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Curriculum VitaeCurriculum Vitae

Date of birth: February 25th, 1971

Place of birth: La Plata, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Works as programmer, designer and web site developer.

 

1996 – 2003: Studied Philosophy at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Self-taught in everything related to design, visual arts and programming.

 

Honors and awards:

2006: Interactive video 'Void' gets honorary mention at Primer Concurso Nacional UADE, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2006: 'Dreamlines' receives the IBM Media Art Award at 19 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany

2005: Digital image work 'Intimidad' gets first prize at Premio Mamba – Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2005: Project 'Outsource Me!' gets stipendium for development in the context of the festival Readme 100 Temporary Software Art Factory, organized by runme.org. Outcome of the project was presented at the State and City Library, Dortmund, Germany.

2005: Net Art work 'Dreamlines' finalist at the Internationaler Medien Kunst Preis, organized by the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.

2003: Interactive animation 'Autopintador' gets third prize at DIBA'03, Interactive Design Competition organized by the Centro Metropolitano de Diseño of the Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.

2002: Honorary Mention at Nagoya Design Do!, international design competition organized by International Design Center Nagoya, from Nagoya, Japan.

 

Recent exhibitions:

2009: Data visualization project 'Evolution of Innovation' developed at Visualizar ’09, Madrid, Spain

2009: Social network 'Wish Café' especially commissioned for Extranjerías, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2009: 'Dreamlines' at Arte Nuevo Interactiva, Mérida, Mexico

2008: Net Art work 'Migraciones' shown at fair ArteBA 2008, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2007: Installation version of 'Dreamlines' at FILE 2007, Sao Paulo, Brasil.

2007: Installation version of  'Dreamlines' shown at fair ArteBA 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2007: Two video installations shown at festival Cultura y Media, Centro Cultural General San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2007: Net Art work 'Go-Logo' invited to festival Designmai 07, Berlin, Germany.

2006: Digital image work 'Intimidad' shown at Interface and Society juried exhibition organized by Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway.

2006: Installation version of 'Dreamlines' shown atNorwich International Animation Festival, Norwich, England.

2006: Installation version of 'Dreamlines' shown atManifesto: GenArt, Prague, Czech Republic.

2006: Net Art work ‘Google Variations’ selected at International Festival of Radical Communication Memefest 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2006: Installation version of 'Dreamlines' presented at Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

2006: 'Dreamlines' shown at OFFF International Festival, Barcelona, Spain

2006: 'Dreamlines' chosen for front-page exhibition at the Processing web site: http://processing.org

2006: 'Dreamlines' selected for exhibition at Transmediale 06, Berlin, Germany.

2005: Net art work 'Migraciones' finalist at Ingenio 400, net art competition organized by the Ministerio de Cultura, Spain.

2005: Geopolitical discussion system 'Geopolio', exhibited at the 5ta Bienal del Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brasil. Developed in colaboration with the group 'm7red' (Mauricio Corbalán – Pio Torroja)

2005: Net Art work 'Dreamlines' selected for exhibition at the Encuentro Iberoamericano de Nuevas Tendencias en Arte y Tecnología, Barcelona, Spain.

2005: Animated short film 'Road Movie' shown at Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2004: Digital interactive installation shown at Programa de Talleres para las Artes Visuales del CCRojas/UBA - Kuitca (2003.2005), Buenos Aires.

2004: Non-digital work exhibited at Estudio Abierto 2004, a large art event organized by the government of Buenos Aires city.

2004: Animated short film 'Road Movie' shown at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata, Argentina.

 

Teaching experience

2009 - current: Professorship at Maestría en Artes Electrónicas, post-degree program by the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2009: 'Sistemas generativos: Cómo adiestrar a la computadora para que haga arte en lugar de uno', 24-hour workshop at the Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, Argentina

2008: 'Technologies for Net Art', 40-hour workshop at the Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, Argentina

2007: 'Web 2.0 Tools and Services', intensive 3-day workshop at Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2005: 'Object-oriented Programming', 12-hour workshop at Fundación Start, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2005: 'Website development', 12-hour workshop at Fundación Start, Buenos Aires, Argentina.