Juan Cortes

Colombia www.juan-cortes.net

  The Colombian artist, born in 1989, lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia. My works take multiple forms, such as installation works, recordings, and concert pieces. I am interested in sound and the natural forces that are the basis and foundation of my work. I am also interested in interdisciplinary and research processes.

Jorge Luis Vaca Forero

Colombia

Plastic Artist from the Universidad de los Andes with emphasis in Electronic Media and specialist in History and Theory of Modern and Contemporary Art. He was linked as an associate researcher to the Project "Documents of the 20th Century Latin American and Latino Art", coordinated by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas, an office registered with the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas (United States). His research and creation work focuses on the area of media art and the relationship of technology with respect to the development of different Artistic Practices in Colombia, through media such as electronics, photography, video and installation. He has been a contributor to publications such as Errata, El Astrolabio and La Revista Cronopio and a speaker at events such as the International Image Festival, held by the University of Caldas. In turn, he has been awarded internationally within the framework of the I Call for Electronic Art sponsored by the Outsiders Art Foundation in Madrid, within the framework of the JustMad6 Emerging Art Fair.

abdu eljaiek

Colombia

Abdu Eljaiek has been exhibiting individually and collectively since 1962. His career has developed mainly between the cities of Bogotá and Barranquilla. Internationally, he has had solo shows in Belgium, France, Poland and the former Yugoslavia. Within the national context, he has exhibited at the Modern Art Museum of Cartagena (2013), the ASAB Gallery of the District University (2006), the La Cometa Gallery (2001), the Centro Colombo Americano-Manizales (1997), the Rayo Museum Gallery (1989), The Santa Fe Gallery (1981), The Luis Ángel Arango Library (1978), The Colombian American Center - Bogotá (1975), The French Colombian Alliance - Bogotá (1970), The Callejón Gallery (1963) and The Modern Art Gallery (1962), among many others. He has been deserving of distinctions such as the I Color Prize of the II Art Salon of the Foto Club Bacatá (1967), the I Color Prize of the National Photographic Art Salon of the Foto Club Bacatá (1972), the Artistic Merit Award of the District Institute of Culture and Tourism (1981), the 1st prize of the Sixth Photographic Contest of the Santafé de Medellín Zoo (1992) and the Tribute to Managing Artists (2014) from the District Secretary of Culture and Tourism. He has received multiple scholarships (1984-1997) from the National Federation of Coffee Growers, to carry out artistic works and photographic exhibitions in Europe. Similarly, he was invited by the State Department of the United States of America (1974) to hold a training seminar with the renowned photographer Ansel Adams (San Francisco, 1902 - California, 1984). In a complementary way, it is worth noting that he was invited several times to the National Salon of Artists and has been given different recognitions for his career and professional quality in plastic and visual arts. His work has been reviewed in publications such as The International Encyclopedia of Photographers From 1839 to Our Days (1992), a collection edited by Cámara Oscura Ediciones, in Hermance, Switzerland, and the European House of Photography, in Paris, France.

Luciana Fleischmann

Argentina

Luciana Fleischman has a degree in Social Communication from the National University of Rosario (Argentina), a Master's in Communication, Image and Information from the Fluminense Federal University (Brazil) and a PhD student in Communication and Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). He lives in Rio de Janeiro, where he produces and manages experimental activities in art and free technologies. Member of the organization team of the Tropixel-Art, Science, Technology and Society Festival (Ubatuba, Brazil) http://tropixel.ubalab.org/, the Aprender Brincando project, which develops online learning laboratories in public schools in Rio de Janeiro http://labhipermidia.wordpress.com/, and the Redelabs platform http://redelabs.org/. He is currently in Colombia doing a residency at Platohedro http://platohedro.org/ where he investigates projects and spaces for experimentation in art and technology in Medellín.

Federico Pardo

SIB - Alexander von Humboldt Institute Colombia

Biologist from the Universidad de los Andes and audiovisual producer from the University of Montana in Bozeman. Federico works as an educator, photographer, and documentary producer with an emphasis on social and environmental issues. He has been carrying his cameras on his shoulder for more than ten years, and his sensitivity to the natural world has allowed him to work for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, National Geographic, the Humboldt Institute, and Univision, among others. Thanks to his work, Federico has won awards at various documentary film festivals and has been invited as a presenter at TEDx Bogotá and Creative Mornings. Federico is a co-founder and contributor to the EverydayLatinAmerica and EverydayMacondo Instagram communities. Today he works as an audiovisual media producer for Trópico Media, his company.

Fabian Esteban Alvarez Rojas

Argentina Design Project Colombia

Social communicator from the Central University of Colombia, candidate for Master in History and Criticism of Architecture, Design and Urbanism from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Among his most significant experiences in the field of communication and design is the voluntary coordination of Memefest Colombia (www.memefest.org) for two years, a project from which he would derive after graduating as a journalist at the digital publication www.elniuton.com , a kind of blog specialized in design, art, science and technology, of which he was a part for four years, until he reached proyectodiseño, a Colombian publication specialized in design and architecture, in which he originally fulfilled the role of editor, later that of deputy director of content, and at this moment that of correspondent in Argentina. In his portfolio stands out the production of what was his undergraduate thesis 'Approach to the ethical and aesthetic possibilities of journalistic discourse in postmodernity' and his master's thesis that deals with the impact of the first industrial revolution in Colombia and the articulation of the national values around the artifacts produced either by design, art, science or technology available between 1897 and 1910.

Active tele-spaces 

A sample of performance arts and telematic concerts Mario Valencia - Professor University of Caldas / Juan Reyes The Telematics exhibition Tele-espacios activos proposes the presentation of different works and projects related to the production of forms of expression that use advanced networks as a means to express ideas. The result of these works is ubiquitous both in space and in time, since these events take place in different geographical locations on the planet, in real time and in different time zones. The delay due to the transport and travel of data also implants a seal that makes these works characteristic.

Juan Reyes

Colombia ccrma.stanford.edu/~juanig

Composer and artist, Juan Reyes is also a founding member of MagInvent.ORG, an effort around the arts, science and technology, promoting dynamics such as Artelab, expyeZp and the Colloquio de Arte Mediatico, which support the development of new music and the evolution of the electronic arts. He has earned degrees in systems, mathematics, and music focused on the study and performance of Computer Music at the University of Tampa and the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University. Across a variety of disciplines, he has studied with John Chowning, Chris Chafe, Julius Smith III, Jonathan Berger, Brian Ferneyhough, Terry Mohn, and Max Mathews. His current interests are oriented around remote interaction, as well as models of gesture and touch applied to both acoustics and musical expression.