Exchanges: selected scholarship holders
As part of the program, the scholarship holders have the opportunity to apply for a work placement of between one and two months at one of the program's partner institutions. The objective is to expand knowledge about new approaches to creative processes, work methodologies, device design, theoretical frameworks and management and production models in line with the current context.
The scholarship recipients of the first edition of the program had the opportunity to apply for the Nano Laboratory – Center for Letters and Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; the FAIR Nucleus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile; the Voltage Festival of the Department of Art of the University of the Andes and the MASS Festival of the Department of Design of the Faculty of Integrated Arts of the University of Valle.
The selection of participants was carried out by each of the institutions that will receive the scholarship recipients during the second half of the year.
During their work placements, they will be able to develop a research and production project that will be presented at the international festivals organised by each university.
UFRJ – NANO Laboratory:
Lucia Jasmine Tarela – Image and Sound Designer at FADU, UBA. 3D animator, creator of digital artworks, video poet and non-creative writer. Creator of Video-poetry and Lunar Earthquake, a virtual reality installation. Researcher in the following Research Projects: 1_ Violent screens, dimensions of violence in contemporary audiovisual production 2_ IDIS Project 3_ Technopoetics of audiovisual design 4_ The exposed image: essayism and performativity.
Laura Palavecino – She is a visual artist, teacher and researcher in the field of technological art. She has a Master's degree in Electronic Arts and is an Image and Sound Designer. Through interdisciplinary multimedia creation processes, she addresses environmental issues by connecting science, ancestral knowledge and game design. Her work has been exhibited in Argentina and abroad.
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile – FAIR Core:
Malena Souto Arena – Graduated in Film from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Curator and teacher specializing in experimental film and sound, audiovisual and digital electronic art. Her curatorial essays focus on installation experiences. She conceives her practice as a scientific device in which the curating of exhibitions operates as a means for academic research, linked to philosophy and art theory.
Gabriela Munguia - Mexican transmedia artist, researcher and teacher. From the experimental borders between art, science and technology, she addresses issues of geopolitics and environmental justice. Founder of the Laboratorio de Ecologías Invisibles and member of the collectives Electrobiota, EcoEstéticas and AIseeds Project. Her work has received various awards such as the Prince Claus-Goethe Institut Mentorship Award, the CIFO-Ars Electronica Award, among others. Her work has participated in exhibitions and festivals in the Americas, Europe, Iran and Egypt.
University of Los Andes – Festival Voltage:
Pablo Chimenti – Sound artist. His artistic production explores sound and its environment, the voice and its discursive field, and the relationships between acoustic and electronic sources. He works in various formats: installations, performances, electroacoustic and instrumental pieces - with non-traditional instruments. He teaches at the National University of Quilmes, UNA and UNTREF.
University of Valle – MASS:
Juan Pablo Ferlat – Artist working in sculptures, installations and systems.
Her practice explores the fusion of worldviews that underscore the power of technological speculation to illuminate new narratives and images of the possible.