This year, for the second time, the Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio and the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores | Gobierno de Chile and Ars Electronica Linz collaborated in asking artists, scientists, designers, researchers, entrepreneurs and social activists from Chile or with a Chilean background to participate in the Ars Electronica Festival and discuss the current developments and tendencies in the Chilean media art scene.
Biographies:
Mónica Bate (CL)
Born in Santiago de Chile. Her latest work explores how art, technology and science can dialogue in terms of procedures and symbolic constructions.
Her work has been exhibited in the Victoria & Albert Museum – U.K.; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Museo de Bellas Artes, Fundación Telefónica, TSONAMI – Chile; Google Half Moon Bay SF, NIME Michigan, New York University – USA; Sala Punto de Encuentro – Montevideo, Ventana244 Gallery – Brooklyn, ISEA 2017 – Colombia, among others.
http://etab.cl
http://monicabate.com
Constanza Piña (CL)
Visual artist, dancer and researcher, focused on electronic experimentation, open-source technologies and social practices. Her work reflects on the role of machines in our culture and the human-technological units, questioning the idea of education, capitalism and patriarchy techno-centrist as opposed to open knowledge, autonomy and enhancement of technical manual work.
https://corazonderobota.wordpress.com/
Carla Bolgeri (CL/IT)
Carla Bolgeri Condemarin has been developing her artistic work in the field of choreography and music since 2009. She has directed the pieces Vocals (2018), Un Sismo (2015), Nación (2014), Plan de Extinción (2012), and H (2010), as well as participating in projects as a guest dancer/performer, most notably Junta (FIDCU Festival, 2015). In the field of music, she has acted as composer and vocalist of the band Survey Team, where she composed musical productions Premonición (2016), Split (2013), and Suriname (2012). She is currently developing a new musical project Gramma, which will premiere in September of this year with the album Canción Malvada.
http://www.instagram.com/bolgerimarin
Francisco Marín (CL)
Francisco Marín lives in Santiago de Chile, where he works in visual art, performance and pop music. As an artist he focuses on compositions that explore the relationship between words, images and matter. Using different kind of media his pieces speculate about a material reality of language. From his paintings he unearth messages -either in written languaje or in abstract, figurative shapes- that change kinetically as we approach or move away from them. Accordingly, the science fiction he writes function as narrative imaginary, where different layers of meaning piled up to form new realities. He has presented his art work in Chile, Spain and Nigeria.
http://www.instagram.com/fcomarint
http://www.instagram.com/bolgerimarin
Jean Danton Laffert (CL)
Visual artist and teacher. Magister Media Arts, University of Chile. He has exhibited in various international platforms, on individual and collective exhibitions of video art, installation and electronic art. From a systems-based aesthetic, his work is based on the relationships between art, science and nature. He is currently exploring the binomial concept “nature – technology”, focused on the aspects where the organical and the synthetic are interlaced.
Karin Astudillo (CL)
Studied Humanities and Philosophy at the Alberto Hurtado University. She has worked on interdisciplinary workshops, lectures, manuals and multigenerational teaching work based on the philosophical inquiry method designed by M. Lipman. She is currently investigating on epistemology and the perspectivism in the philosophy of L. Wittgenstein from the notion of form(s) of life.
Camilo Gouet (CL)
Biologist from the University of Chile. PhD in Psychology from the Catholic University of Chile. He has researched on physiology of memory, development psychology (focused on the study of intuition) and cognitive modeling. He is also a teacher and has collaborated with interdisciplinary groups in science diffusion projects.
Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela (CL)
PhD in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin and independent art curator. He has work as an art curator with important Chilean artists in different museums and galleries. He currently is scholar at the Alberto Hurtado University in Santiago, Chile and Director of the Center for Art Studies Foundation CEdA.
