Automation. He has realized solo exhibitions such as ‘UUS YAHTX’ in Popayán with the collaboration of the Indigenous Guard of Cauca in 2018, MAPARADOXTERRA at the Cinema of the Museum La Tertulia in Cali (2013); and has participated in collective exhibitions such as ARTECAMARA in ARTBO organized by Helena Producciones in Bogotá (2019), Húesped in Lugar a dudas in Cali (2016), The second Biennale of Montevideo in Uruguay (2014) and ‘Colombia Hoy’ in #1 Cartagena, the contemporary Art Biennale of Cartagena (2014).
William Engelen is a visual artist and composer, born in the Netherlands, living and working in Berlin. His work traverses the spectrum between visual arts and music, poaching strategies from each field to test the boundaries between image and sound. The output includes installations, performances, videos, musical scores and even models. Engelen solo shows include at the Drawing Center, New York; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim; Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück; Central Museum, Utrecht; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo and upcoming at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL. His compositions have been played at Maerzmusik, Berlin; Gaudeamus, Utrecht; Ultima, Oslo. Performers he's collaborated with are: Clemens Merkel, Montreal; Motion Ensemble, NB; Sonar Quartett, Berlin; Joan La Barbara, New York; Dimitrios Polisoidis, Vienna; Talujon, New York; KNM Berlin. His vinyl records are published by Edition Telemark, Berlin.
William Engelen is a visual artist and composer, born in the Netherlands, living and working in Berlin. His work traverses the spectrum between visual arts and music, poaching strategies from each field to test the boundaries between image and sound. The output includes installations, performances, videos, musical scores and even models. Engelen solo shows include at the Drawing Center, New York; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim; Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück; Central Museum, Utrecht; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo and upcoming at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL. His compositions have been played at Maerzmusik, Berlin; Gaudeamus, Utrecht; Ultima, Oslo. Performers he's collaborated with are: Clemens Merkel, Montreal; Motion Ensemble, NB; Sonar Quartett, Berlin; Joan La Barbara, New York; Dimitrios Polisoidis, Vienna; Talujon, New York; KNM Berlin. His vinyl records are published by Edition Telemark, Berlin.
Raphaël Faon and Andres Salgado, graduates of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC) and are currently researchers at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Raphaël Faon proposes to put in crisis the systems of representation, to reveal the construction of reality by a world of images, rather than to produce images of a so-called "real" world. Using archives, streams and manufactured objects, his works focus on photography, installations and digital projects. Andres Salgado starting from the proper simulacrum of the images conveyed by the visual and communication media (cinema, advertising, Internet, television), the artifice is exalted in his work. His images are intimately linked to the axiomatic text that runs through the screens of his videos. Salgado gives priority to different mediums as video, installation, sculpture or photography. Their work has been presented in different exhibitions in Pompidou Centre in Paris and Malaga, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Gallery YGREC in France. They obtained recognitions as the Prize-Winner of the Numeriscope- 104 for the Grand Palais (2019), the Maif Prize (2016), they been finalist for the Research Program Organoïde at Institut Pasteur (2019), Pulsar Prize (2018). Recently they had been in residency of creation at Ateliers Médicis, la-Ville-aux-Clercs.(2018) and they participated at the 4th International Biennale of Casablanca (Morocco) in 2018.
Raphaël Faon and Andres Salgado, graduates of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC) and are currently researchers at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Raphaël Faon proposes to put in crisis the systems of representation, to reveal the construction of reality by a world of images, rather than to produce images of a so-called "real" world. Using archives, streams and manufactured objects, his works focus on photography, installations and digital projects. Andres Salgado starting from the proper simulacrum of the images conveyed by the visual and communication media (cinema, advertising, Internet, television), the artifice is exalted in his work. His images are intimately linked to the axiomatic text that runs through the screens of his videos. Salgado gives priority to different mediums as video, installation, sculpture or photography. Their work has been presented in different exhibitions in Pompidou Centre in Paris and Malaga, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Gallery YGREC in France. They obtained recognitions as the Prize-Winner of the Numeriscope- 104 for the Grand Palais (2019), the Maif Prize (2016), they been finalist for the Research Program Organoïde at Institut Pasteur (2019), Pulsar Prize (2018). Recently they had been in residency of creation at Ateliers Médicis, la-Ville-aux-Clercs.(2018) and they participated at the 4th International Biennale of Casablanca (Morocco) in 2018.
