Mark Napier >
http://www.potatoland.org/

 

 

 

Mark Napier, painter-turned-new-media-artist, is a pioneer in the realm of Internet art. Through his early web-based artworks such as “The Shredder”, “Digital Landfill”, and “Feed”, Napier explores the potential of worldwide networks as a public space for virtual art. His experience as a software developer informs Napier’s software craft– he uses code as an expressive form, and the Internet as his exhibition space and laboratory. Napier’s online studio, potatoland.org, is an open playground of interactive artwork. Napier creates a wide range of projects that appropriate data from the web– transforming content into abstraction, text into graphics, and information into art.

Napier’s work has been included in seminal exhibitions of Digital Art including the Whitney Museum of American Art's Data Dynamics exhibition, the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the San Francisco Museum of Art's 010101: Art in the Age of Technology, and the net_condition exhibition at ZKM (Center for Art & Media) in Karlsruhe, Germany.

A recipient of grants from Creative Capital, NYFA, and the Greenwall Foundation, Napier has also been commissioned to create artwork for SFMOMA, the Whitney Museum, and the Guggenheim. Napier’s work has also been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, PS1, the Walker Arts Center, Ars Electronica, The Kitchen, Kunstlerhaus Vienna, Transmediale, Bard College, the Princeton Art Museum, ASCII Digital Festival, bitforms gallery in Seoul, and la Villette in Paris among many others.

Reviews of his work have been published in ArtForum, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ArtNews, Leonardo, ArtByte, The New Yorker, Museum News, Wired, San Francisco Chronicle, Village Voice, The Independent, The Daily News, CIAC Electronic Art Magazine, Chicago Tribune, The Star Ledger, Forbes, Publish, ZD Net, Utne Arts Extra, L’Expansion, and Yahoo Internet Life. Also his projects have been cited in Internet Art by Rachel Greene, Digital Art by Christiane Paul, The New Internet Design Project > Reloaded by Patrick Burgoyne and Liz Faber.

He holds a Bachelors of Fine Art from Syracuse University, and has taught in the ITP department of New York University.

 

 

 

Christopher Kucinski >
http://www.dearraindrop.org/
http://ckucinski.com/projects.html

 

Christopher Kucinski is a northamerican visual artist that combines tradicional techniques, electronics, crafts, physical computing and high tech softwares to develop his work.
As part of the new yorker Art Collective Dearraindrop, he designs and build big scale installations.

Kucinski develops musical instruments and sounds based on patterns and code. He researches the relationship between code, color and shape. His work relate different techniques, mixes sound, fabric, video, painting, installation, performance, interactive sculpture and multimedia.

He holds a BFA at the Skidmore College in New York. Others studies at the Sophia
University, Japan,  at the Studio Art Center International (SACI), Italy, and later, he gets his Master’s degree  at the Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York
University

Kucinski had shown his work in Denmark, Sweeden, Italy, England, Canada, EE. UU., Norway, among others.

Some of his work: Riddle of the Sphinx , Cellular Automata FM Synthesizer , Laser Lighthouse, Drum Machina.

 

 

 

Enrique Zamudio >

 

Artist and Professor of  the Arts Faculty of Universidad de Chile, BFA and Master in Digital Arts of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. With a vast and well known carreer, Zamudio had developed his activity on diverse disciplines such as photography, etching and new Technologies. He is currently researching on capture systems and transitional images processing.
Zamudio had been resident at the Oregon School Of Arts and Crafts, in Portland, USA, had lived and worked in Barcelona and New York.

His work had been shown extensively in Chile and worlwide.

 

 

 

Sergio Rojas >

 

Philosophy Professor, graduated from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in 1989. He got a postgraduate degree of Magister in Philosophy at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in 1995, and became a doctor in Literatura at the Universidad de Chile, in 2006.

He is currently  the Director of Aesthetics of the Department of Theory of the Arts Faculty of
Universidad de Chile. Profesor of the Magister in Theory and Art History, part of the staff of the Philosophy Doctorate of the same University.
Between 2001 and 2006, Director of the Philosophy School of Arcis University.
Rojas had dictate diverse lectures and courses among different Universities in Chile, Argentina and Germany.
In 2004, Rojas got a scholarship from the Goethe Institut, in Düsseldorf, Germany.

He permanently collaborates with visual artists, writes for catalogues, had been jury and curator of different exhibitions for the Gabriela Mistral and BECH Gallery.
Rojas had received the Fund for Reading and Book Development many times.

He had published essays, articles and books about modern philosophy and aesthetics in Chile and overseas.