Tania Reza (IN COLLAB. W/ Mauro Herrera Machuca)

Tania Reza

She is a visual and stage artist who creates from the hybrid exploration of space, movement, and medium that technology offers. She thoroughly explores the production of time-based media, live coding, and the role of movement in the construction of images and their sequences through experimentation.

She has a BA in Contemporary Dance given by Universidad de las Artes, Aguascalientes. She holds a postgraduate degree in Art and Technological Mediation from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She got her master in Contemporary Art at Universidad de las Artes, Aguascalientes. She was awarded the Premio Nacional de Arte Joven (Young Art National Prize) in 2019, for a video of her series “Personas Haciendo Cosas” (People Doing Stuff). She received a grant from FONCA Young Creators in two occasions, in 2018 and 2021, in the category New Technologies. She won the XVII National Award for Experimental Video. Currently, her video and sculpture artwork called Harpías/ άρπυιες is on exhibition at the ZAZ10 Gallery (New York), and, simultaneously at La Nap (CDMX), 2023.

Mauro Herrera Machuca

Engineer in electronics and computing from the Copenhagen Engineering College and Master in Music with a specialty in Musical Technology from the postgraduate degree in Music at the UNAM. Full-time professor at the Technological Institute of Higher Studies of Monterrey, Santa Fe campus.

He was a member of the Radiador collective (2008), he has participated in the sound creation of several theater and dance works, as well as in the integration of software, electronics and visuals for the work of other artists, he makes sound sculpture, sound art, generative graphics and interactive design.

ARTWORK

Estudio sobre la espiral: mutación y permanencia  (Study on the spiral: mutation and permanence)
Performance

This artwork is a performative and audiovisual action that investigates the spiral of current dancing, especially the spins as a rebellious protest against the rigidity of dance practices and their conservative norms. This is thanks to the external technological resources that work as an extension of the human movement and as a visual element. With them, a closed system of ESP-32 cameras is set up, which generates videos and audio in real time through live coding.

This artpiece consists of a metallic structure shaped like a spiral, which works as a prosthetic body. There is a dancer or performer in the center of this sculpture, and the closed circuit is on top of the spiral tube. The sculpture spins while the dancer is barely moving, and thanks to a patch, we can see the projection of a simulation of the body spinning in an “artificial” way.

This artwork was given a grant by FONCA New Technologies in 2022. However, due to financial national cuts in culture, it was never exhibited as a live act, only as a sculptural piece.

Artwork Link
https://vimeo.com/825310958

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