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