Paula Pin

Audiovisual performer

Audiovisual performer interested in new forms of technological and social interaction, she collaborates in different events and workshops. Her participation in the interactive workshops (MediaLab-Prado Madrid) and Hangar, her stay at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and her collaboration in the Summer Camp at LABoral, Gijon during 2008 increased her contact with Open Source communities and her interest in DIY and DIT philosophies. In 2010 he stayed at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he collaborated with initiatives such as Ruidocracia (experimental sessions of Live Video and Noise) and continued with projects that address issues of identity, based on relations with the intimate-public body and mechanical-electronic interactions.

He creates interactive kinetic sculptures, immersive environments, audiovisual installations, performance and direct action. Disciplines in which body and space dissolve into an elastic mesh, this almost infinite elasticity opens up new channels through which to communicate desires. Thus, the desire to use one’s own expanded body as a way of interacting with the world is the central axis of his work. This body in contact with its nature and in connection/disconnection with technology expands through visual, sound and mechanical noise, making it possible to open up the natural noise of our organism as a generator of multiple dialogues and new forms of relationship with the environment, from the purely bodily to the political. The body becomes an electronic interface or instrument on which to arrange a series of recycled circuits, inviting interaction through the act of touching. The body expands as an interface, as an open source body. A recycled collective body, a technological organism.

Academic background: Graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, Assistant Technician in Industrial Design and Higher Technician in Image.

Collaborations and workshops: ICT trainer at Obra Social la Caixa. Computer science and video editing. Coordinator and teacher of the artistic teaching department at Les Corts Academy. During 2008-2009 she researches about AE augmented and virtual reality presenting with Wendy Ann Mansilla a tutorial at the University of Lübeck. Currently she focuses her work on the development of various workshops for young people that involve the use of low tech technologies and develops various devices that allow the public to interact with the audiovisual synthesis.

Performance:

2011: Sound experimentation with Las Casi Casiotone and Graham Bell Tornado, LABoral Gijón; Performance with USB Serial BICT LABoral Centro de Arte; Mic workshop at Summer Camp, LABoral; Ecosex Black Wedding, LABoral; Ecosex Silver Wedding to the Rocks; Pati de les Dones, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Spain; LPM, Live Performance Meeting, Rome, Italy.

2010: Danças: dos sons e das escutas” at CCSP audiovisual performance, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Audiovisual collaboration in Ruidocracia, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Collaboration in Summer Camp, LABoral, Gijón.

2008-2011: Live video performance, Lempika, Barcelona.

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