PEOPLE ON BOARD
DANIEL MORENO (Chile) is an IT architect with extensive expertise in cloud services, infrastructure, system architectures, integration, information security, tools, methodologies, programming languages, and technological standards. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Engineering Sciences and a Master’s degree in Philosophy of Sciences.
MERLINA RAÑI
(Brazil) is a curator focused on the intersection of art, science, and technology, with expertise in new media, digital art, NFTs, and the metaverse. Currently, she is researching the use of blockchain in Latin American communities.
CRISTIAN ESPINOZA
(Chile) is an architect who dedicates himself to artistic and architectural practice through research and experimentation in the realms of territories and human rights, following the aesthetic exploration of the so-called “DARK ECOLOGIES.” He is the creator of the Specific Territory Encounter Rostock-Montevideo 2021-22, which brought together artists from South America and Northern Europe to artistically unfold and activate ports of neo-extractivism and post-industry in the global periphery.
ARTISTS AND RESEARCHERS ASSOCIATED
CELESTE ROJAS MUJICA
(Chile, 1987 is a visual artist, photographer, and filmmaker. Currently, she is pursuing a Master’s degree in Film Creation at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola – EQZE (Basque Country). In her work, she investigates the relationship between memory, violence, and imaginaries of the territory. She works with images and archives as means and materials for experimentation around their social uses and political potential, situating her practice at the intersections of fiction and documentary. She has recently exhibited her work at BIENALSUR (Argentina; Chile), Ars Electronica (Austria), Les Rencontres d’Arles (France), the Biennial of Moving Images (Argentina), the International Film Festival of San Sebastián (Spain), and UNSEEN (Netherlands), among others. She lives and works between Buenos Aires, Santiago, and Donostia-San Sebastián. https://celesterojasmugica.com/
FAKTOR a.k.a.
(Argentina, 1988) is a new media artist, composer, and technological developer. Through various mediums such as sculpture, installation, photography, and drawing, he explores the relationships and tensions between the organic, the inorganic, speculative anthropology, and science fiction.
Among his solo exhibitions, “Negro sera el sol en el verano” at ARtlab in 2023 and “Todo mientras sucede parece eterno” at CNBA in 2020 stand out. Among the collective exhibitions and events he has participated in are: Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales at CCK (2022), Riesgo país at Newton Gallery NYC (2022), Vivero at Acefala Galería (2022), No existe tierra más allá at CHELA (2021), 16th National Contest UADE (2021), Ruido Cycle at CCK (2021). He is a founding member of the sound art collective AUTOBUZZ and a curator at the net label Strlac Records.
ELISA BALMACEDA
(Chile, 1985)is a transdisciplinary artist and educator. Following an experimental investigation into invisible ecologies and energies, cosmic-planetary alignments and geometries, technologies of vision and optical instrumentation, decolonial notions of space-time, and Andean phenomenology, her practice focuses on relating, deconstructing, and reimagining the material and spiritual links that interweave the biosphere and technosphere beyond the human within a degraded body/planet. She pursued a master’s degree in art and technology at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Germany, 2016) and a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from the Universidad Católica (Chile, 2007), in addition to informal studies in expanded cinema, archeoastronomy, botany, and Andean semiotics. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Chile, Germany, the United States, Spain, Belgium, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Serbia, among others. Currently, she works as an educator at the LAB de Arte & Ecología at the University of Concepción (Chile) and is also a co-creator of the visionaryecologies.xyz platform, an art and science project in collaboration with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (Germany).
www.elisabalmaceda.xyz
FLORENCIA CURCI
(Argentina, 1986) is a radio and sound artist based in Buenos Aires. Her work aims to create spaces of encounter through sound and listening, with a special focus on the integration of non-human agents.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Policies and Administration from the National University of Tres de Febrero. She completed a postgraduate program in Expanded Music at the National University of San Martín. She participated in the Artists’ Program at the Torcuato Di Tella University and received certification in Deep Listening from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY, USA).
She has been the Director of the Center for Sound Art, an organization under the Ministry of Culture of the Nation, since its establishment in 2017. Since 2020, she has been running Radio CASo, the first experimental music and sound research radio station in Argentina. She is an assistant professor in the courses Laboratory III – Sound (UNTREF) and Study Practices: Sound (UNSAM). She is also a co-curator of the RUIDO Festival, dedicated to promoting experimental artists from Argentina, Latin America, and around the world.
florenciacurci.com
SUSI MARESCA