Creative Coding Barcelona with Mario Santamaría presents "Trained Shadows"

Lecture by Mario Santamaría on his artistic processes and practice. For years, his work has focused on embodying protocols and processes of information distribution, performing actions such as physically travelling to his website by repeating the path of data; leaving an avatar falling for eternity in the sky of a Metaverse; going for drinks around the city as a Google algorithm; or creating a tour operator based on the infrastructure of the Internet.

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Mario Santamaría (Burgos, 1985) holds a degree in Fine Arts and an MA in Visual Arts and Multimedia from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He lives and works in Barcelona. His artistic practice examines the phenomenon of the contemporary observer, paying attention both to representational and symbolic practices and to the technical apparatuses of vision and mediation. His work interrogates the relationships between the production of subjectivity and the ways the observer’s body is traversed by languages and technologies in contemporary society. Using tactics such as appropriation, remaking, and montage, his projects intervene across territories including conflict, memory, virtuality, and surveillance.

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Creative Coding Barcelona is a community that explores the creative possibilities of programming. Its mission is to share knowledge and inspiration about computational art while encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration.

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The Generative Art Museum (TGAM) is a non-profit organization based in Barcelona dedicated to promote generative art and creative coding as a unique form of artistic expression.

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