jaime del val
Spain
www.reverso.org
Jaime del Val (Madrid 1974) is a multidisciplinary artist, composer and pianist, visual and digital artist, performer and choreographer; activist (gay/queer and environmental); metahumanist philosopher; producer, editor and director of the REVERSO Project from where he coordinates various initiatives at the crossroads of the body, art and technology.
His meta-performances and interactive, electroacoustic, video, virtual architecture and urban intervention dance performances have been presented in Europe, South and North America and Africa, as well as the Nomad Body Technologies Workshop, which he has organized since 2003, and his research writings theory have been disseminated in numerous print and online publications. In 2000, he edited Reverso Magazine, the first academic publication on queer theory in Spanish.
Since 2004, he has coordinated several of the most emblematic fronts in the fight against urban speculation in Spain, among which the stoppage of the illegal Algarrobico hotel in Almería stands out, which is why in 2008 it was chosen by the newspaper El País as one of the 100 Ibero-Americans of the Year, where he was defined by Tomas Marco as "One of the finest examples of a modern artist concerned with various forms of art and the problems of his time.... a clear example of how the world can be changed through art…”.
He is the Spanish coordinator of the pioneering European project ETP – European Teleplaetaus, for the construction of interactive telematic environments. He coordinates the Common Body group at Medialab Madrid. Since 2008 he is Chairman of the Technarte congress in Bilbao. In 2010, together with his mother, the singer Ana Higueras, he presented the NUEVE SIGLOS DE CANCIÓN project, in which he is a producer, pianist, director and sound, video and editing technician, musicologist and composer.
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