Richard Garrison received his BS in Studio Art from the College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY in 1993 and an MFA from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 1995. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA; the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY; Rochester Contemporary Art Center, NY; The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ; the International Print Center, New York, NY; the Elmhurst Museum of Art and the Queens Museum of Art, among others. He lives and maintains his studio in Delmar, NY.
Richard Garrison received his BS in Studio Art from the College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY in 1993 and an MFA from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 1995. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA; the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY; Rochester Contemporary Art Center, NY; The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ; the International Print Center, New York, NY; the Elmhurst Museum of Art and the Queens Museum of Art, among others. He lives and maintains his studio in Delmar, NY.
Grosser’s work focuses on the cultural, social, and political effects of software. Grosser’s work has been exhibited at major international venues, exhibitions, and festivals, including Eyebeam in New York, Arebyte in London, Museu de Comunicacōes in Lisbon, Museum Kesselhaus in Berlin, FILE in São Paulo, Digital Arts Festival in Athens, Pikselin Bergen, WRO Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Science Gallery in Dublin, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Kunsthaus Langenthal in Switzerland, and Galerie Charlot in Paris. His work is currently on view as part of AI: More than Human organized by the Barbican Center, London and travel to Groninger Forum in the Netherlands, and 24/7 at Somerset House, London, among others.
Grosser’s work focuses on the cultural, social, and political effects of software. Grosser’s work has been exhibited at major international venues, exhibitions, and festivals, including Eyebeam in New York, Arebyte in London, Museu de Comunicacōes in Lisbon, Museum Kesselhaus in Berlin, FILE in São Paulo, Digital Arts Festival in Athens, Pikselin Bergen, WRO Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Science Gallery in Dublin, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Kunsthaus Langenthal in Switzerland, and Galerie Charlot in Paris. His work is currently on view as part of AI: More than Human organized by the Barbican Center, London and travel to Groninger Forum in the Netherlands, and 24/7 at Somerset House, London, among others.
Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese have dedicated themselves to the art of collaboration since they first met in Baltimore. Their earliest collaborations began in video art and performance. Over three decades the artists have embraced hardware and software art, limited edition multiples, videos, sculptures and installations using a range of materials, traditional and digital processes. In the late 2000’s, they began installing temporary public monuments during the political conventions a series called melted away. These sculptures of words carved in ice are filmed photographed and streamed as they melt away and disappear. They have presented 7 sculptures in 8 different cities including the conventions in 2008, 2012, and 2016. Articles about their work have been published in the New York Times, Art Forum, Art In America, the Huffington Post, and seen on television and other media. They have received awards and grants including 3 NYFA fellowships as well as a NEA fellowship, two Jerome Foundation Fellowships, a Puffin grant and a number of artists’ residencies.
Jaime, born in 1966 in Saboyá (Boyacá).After studying Civil Engineering, he entered the Fine Arts of the University of the Andes in Bogotá. Very early on, he became interested in the social and economic problems of large Latin American cities, and carried out various projects, in particular with disoriented young people and people from marginalized populations. His work touches on different fields such as comics, video, installation and photography. His works, notably his photographic installations La vida es una pasarela and 10 metros cúbicos, have been part of numerous group and individual exhibitions. Jaime Ávila participated in the Sao Paulo and Liverpool Biennials (2005), and in the Havana Biennial (2006). His work has received numerous awards. He was invited to the Latin American research and studies program for artists at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin-American Studies at Harvard University where he offers Cuarto Mundo in 2005. In 2007 he was invited to participate in Photoquai du Quai Branly in Paris. His following solo exhibitions were : El traje del Palacio at Nueveochenta Gallery, Bogotá (2018) and Ciudad Perdida at Museo de Arte de Pereira, Pereira (2016) and various art institutions in Colombia, United States, and Mexico as well as, ARCO Madrid (2020).
David Medina, Colombian-Venezuelan plumber, is a computer engineer with a Master in Fine and Visual Arts currently based in Bogotá, Colombia. The politics of interface, translation as expressive medium and language as form are some of the areas of exploration using software, video, performance, print and other media. Co-founder of grama.co with a group of other artists and entities.
David Medina, Colombian-Venezuelan plumber, is a computer engineer with a Master in Fine and Visual Arts currently based in Bogotá, Colombia. The politics of interface, translation as expressive medium and language as form are some of the areas of exploration using software, video, performance, print and other media. Co-founder of grama.co with a group of other artists and entities.
