BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY [re][des]arm[o]

ROBERTO LARRAGUIBEL, Chilean engineer, is born in 1957. His background is based on electronic engineering, in which he has been focused the past 20 years in the field of instrumentation. Starting in 1998, his experience in instrumentation research and production, begins to incorporate findings from research projects in HCI (Human Computer Interaction), psychophysics, instrumentation, and diagnostic applications. Similarly, his creative restlessness, leads him to experiment with installations of artistic works by applying new audio-visual resources, designing the intervention of monumental spaces, and innovative presentation of videos. He has participated in artistic installations of several Chilean artists, such as Lotty Rosenfeld, Demian Schopf, and Alicia Villareal among others.

A pioneer in Chile in the development of models that join art and technology, he participates in 2003 in the 6th Biennial of Video and New Media in Santiago, with an installation of light, sound, and video based on an interpretation of signals of equilibrium, SICO-CIBER-ARTE. In 2006, he actively participates along with Nury Gaviola, Víctor Larraguibel and Lotty Rosenfeld, in the creation of a permanent piece for Santiago’s Museo de la Solidaridad (Solidarity Museum), that embodies a memorial of Salvador Allende (MEMORIAL SALVADOR ALLENDE), an installation composed of a kinetic sculpture, a sonorous sculpture, and an installation of objects that summarize the voices of an entire period in the history of Chile.  In 2008, he also participates in a collective exhibit, digitalChile_08 in SAT, Montreal, with EQUILIBRIUM_EXPLORER, in which visual perception is manipulated by the subject’s Bio-feedback scheme. 

Currently he is working on [re][des]arm[o], an installation that will be in exhibit starting April 8th in Santiago’s Museo de las Artes Visuales, MAVI (Museum of Visual Arts). This is a joint project with Yto Aranda and Nury Gaviola, which is financed by the Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (National Fund for Culture and the Arts), a recognition he receives for a second time.  (www.artoficio.com)

YTO ARANDA (ISABEL), Chilean digital visual artist, is born in 1966. She investigates different visual languages, from its pictorial formation to new digital media, through multidisciplinary crossovers.  She uses de visual nature of ASCII as a base of visual aesthetic, a point of juncture in her different works, leading each artistic experience influencing on others (crossover), hence opening the frontiers of each discipline to finally come together in pieces that intend to be the result of both an individual as well as a collective experience.  Her main thematic interest is the human being, his communication and environment (natural – artificial).  She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a specialization in painting from the Universidad de Chile. She began to paint the abstract claiming a preference for pure paint, making expressive elements protagonists in her work.  In 1995 she begins to work with digital art.  In 1999 she publishes Escáner Cultural, a virtual magazine of art and culture, which she continues to edit on a monthly basis to this day. (www.escaner.cl)

In 1999, she begins to participate in mail art networks fulfilling two summits: In 2001, "Moscas en la Sopa (Comunicación y Vanguardia)" (Flies in Soup – Communication and Vanguard), and in 2004, “F5, Actualiza tu Arte” (F5, Update your Art). In 2004 she receives the award for “Critique in Visual Arts Specialty, National Category, Art Critics Circle, Valparaiso.”  In 2008, she creates “Comunidad Abierta Arte Ciencia y Tecnología - www.abierta.cl” (Open Community of Art, Science and Technology) on the internet.

Since 2004, she has been working as a Professor of Multimedia Applications at the Universidad del Pacífico, Santiago. She has participated in national and international festivals. (www.yto.cl)

Currently, she is working on [re][des]arm[o], an installation that will be in exhibit starting April 8th in Santiago’s Museo de las Artes Visuales, MAVI (Museum of Visual Arts). This is a joint project with Roberto Larraguibel and Nury Gaviola, which is financed by the Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (National Fund for Culture and the Arts). (www.artoficio.com)

NURY GAVIOLA, Chilean, is born in 1957. Holding a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Literature (San Jose State University, San Jose, CA USA) and a post-graduate degree in Aesthetics (Universidad Católica de Chile), she worked since 1990 for technology based companies in Chile. From 1995 to 2001, she participates as executive producer of Octubre Cine y TV , dedicated to commercial and artistic film.  She works as General and Creative Producer in national and international where she participated in various stages of creative design, development and fabrication of new multimedia technologies.  These events include: 1998 – 2^nd Presidential Summit of the Americas; 1999 – Chilean Pavillion, Guest of Honor in the International Book Fair, Guadalajara, México; 1999 – Design and Production of Chile’s participation in Hannover’s International Fair.

From 2001, she works alongside Roberto Larraguibel in artOficio, a Chilean company that is a pioneer in the development of proposals that join art, science, and technology.  Here she has worked in the development of marketing artifacts materializing the concept of experiential marketing.  She has participated in various installations of Chilean artists, such as Lotty Rosenfeld, Demian Schopf, Alicia Villareal, among others.  She also participated in the conceptual, development, execution, and installation process of 3 commemorative works for the installation “Memorial de Allende” Museo de la Solidaridad (“Allende Memorial” Solidarity Museum).

Currently, she is working on [re][des]arm[o], an installation that will be in exhibit starting April 8th in Santiago’s Museo de las Artes Visuales, MAVI (Museum of Visual Arts). This is a joint project with Yto Aranda and Roberto Larraguibel, which is financed by the Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (National Fund for Culture and the Arts).
(www.artoficio.com).