[aha] ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART features ANDRÉS BURBANO

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The ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART features ANDRÉS BURBANO: NEW FEATURE AND
ARTIST INTERVIEW

Andres Burbano is a researcher, curator and interdisciplinary artist
whose work ranges from documentary video (in both science and art), to
sound installation and telecommunication art. Burbano is currently
Associate Professor of the Department of Design at the Universidad de
los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. The wide spectrum of his research
projects includes: media archaeology of Latin America, 3D-modelling of
Photogrammetry technology and data-translation into digital media.
Burbano was the Chair of SIGGRAPH 2018 Art Gallery and the Chair of
ISEA2017 Academic. He held the keynote speech at ZKM’s “Potential Spaces”
Conference in 2017. He has taught as lecturer in Europe, USA and Canada,
where he also established the ethnographic online archive with the local
indigenous communities. For over a decade now, Burbano has developed
technological approaches to investigate the geographic change of nature
landscapes.

ARTWORKS & RESEARCH
Focusing on the combined mechanics and opportunities of cinematic
narratives, human language and information data, Andres Burbano’s
arts-based research illustrates how media technology shapes the way we
communicate with different cultures and societies today. In his
collaborative research projects, Burbano investigates the
socio-technological histories of landscapes and cultural sites. As one
research outcome, Burbano translates the data and knowledge gained from
his fieldtrips into media art installations. In „The New Dunites“
(2009), the research team investigated the desert landscape at
California‘s Central Coast for archaeological traces of film settings
from the early Twentieth Century. Once a shooting location for „The Ten
Commandments“ (1923), these modern geographical sites are now, due to
sand drift, only detectable through traces and signals by combining
methods and tools from geophysics, computational media, and art
practice.
In „Imaging Macondo“ (2015), Burbano and his partners George LeGrady
and Angus Forbes created an animated, interactive visual installation to
recreate the fictional town, or „literary village“, Macondo as
envisioned in Gael Garcia Marquez‘ writings. Based on eight key concepts
from the novels, viewers attached their own photographies to one of the
eight key concepts developed, bridging private with literary heritage.
By linking memory, literature, keywords and images in this panoramic
installation, Burbano created an imaginary space of personal and social
identities.

:: EXPLORE :: Andrès‘ ADA Profile
https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/artists/general/artist/burbano.html


:: READ :: Artist Interview with Andrés
https://www.digitalartarchive.at/index.php?id=182     

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