Artists

Patxi Araujo is an artist, teacher and researcher. Professor of the Department of Sculpture and Art and Technology of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UPV/EHU. He works in the territory of new media, where he has built a whole poetics around the body of the technological-digital. In it, he addresses the inevitable relationship between the human and the machine, through installations such as Clarke’s 3rd Law (2008), Ehime Daruma (2013), Turba (2014), The Trained Particles Circus (2018) or Analemma (2023), among others; or through the search for a synthetic visuality of his own; among them Angels, Tribute to Giordano (2015), Terra Nullius (2018) or Report on the Empyrean (2021). His works have been recognized and exhibited in national and international art events. His theoretical research has been published in specialized journals.

Jugatx Astorkia. I work in Bilbao and I am doing my doctoral thesis at the UPV/EHU on the plastic materialization of the image-light through processes of negation. In my own artistic practice I use traces and traces of light to materialize the invisible plastically through the images captured and emitted by technological devices. For this I have carried out different projects thanks to the grant of Plastic Arts of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia (2020), the program of dissemination of artistic projects of Montehermoso Kulturgunea + EHU (2021) or the grant of creation-production of Plastic and Visual Arts of the Basque Government (2022), among others.

Joan Fierro. Artist and multidisciplinary researcher. His main focus of interest lies in the agency of the devices of production, reproduction and organization of images that determine our relationship with them in everyday life. He approaches artistic production from its performative dimension and from multiple languages, among which photography, performance, video and installation stand out. Through his work she investigates the body-other, non-chronological time and virtualization as an ontological movement. Currently, his main research addresses the interactive video installation as a stage and relational device.

Miriam Inza. I am interested in communicative acts and how to interfere them from plastic practices. I am passionate about graphic design and in another life I would have been a printer, but in this one I have chosen to do a doctoral thesis about the intentional error. Graduated in Creation and Design (UPV/EHU, 2017) and Master in Research and Creation in Art (UPV/EHU, 2018), I work mostly with text, word and error. Although my practice is multidisciplinary, my work on paper predominates.

Cristina Miranda de Almeida, holds a European Doctorate in Art (UPV/EHU 2005), and has a degree in Fine Arts (UPV/EHU) and a degree in Architecture (USU, Rio de Janeiro). She is affiliated to the Drawing Department (UPV/EHU). She has had postdoctoral stays at IN3/UOC, Barcelona; McLuhan Program of Culture and Technology, University of Toronto (2007-11) and École Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts, Paris (2010). She is a member of the GizaArtea Research Group and collaborates with Artekom. Her work of artistic creation (installations, performances, photography, drawing) has been exhibited both internationally and locally.

Pilar Soberón. Artist, researcher and teacher in the Dep. Sculpture and Art and Technology of the Faculty of Fine Arts of UPV/EHU, she is Doctor Cum Laude with her doctoral thesis In-fluido: lo fluido como concepto y práctica artística (2016). Member of the Artekom Group. Her work has been exhibited at festivals and art fairs, including: Museo Universidad de Alicante, (2023), Musei Reggia di Portici, Naples, (2022), San Telmo Museoa, Donostia, (2021), Zaha Hadid Stazione Ferroviaria AV Afragola/Napoli, (2022), Wiesbaden Kunstsommer Sculpturenparcours, Wiesbaden, Germany (2014), MIA Fair, Milan (2012), Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia, (2017), Galería Vanguardia, Bilbao (2010, 2018). First Prize of New Artists of Gipuzkoa, (1995) and of the International Art Contest Askatasunarte, Irun, (2019), he has been finalist, among others, of the ABC Photography Prize in ARCO’03, Madrid, (2003), Photíssima Art Prize, Venice, (2015), Biennal d’art Pollensa, Mallorca, (2019), Bienal d’art Tarragona (2019), and Honorable Mention in Encuentro de Arte Contemporáneo EAC, Alicante (2023).

Lourdes de la Villa Liso. She received her PhD in 2011 with the thesis Lo visual como construcción. Development of a pictorial model of image representation, where she develops a history of vision, a theory about the visual function and an experimental model about the visual phenomenon.

He has carried out different artistic creation projects funded by competitive call by entities such as the Basque Government, the Provincial Council of Biscay, the Kunthaus Bregenz, the BBK foundation, the BilbaoArte foundation, the Etxepare Institute, which have resulted in exhibitions at national and international level.

He has published in 2018 in the journal ANIAV the original research article Correlato de la figura del observador. Status of the world in its imaginary foundations, where she studies memory as a domain of access to the world through the sensory channel of sight. His current line of research continues to deepen the study of the domain of visual consciousness. The basic methodological feature employed since the beginning of her research activity is to consider the psychic apparatus that is mobilized in the making of images as a reflection of what happens with vision in the brain as a consequence and cause of that making.

She has been teaching since 2018 in the degrees taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UPV/EHU and since 2023 in the master’s degree in Research and Creation in Art.