Last update: May 29th, 2017

Erick Beltrán studied at the National School of Plastic Arts, UNAM. Mexico. He has exhibited individually in Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mex (2014); Gallery Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo (2013), Centre d’Art Comtemporain Synagogue du Delme, Metz, France.. (2012); Troppen Museum, Amsterdam, NL.(2011); Galería Labor, Mex. (2011); Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Esp. (2011); Form&Content, London, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona.(2010)Presentaciones en Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien, Aut.(2013), Galería Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Col. (2013).

He recently participated in the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA; Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, Germany; La Capella, Barcelona, Spain; Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands; MUSAC, León, Spain; Experimental Museum El Eco, Mexico; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA; Valparaiso Cultural Park, Valparaiso, Chile.

Last update: May 22th, 2017

Eugeni Bonet works with film, video and digital media. Since the 1970s, he has been moving across research and creative practice, spanning both audiovisual art and the moving image.

He curated several exhibitions and programmes, such as: Desmontaje: film, vídeo/apropiación, reciclaje (1993), Señales de vídeo: aspectos de la videocreación española de los últimos años (1995-1997), El cine calculado (1999-2001), Movimiento aparente: la invitación al viaje inmóvil en las tecnologías ubicuas del tiempo, la imagen y la pantalla (2000), Comer o no Comer, o las relaciones del arte con la comida en el siglo XX (2002, with Darío Corbeira y Carlos Jiménez), Properament en aquesta pantalla: el cinema lletrista, entre la discrepància i la sublevació (2005, with Eduard Escoffet), Gustavo Romano. Sabotaje en la máquina abstracta (2008), Desbordamiento de Val del Omar (2010-2011) and De trencar i estripar (2016). He co-authored two reference books on video art and film: En torno al vídeo (Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1980), together with Joaquim Dolls, Antoni Mercader and Antoni Muntadas; and Práctica fílmica y vanguardia artística en España, 1925-1981/The Avant-Garde Film in Spain (1983), together with Manuel Palacio. Many of his texts and essays were compiled in Escritos de vista y oído (2014). Beginning in the 1970s, he has created film sculptures, multiple channel projections, as well as feature films, like Tira tu reloj al agua (2003-2004) and eGolem (2007- ongoing), also conceived for an online version. He also works with shorter formats and multi-screen devices and often experiments with found footage and recycled images.

In 2014, the MACBA (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona) dedicated him a large exhibition titled El ojo escucha. Eugeni Bonet: pantallas, proyecciones, escritos, which testified to his activity as an artist, curator and writer.

Professor of the Department of Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona. She teaches the Degree in Audiovisual Communication, which has been Director of Studies (2007-2011), in subjects such as “Intertextuality and Audiovisual”, “Literature and Cinema”, “verbal and nonverbal languages ​​in Audiovisual Communication”, ” speaking and Writing “and” Audiovisual Projects. ”
Since 1991 routinely VIDEO TEAM Josep M. Jordana, who organizes since 2000 cycle / FLUX video festival of author Barcelona, since 2014, the performing arts festival visual influence.

Since 2012 she has directed the online videographic archive SUMMA. Participation in film projects by production tasks, production assistant, camera operator and management.

Her main research is experimental poetry. Program activities, teaches and publishes articles and audiovisual material on the subject. She is a researcher of the research group POCIÓ poetry and education of the UB, which is dedicated to bringing poetry to education, especially contemporary poetry in all its aspects. She has performed, among other things, the book Learning with Joan Brossa and websites The hard-and-salts Rubbish and enjoy the poetry and experimental poetry Catalan (1959-2004).

Last update: May 22th, 2017

Vanina Hofman is a Lecturer at the History and Art History Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Catalonia) where she also directs the Aula de Cine i Arts Audiovisuals. She  develops her work in a hybrid territory between academic research and cultural production. Her field of interest lies in the intersections among Art, Science, Technology & Society. She is particularly interested in the processes involved in the construction of memory in digital culture, the archiving of media arts, the unconventional arts histories and the digital materialities. She has recently published the book “Divergent Practices of Media Arts Preservation. Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Culture” based on previous fieldwork conducted in Argentina. She is part of the interdisciplinary Research Group MIRMED-GIAC (URV, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica).

He studied related image (photography, film, video and 3D), sound and music, including the Masters in Audiovisual Creation and Technology from the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, ​​IUA (1995-1997). He also has a degree in Catalan Philology from the University of Barcelona (1980-85).

Since 1986 he has worked as a producer of independent video and film. He has made hundreds of productions in the fields of video art, fiction, documentary and the video installation.

He has participated in audiovisual shows Raeo, Lydia Lunch, A cunt on Fmol and Convolution, among others. He has carried out “videoaccions,” scanner-actions and actions as a VJ. He has also produced original music for some of his videos.

