María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde
1 July 2017 – 31 December 2017
María Castellanos is an artist and researcher. She holds a degree and PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo with the thesis La piel biónica. Technological membranes as body interfaces in artistic practice, in which she researches about technological prostheses, focusing her attention on the hybridizations between cyborgs and wearables as a paradigm of expansion of human sensory capabilities.
In 2009 he began to combine his individual artistic work with his work within the artistic duo uh513, together with Alberto Valverde.
His work has been awarded in numerous competitions, among them the award Artista Revelación del Principado de Asturias in 2008, Premio Tentaciones 2011 – Feria Estampa, Madrid – the production grant AlNorte 2012, the Astragal award 2013- within the program Cuturaquí del Principado de Asturias-, Next Things Award 2015, joint call by LABoral Centro de Arte and Telefónica I+D, the residency grant at SoftLab at Umeå University, Sweden in 2016 and the Nomination, also in 2016, in the STARTS Prize called by Ars Electronica.
www.mariacastellanos.net
http://uh513.com/
Alberto Valverde , artist and technologist. With extensive experience in systems design, creation of interactive environments, multimedia shows, web design and robotics. He has taught multimedia subjects in the Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Vigo and in the Master of Audiovisual Animation and Illustrated Book at the University of Vigo. In his work he investigates chaos as a form of order, proposing the creation of random vectors, while paying special interest to the relationship between human and machine.
In 2009 he begins to combine his individual artistic work, with his work within the artistic duo uh513, along with Maria Castellanos.
In 2010 he received the first prize in the 11th International Exhibition Unión Fenosa. Organized by the MAC of A Coruña, thanks to the interactive installation Reflejos y Antireflejos. His work has also been awarded in Tentaciones 2011 -Estampa. Madrid, in AlNorte 2012. As well as in Next Things 2015 -joint call by LABoral Centro de Arte and Telefónica I+D-, the residency grant at SoftLab at Umeå University, Sweden in 2016 and the Nomination, also in 2016, in the STARTS Prize called by Ars Electronica.
Project in residence
Ensayo y error del posthumano
Trial and error of the posthuman is a sculptural study of the posthuman through which we will try to establish the canon of the amplified human future. Throughout the history of art, sculpture has been constituted as a tool for the representation of the body. Pursuing with it the ideal of beauty; harmonious bodies in which perfection was sought through proportions. However, the canons that established these perfect bodies have not remained unchanged. At the end of the nineties, in the midst of the cyborg era, the concept of posthuman began to become popular to refer to a new being that emerges through a culture of new technologies, plastic surgery and genetic modifications, advocating a modified natural world.
