CURATED BY EDUARDO NAVAS

May 25, 2007 12:00 pm to June 9, 2007
Telic Arts Exchange
975 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, California 90012
http://www.telic.info

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ARTISTS
Jorge Castro (Cordoba, AR)
Arcangel Constantini (Mexico City, MX)
Timo Daum, (Berlin, DE)
Corey Eiseman (Miami, Florida, US)
Yann Le Guennec (Lorient, FR)
Guillermo López, (Madrid, ES)
Antonio Mendoza (Los Angeles, Ca, US)
Brian Mackern (Montevideo, UY)
Julia Masvernat (Buenos Aires, AR)
Raúl Marco Padilla (Madrid, ES)
Gustavo Romano (Buenos Aires, AR)
Katherine Sweetman (Los Angeles, Ca, US)

ARTISTS BIOGRAPHIES

Jorge Castro
Castro aka Fisternni Born in Córdoba, Argentina in 1967.
One of the Pioneers in Electronics from Argentina , Master in Digital Arts / Programmer / Audio-Media Real Time.
Since 1990 he has been working in Video-Audio participating in important National and International Festivals and Biennials.
His work has been featured in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Spain, Germany and many other Countries. He is working in Multimedia, Sound and Visuals Art participating in several exhibitions and colaborations with Cornucopia, Zbigniew Karkowski , Chuck Bettis, Richard Chartier, Lex Dinamo,Pablo Reche, Jorge Haro,Coeval and many others.
Currently he is director of the media Lab University Blas Pascal Currently he is living and working in the mountains Carlos Paz, Argentina.
http://www.manipulatto.com

Arcángel Constantini
Constantini was born and lives in Mexico City. He produces work of marked ludic-experimental nature, strongly influenced by the fortuitous, chaotic processes of the city as reflected in the systematic use of error aesthetics. His work and artistic practice explore the dynamics of visual and sound works, low-tech installations, propaganda, action, visual/sound performance and technological hacking. Constantini is independent curator of Cyberlounge, Museo Rufino Tamayo and has received various awards, among them the Prize for Best Multimedia Work at Vidarte, Video and Electronic Arts Festival, CENART (Mexico City, 1999); and the Bronze Prize for his project 123456789px.htm, MCMOGATK, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo and Art on the Net, 1999. In 2005 he was part of Sistema Nacional de Creadores fonca grant and in 2002 he receive the Rockefeller Macarthur grant for new media production. Constantini is director of www.un-cuarto.org http://www.un-cuarto.org/ an independent electronic art exhibition space , he has participated with his work in exhibitions festivals in countries as Japan ,Peru , Germany, Holland, Italy , Canada , unite kingdom ,Uruguay , Brazil , Australia, spain ,corea , Puerto Rico, among others.
http://www.arc-data.net/
http://www.unosunosyunosceros.com/
http://www.bakteria.org

Corey Eiseman
Eiseman was born in Miami, Florida. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in drawing from the University of Central Florida in 1998. Graduated Summa Cum Laude. His father died in January of 2001. The towers fall in September of the same year. These two events are like two hands rattling the cage that his mind was in.
http://infiniteorange.com/
http://toegristle.com/
http://kollabor8.org/

FUSS! is an artist collective with contributors:

Raúl Marco Padilla
Padilla is a musician, programmer, designer. Since 2000 he has been active as author, lecturer and coordinator of multimedia courses at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, in Design and programming of multimedia applications. Padilla is responsible for online education in multimedia at Centro Nacional de Información y Comunicación Educativa, Aula Mentor, in Audio / programming / web design / graphics. He has collaborated with E-SITE magazine, BELIO magazine, BLANK magazine , URU online magazine
http://www.audio2web.com
http:// www.fuss.cc

Timo Daum
Daum is a programmer, designer and theorist, who worked as a Scientist in research, 1995- 1997. He collaborates as author and art director with the theory and art journal “karoshi,” was trained as online designer in 1998, and worked as webdesigner at Complot Diseño Gráfico in Madrid 1999-2000. Since 2001, Daum is a freelancer in Berlin for web and multimedia applications, and programming lecturer for Multimedia at an Berlin Art School (BTK). Daum organizes Liquid Video – festival for real time audiovisual culture in Berlin, and lectures at Multimedia at Friends of Design - Acedemy of Digital Design, Cape Town.
http://www.2pir.org

Guillermo López (Madrid, ES),
Lopes is a graphic designer, who works at LateralIdeas. Graphic design. www.lateralideas.com, collaborated in Filmoteca Fnac (DVD Collection) 2005
“Almería en Corto participated in ”Internacional Shortfilms Festival.” He was Art Director 2003-04-05. He has collaborated with “Belio”; “E-site”; “Blank” and “URU” 2003 (Art and design magazines), “El Primero” (Testimonial documentary). 2003 "Animadrid,” and has participated in International Shortfilms Festival of animated image. López Art Director for 2002-03-04 for "Altaclassics" Main title to cinema 2001, Film Interactive, and Creative Director, 2002-05 (www.filminteractive.es) De Revés as well as Art Director 2000-01, Audio2web.com He worked on a personal project (Auditive elements) 2000-05.
http://www.lateralideas.com
http://www.fuss.cc

