Higo Mental (Ricardo Pérez-Hita and Marta Sesé) is a collective that tries to create stories counterhegemonics crossed by feminisms from the audiovisual material that populates the internet archive. Active since 2014, they have held sessions in independent and institutional spaces such as FOC, CA2M, Sala d’Art Jove, Can Felipa, HOHO hairdresser, Homesession, Solar de la Puri or Storm and Drunk among many others.

Higo Mental (Ricardo Pérez-Hita and Marta Sesé) is a collective that tries to create stories counterhegemonics crossed by feminisms from the audiovisual material that populates the internet archive. Active since 2014, they have held sessions in independent and institutional spaces such as FOC, CA2M, Sala d’Art Jove, Can Felipa, HOHO hairdresser, Homesession, Solar de la Puri or Storm and Drunk among many others.

Artist

Mario Santamaría works across a wide range of media, frequently using photography, video, performance, websites and online interventions. In recent years his work focuses on tactics to embody distribution protocols, performing actions such as physically travelling to his website by repeating the data path; going for beers around the city as a Google algorithm or founding a tour operator based on the Internet physical infrastructure. His work has been shown among others in: ZKM Karlsruhe, WKV Stuttgart, MACBA Barcelona, CENART Mexico, Arebyte London, Les Rencontres d’Arles and C/O Berlin.

Last updated: 11th November, 2022

Freelance writer and curator. She writes regularly for A*Desk, La Maleta de Portbou, Bonart, Hänsel i Gretel, Núvol-Digital de Cultura, Politica & Prosa or Diario Levante. Recently, she has edited the book “Galeries d’art a Catalunya” and the catalogue of the exhibition “Tàpies / Alcaraz / Rubert” at the Kunst Lager Haas in Berlin. Some of her exhibitions as curator have been seen at àngels barcelona (Enésima Intempestiva), Arte Aurora (El ple and Seastanding), Àcid Sulfúric (€uropolis), Cera 13 (Moon and dust) or at FASE. Espacio de creación y pensamiento. Between 2018 and 2020, she coordinated the LOOP Discover Award, held within the framework of the LOOP Barcelona video art festival and fair. She has a Master in Art History and since 2011 she has been involved in teaching through conferences, talks and courses aimed at both children and adults. Among them, New economies for new communities. Can the rules of the game be changed? in the framework of the Mobile Week Congress; ¡Ay! Amor at the MACBA; David Hockney: a painter and a book at Galeria SENDA; A Century of Artistic Revolution, 1863-1964 and Painting in Europe, from Botticelli to Monet at Casa Elizalde (Barcelona); Two Italian Masterpieces at Can Palauet (Mataró).

Last update 22nd October 2020

Daniel Moreno Roldán is an artist and musician. As of late, his work has focused on the notions of obsolescence, nostalgia and transience in digital environments, as well as archive and conservation work on the Internet. His work has been displayed at Radio Nostalgia Profunda (Bombon Projects, Barcelona), Instadeath (La Casa Encendida, Madrid), Myspace Dragon Hoard (Lost WorldWW Muisc) (BSC, Barcelona), Esdevenir immortal i després morir (La Capella, Barcelona), Granota Polly (Bombon Projects, Barcelona), Goodbye, My Sunny Child (SWAB, Barcelona), Assumpte: una forta intuïció (MNAC, Barcelona), You are too alert to sleep any longer (The Roommates, London), Some and Others (Spinnerei, Leipzig), Ella: allà i després (Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona) and Pica i Fuig! (Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona), among others. He has been awarded the 2017 Embarrat Prize (Tàrrega) as well as scholarships from BCN Producció (Barcelona), /UNZIP (El Prat de Llobregat), Can Felipa (Barcelona), Sant Andreu Contemporani (Barcelona) and Sala d’Art Jove (Barcelona). He has also been a resident artist at Hangar (Barcelona), Fabra i Coats (Barcelona), Can Serrat (El Bruc) and NauEstruch (Sabadell). He is a member and co-founder of the Club de Videojocs, a group of people interested in videogames beyond their nature as mere entertainment, which gathers twice a month at Hangar. He is a member of the SOSUN.dance electronic music project, for which he composes songs using computers and obsolete gaming consoles. Moreover, he works as a music producer and sound designer.

Last update 5th November 2021