ARCOMadrid 2017 Residencies. Selected Artists

Within the framework of the activities sponsored by the Argentine National Ministry of Culture for ARCOmadrid 2017, the National Endowment for the Arts of Argentina (FNA) is funding 10 creative residencies at Medialab-Prado, Ranchito-Matadero and Casa de Velázquez.

From 27 January to 27 February, 2 Argentinian artists will undertake residencies: Juan Pablo Sorrentino and Leonardo Solaas:

* Leonardo Solaas is a philosopher who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. He is self-taught in the areas of programming, digital media and art. The artist, who has won awards such as the IBM Media Art Award (Stuttgart, Germany) and the Mamba - Telefónica Foundation Art and New Technologies Award (Buenos Aires), previously spent time at Medialab-Madrid in 2009, for Visualizar'09.

“For a long time now I’ve been working on generating images with programming and algorithmic procedures, guided by the notion of exploring certain pictorial qualities that remove the final result from the clichéd realm of ‘computer-made art’ and explore potential links between the digital image and art history”, he explains in regard to his project.

For the artist, interactive installations are an interesting way of applying these developments in computer technology. In such installations, “the public is at once observer and creator, in an expressive process mediated by the computer”. And this is the universe that he will endeavour to keep exploring during the residency.

http://solaas.com.ar
https://vimeo.com/191840686

* Juan Pablo Sorrentino is a sound artist from Chaco who divides his time living and working in Buenos Aires and in Chaco. He received his Bachelor of Music in Composition from the University of Córdoba and specialises in Video and Digital Technology, which he perfected at the Internationale Musikinstitut Darmstadt (IMD) in Germany, with sound artist Peter Ablinger.

“In 2014 I developed a project entitled Motto, a concert that uses a forest or park as an auditorium, where eight performers –each equipped with a 'sound-backpack' hooked up to a microphone– revolve around the audience, amplifying the sounds of nature”, says Sorrentino. “Based on this experience, I began to explore the physical relationships between sound and nature, the nervous system, perception, psychoacoustics and the connection to the Schumann resonances, solar waves and the impact of frequencies on human behaviour”.

“Medialab Prado is the ideal ecosystem to allow me to continue my research. Many of the experiences will also be used towards a sound art exhibition in 2017 in the Chaco forest, a sort of outdoor sound art museum”, he promises.

http://www.juansorrentino.com.ar/Derrumbe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09NZqPn5-jY

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