Nelson Vergara
He is director of Plastic Arts and professor of the area of Media Arts at the National University of Colombia. Lives and works in Bogotá, Colonia and Berlin. He works as a media designer and as a designer of interactive and media solutions for German Arts and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. He was director of the JuKS Video and Media Workshop, Pankow. He has received important recognitions such as the Honorable Mention, IICA Painting Prize, First Prize, Microsoft-Netd@ys 2001 and First Prize, Internet Project "Symbole in Bewegung", Netd@ys 2004, and he was one of the six artists nominated for the 2009 Luis Caballero award, in Colombia.