Albert Alcoz is a filmmaker, teacher and film curator of experimental film and artists’ video. PhD in Media Arts from Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona where he teaches cinema and video. He writes about avant-garde cinema, documentary film and video art for various print media as well as his website Visionary Film created in 2006. Since 2005 he has made several works in film and videographic formats, some of which are distributed by HAMACA or included at the Xcèntric Archive. He has been part of audiovisual platforms like Angular –a publisher of DVDs of international experimental film–, Venusplutón!, Blogs&Docs, Found Footage Magazine and curated the screenings series Amalgama, Cinema Anèmic and CRANC. He has written the books Resonancias fílmicas. El sonido en el cine estructural (1960-1981) (Shangrila, 2017) and Radicales libres. 50 películas esenciales del cine experimental (UOC, 2019).

Last update: July 17th, 2019

Cristina Cámara is an art historian and curator. Since 2006, she is responsible for the Film and Video Collection at the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid). She has been part of the curatorial team of exhibitions organized by the Museum such as Territories and Fictions. Thinking a New Way of the World (2016-2017) and Minimal Resistance. Between Late Modernism and Globalization: Artistic Practices during the 80s and 90s (2013-2014). Her research focuses on the moving image, the history behind, collecting and exhibition issues. Her most recent curatorial projects have been Val del Omar. The Mechanical Mysticism of Cinema (Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2019) and Rosa Barba. Drawn by the Pulse (Tabakalera, Donostia, 2018). She lives and works in Madrid, Spain.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Founding co-director of LOOP and Screen Projects. Director of Senda Gallery and Espai2Nou2 Gallery. He has been member of selection committees for different art fairs, such as New Art, ARCO Madrid, PULSE Miami, PULSE New York, Art Brussels, ArtForum Berlin, among others. Since 2007, he is a member of the Culture Council of Barcelona City Council. He has a degree in Geography and History from the University of Barcelona.

Last update: May 5th, 2015

Practicing lawyer in Barcelona since 1980. Enric Enrich represents Spanish and foreign clients involved in the different sectors of the creative industries: film and television, music, visual arts, publishing, sports and media, dealing with matters related to negotiation and drafting of contracts and conflict resolution. He currently works in his own firm Enrich Advocats and focuses on general business practice and entertainment law, specialized in private international law, copyright and entertainment as well as personal image rights, on which matters he lectures, writes and practices as a lawyer.

Last update: May 5th, 2015

Artist.

Last update: May 29th, 2017

Director of MACBA Foundation, a private not for profit organisation with the specific mission to put together the MACBA Collection of MACBA. Degree in Business Administration, MBA (ESADE, Barcelona) and MA in Museum Management (UPF, Barcelona). After working 15 years as Head of Communication and Marketing in both multinational companies and public institutions, Cristina decided to focus on her passion: contemporary art. In 2013 she joined the MACBA Foundation as Communication and Fundraising Manager, and in 2016 she was appointed Director. During this time, the Foundation has seen a significant increasing in the number of private collaborators, multiplied the sponsorship initiatives and intensified its work of dissemination and promotion of the Collection.

Last update: November 14th, 2018

Graduated in Fine Arts, her professional career in the creation of the company YProducciones on the elaboration of tascas of production, management, research and training in culture. It has been an initiative of the initiators of the Hamaca distribution, and has been the director since 2009. During these years it promotes projects like the Cicle de Video a la Gran Pantalla, where introduced the video in the sales of cinema, or the first anthology of video in the Spanish context (Apology /Anthology). She has been invited as speaker to seminars on video distribution at institutions such as MNCARS, MACBA, the Sorbonne in Paris and the Berlin Arsenal.

Last update: May 23th, 2017

In the last three decades, he has participated in the creation of magazines, art and thought spaces, as well as directing curatorial projects. It works in different media and makes a free use of the languages. His work is articulated through interrogating and questioning as a mechanism of debate and thought.

Summary of exhibitions: Museum of Art, Girona; Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona; Espai d’Arts Roca Umbert, Granollers; Abelló Museum, Mollet del Vallès; Roser, Lleida; Art Center La Vicaría de Sant Pere de Vilamajor Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of BBAA, Barcelona; ACVIC, Vic; 72 Gallery, USA; Ax Actuel, Toulouse; Studio oggetto, Italy; G. Artual, G. Balaguer, H2O, Eude, G.A.Barnola, G.44 of Barcelona has participated in “25hrs Art Foundation International Video Festival”, Barcelona and London; “Le Sur Attaque”, Sette, France; “International Biennial of Cannes”; “Winter Festival of Sarajevo” .Loop 2014 / 15..Arco de Madrid, Basle Art Basel.

He is the author of two permanent public facilities in Barcelona: “Metamemòria” and “Bon Viatge”.

Last update: 24th, 2017

Txuspo Poyo uses montage and pre technological devices such as pixel vision, celluloids or newspapers to build tales with crossed imagery. His plots bring together unfinished leftovers from the past and fragments of a collective and individual culture, captured from the history of art, films, architecture and science fiction. These projects are re­reading forms and models of production and representation. Poyo received his B.F.A in the Basque Country University, Bilbao and has been awarded numerous grants and awards. He has held solo shows in venues such as the Artium Museum, Vitoria; Art Center La Panera, Lleida; Contemporary Art and Design Museum, Costa Rica; La sala Montcada de la Caixa, Barcelona; and BizBak, Bilbao. He has been featured in group shows at the Jeu de Paume, Paris; CAAC Museum, Sevilla; Marco Museum, Vigo; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid; Artist Space, New York; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino and the Image Biennale, Paris. In 2001 he received a production grant from the Fundación Botín and in 2015 the Fundación BBVA video production grant.

Last update: May 24th, 2017

Juliana was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1989. While studying for her bachelors in Psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana she became interested in the Freudian theory of personality and psychoanalysis. After her studies, she worked as a therapist where she used art therapy with her patients under the supervision of Luis Fernando Orduz, the president of the Latin American Psychoanalytic Federation. Wanting to explore more of the world, Juliana moved to the Netherlands in 2015 where she completed her premaster in organization studies at Tilburg University. Once finishing her premaster, she moved to Maastricht to continue her education by getting her Masters in Work and Organizational Psychology. As well as psychology, she also has a passion for the arts, which is the reason for joining Video Power, a Dutch non-profit organization, which focuses on the video art market.

Last update: May 23th, 2017