The talk will be in Spanish and English. Tea, coffee, and light refreshments will be provided.
Mario Santamaría (Burgos, 1985) is a visual artist who works with a wide range of media, frequently using photography, video, performance, websites, and online interventions.
In recent years Santamaría's work seeks to embody protocols and processes of information distribution, performing actions such as physically traveling to his website by repeating the path of data; going for beers around the city as a Google algorithm, or creating a tour operator based on the infrastructure of the Internet.
Santamaría lives and works in Barcelona and he is a professor at BAU College of Arts & Design and at ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering and has been a visiting professor at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), Universität Bremen (Germany), and ISIA Urbino (Italy).
His work has been exhibited in institutions such as MACBA and Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona), ZKM (Karlsruhe), WKV (Stuttgart), Edith-Russ-Haus (Oldenburg), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), CENART (Mexico), Or Gallery and C/O (Berlin), Arebyte (London), Aksioma (Ljubljana), The New School (NY), Les Rencontres d'Arles (Arles) and in the Biennials of Thessaloniki, Havana and Lyon.