In the field of teaching he has been a professor of camera and editing from 1990 to 2008 at the IDEP School of Cinema-TV-Video & New Media in Barcelona.

He also runs commissioned projects and works as a director, cameraman and freelance editor, artist, musician, poet and video creator. He leads the study of audiovisual production NKNS.
Co-founder of the team videographic REGULAR VIDEO TEAM since 1991, along with Lis Costa, who organizes since 2000 cycle / FLUX video festival of author Barcelona from the 2014 festival ‘visual arts influence.

Since 2012 and directs the videographic archive online SUMMA.

Last update: May 22th, 2017

She coordinates VIDEOCLOOP, a new online video library dedicated to the exhibition of films and videos by contemporary artists, which have been part of LOOP Fair since 2003.

Before, she has worked at MACBA Foundation in different tasks related to the MACBA’s collection.  She collaborated in different video creations projects as a producer.

Julia studied Humanities at the University Pompeu Fabra and Latin-American Studies at UNAM, Mexico  DF.

Last update: May 23th, 2017

Antoni Mercader is an art historian and curator, specialising in new media and audiovisual art. He holds a PhD in Audiovisual Communication from the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (2000) and a BA in History of Art and Philosophy (1976). He was Senior Lecturer in Audiovisual Communication at the University of Barcelona (2001 – 2011), and Director and Coordinator of the European projects Vivid [Radical] Memory, Cultura 2000 Programme (2006 – 2007) and GAMA, e-content plus Programme (2007 – 2009). He was advisor and activity coordinator for the Mediateca CaixaForum, Barcelona (1995 – 2007) and part of the editorial department of the Spanish Magazine ‘Telos’ (1985 – 2005). Being an audiovisual and multimedia art producer, he was the founding director of Videografia (1982 – 2002). Together with Eugeni Bonet, Joaquim Dols and Antoni Muntadas he co-authored En torno al vídeo (Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1980), the first Spanish publication dedicated to video art. He was a member of the artivist Grup de Treball (1973 – 1976) and participated to the Paris and Venice Biennale in 1975 and 1976, respectively. His work is part of the collection of the MACBA (Barcelona) and the MNCARS (Madrid).

Last update: November 30th, 2016

Diana Padrón is a researcher, critic and independent curator. She holds a B.A. degree in Art History from the University of La Laguna, M.A. in Advanced Studies in Art History from the University of Barcelona and a Ph.D. from the same university in Society and Culture: History, Anthropology, Arts, Heritage and Cultural Management. She has been a visiting post-doc researcher at the Università di Padova, Université de Lille and Goldsmiths College – University of London. She collaborates with several art, thought and politics journals, and has been co-editor with Martí Peran of the journal REG|AC (Scientific Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art of the Universitat de Barcelona). As an independent curator she has organised exhibitions for the San Martín Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Museo Picasso de Barcelona, Loop Barcelona Festival, 13th Havana Biennial, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporànea, Centro de Arte La Regenta and Casal Solleric. She is a member of the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo (IAC) and the Associació Catalana de la Crítica d’Art (ACCA).

Last update 15th November 2021

Lives and works in Barcelona, Catalonia. An interactive communication artist and researcher, Pares’ work is characterized by the poetic and critical experimentation with digital technologies, and has been presented and exhibited in festivals, art centers and museums in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Parés holds a PhD in Audiovisual Communication and a degree in Fine Arts. He is a Professor and Researcher in the Communication Department at the Pompeu Fabra University, and his research projects have been published by the British Computer Society, Academic Press, FECYT, Macba, and MIT Press, amongst others. He has launched pioneer platforms in electronic art, such as, for example, “Galeria Virtual” (1993-2000), dedicated to the development of virtual reality as an art form; ‘Macba En Línea’ (1995-1997), a pioneer platform for net.art; and M.A.L. (2011-2013), an art lab with smartphones. From 2010 to 2015 he was co-director of the Master’s in Digital Arts, UPF. His commitment to an inter-discplinary culture (which he defends for its anti-dogmatic potential and for its civilizing power), has led him to explore the intersections between art, science, technology and society.

Last update: May 10th, 2017

Berta Sichel is a contemporary art curator. Her career began in New York from where she elaborated curatorial projects for the Biennials of Sao Paulo and Venice, among many others, and was Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the New School for Social Research. In 2000 she came to Spain to lead the audiovisual department of the Reina Sofia, a position she held until 2011.

Since then, she has organized numerous projects internationally: she served as artistic director of the Biennial of Cartagena de Indias, in Colombia. She established Bureau Phi Art, a cultural agency for the production and organization of curatorial and publishing proposals. Her most recent project was a show by Argentine artist Leandro Katz at Tabacalera in Madrid, which opened last February. The cosmopolitan experience of Bureau Phi promotes collaboration and exchange of art and ideas across boundaries. She currently lives and works in Madrid and New York.

Last update: April 20th, 2017