REVIEWS BY STUDENTS: Burbano

Andrés Burbano: Opening Source
Translated by: Aline Hernández
(Héctor Archundia Ibarra, Julieta Guzmán Gómez Aguado and Estefanía Piñón Escudero)

Andrés Burbano (1973) is a Colombian artist who´s practice focuses on digital-art. With an MA in Interactive Media Creation from MECAD, Spain, 2004, he has participated in residencies such as the artist-in-residence program at the Basic Research Institute at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany in 2005. Between 2007 and 2012, he was a PhD candidate of Media Arts and Technology at the University of California Santa Barbara. Burbano initially started as a documentalist, doing explorations related to video, sound-art and telecommunications and he was also a pioneer in the technology development of Stereoscopic Video Art and in internet-based art, which he has been using as a platform since 1996. He has also been crucial in his country for electronic art shows for emerging artists. He is now working and producing between California and Bogotá.

Open(ing) Source starts as a collaborative project where the artists gathered genetic/migratory information from three participants, information that was initially collected from The National Geographic Society from a project dedicated to tracing the human history of our ancestors and migration through the planet. The results where then sent via travelling-boxes around the world to some of the artists friends for them to interpret and contribute creatively to the project (songs, drawings, photography) regarding some of the information found in the boxes.

Burbano is focused in exploring the relationship between art, science and technology from different perspectives: as a researcher, an individual artist or through collaborating work with other artists, designers and engineers. His broad range work, emphasizes the importance and pervasiveness of his interdisciplinary and collaborative work in the digital art field.

Authors like José Luis Vaca signal that “within the Colombian artistic context artists like Andrés Burbano, approach their practice and Net.Art as a need for bonds, but also as the tuning of interpretation, study and interaction among agents[1]

Finally, the importance of this project lies in its collaborative basis, in the genetic research entailed with art and in the future creation of an internet database that will enable the genetic/migratory information.



[1] Vaca, Jose Luis, Arte Politica Net.Art Activismo

3 comentarios:

smileypants dijo...

I loved the box project..what an interesting and material way to explore genetics and information. Thanks!

Unknown dijo...

Interesting idea to have this project as a collaborative effort on the beginning phase, and I am curious to see how you will synthesize the responses to create work that you can call your own.--May Chau, Art Education Master's in Ed, Visual Arts

S. Khan Arshad dijo...

It is magnificent that Andres Burbano belongs to Colombia, who is contributing and providing positive perception to his country through his creativity and innovation in Stereoscopic Video Art. It is people like Andres who show through their amazing actions that every country in the world have people like him who are out there to make a constructive and beneficial addition to this world.