Yann Le Guennec
Le Guennec is an artist, technician and numerical designer, holding a teaching position at the School of Atlantic Nantes Design; he is cofounder of Numerical Actions Networks (ARN). In 1996, Le Guennec discovered the Internet which appeared to him a space that responded to installations he carried out in situ then; which took the form of networks of objects laid out on the ground. His work is currently articulated around concepts of systemic approach, art theory, and collective intelligence.
http://www.laboratoire-aleatoire.com/lab/YannLeGuennec

Brian Mackern
Director/editor of <artef@ctos virtuales>, one of the first latinamerican virtual spaces devoted to the investigation, development and implementation of web/netart projects [1996].

Developer/designer of many CD and net art projects. Composer of autogenerative/reactive visual-sound structures and environments. His works, mainly concerned in processes & structures, explore interface-design, randomness, estocastics, soundtoy creations, generative/reactive/interactive image_sound objects, real time video-data animations, netart and soundart. Since 2000 he has also been developing the [netart_latino database], a database of latinamerican netartists, among many other colaborative web projects. Mackern writes about browser-art, soundtoys, netart, software-art, and participates in conferences and workshops focused in these topics. He has also composed music for theatre pieces, video/movies, and designed sound environments for performances.

Since 1999 he has been working as a Video Jockey in many diverse venues. Has done live projections and real time visual designs/animations within the electronic collective INNOVA, also with musicians/Djs Fernando Lagreca, Federico Deutsch, Dj Recycle (Uruguay), Simbad Segui, Tripnik, Jorge Haro, Dj Palacios, Dj Andrés Oddone (Argentina), Chateau Flight (France), DJ ESP-Woody McBride (USA), rock groups Reverb, Elixir, Cuarteto de Nos (concierto 21 años) and Bajofondo Tangoclub, among others.

His last works have been presented during the 'netart.org.uy / 2004-2005 eurolatino tour', tour that included Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico, España, Italia, Korea.
http://netart.org.uy

Julia Masvernat
Masvernat was born and lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a graphic designer who studied painting with Tulio de Sabastizábal. In 1997-1999 she was part of a design team for the newspaper Clarín Digital, working as an interactive system and web designer. In 2000 Masvernat worked at MECAD (Media Centre d'Art i disseny), Sbadell, Barceelona. Currently she is active as a graphic and media designer, while developing personal projects for the fine arts and new media. She's been part of exhibitions at Gara (1998), MNBA (1999 y 2000), Centro Cultural R. Rojas (2002), Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires (2004 y 2005), Fundación Proa (2005). Since 2003 she is a professor at the University Mainodes for Digital Production. During 2001-05 she participated in the collective project "terraza" (http://www.terrazared.com.ar), an interdisciplinary space for artists. Masvernat also participated in the project Trama www.proyectotrama.org and in 2006 "Plataforma Soundtoys" which took place in Montevideo in 2006.
http://34s56w.org/soundtoys2006/julia.htm
http://www.cceba.org.ar/cvirtual/tpl/
muestra-03/luciernaga.htm

Antonio Mendoza
Mendoza has exhibited digital work and performed in galleries, festivals and museums in the England, Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Germany, Holland, Japan, Thailand, Italy and the United States. His web sites, www.subculture.com, www.mayhem.net, www.imagepirate.com and www.mrtamale.com have logged over one million visitors a year for the past ten years. He has also written two true-crime books and on his days off, he plays music with the digital collective, Mr. Tamale.

Gustavo Romano
Romano is an artist who works in a variety of media including video, installations, actions, web projects. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, the Ruth Benzacar gallery, the ICI of Buenos Aires, the Cultural Center of Spain, Cordoba and Montevideo, the Recoleta Cultural Center, among others. His works has been exhibited also in the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Casa de América and Telefonica Foundation, Madrid; MARCO, Vigo; Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen Gallery, Bonn, Suttgart, Berlin; Massachusets College of Arts, Boston; Cervantes Institut, Viena; MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain; and included in the VII Havana Biennial, the I Singapore Biennale, the Videonale 11, Bonn, Transmediale.03, Berlin, Interferences, Belfort, the Iberoamerican I Biennial of Lima, Peru, the II Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil, the I Biennal of the End of the World, Ushuaia, Argentina.

He is one of the directors of the website Fin del Mundo. He coordinates the Medialab of the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires. He has received the Vida 7.0 Incentive for investigation, Fundación Telefónica de España; the prize of the Argentine Art Critics Asociation, among others.
In 2006 he won the Guggenheim Fellowship.
http://www.gustavoromano.com.ar
http://www.findelmundo.com.ar

Katherine Sweetman
Sweetman's background centers mainly on film studies, video, and
experimental communications projects. Her current YouTube investigations involve the issue of bringing "the private" (individual YouTube videos) into "the public" (the YouTube forum). Katherine is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of California, San Diego.
http://katherinesweetman.com/