BIO
Short Bio
My background is in Arts and Digital Media. I recently joined the University of Kent as a Lecturer in Digital Media (School of Engineering & Digital Arts), and completed my PhD ‘Walking with portable projections’ at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Prof Chris Speed and Prof Simon Biggs. I also hold an MSc in Design & Digital Media from the University of Edinburgh (Junta de Andalucia TALENTIA scholarship): this project ’Mediated Creative Places’ came out of that. I have secured funding to organise three ‘Life in 3D’ symposiums (2013-2016), and to develop the light-seeking robotic installation ‘Lichtsuchende’ in collaboration with Dr Dave Murray-Rust (2014-2015). In 2016, I was artist-in-residency at the ECA School of Design working on the project ‘flowing with the city’ (with David Strang and Vincent Van Uffelen), and artist-in-residency at the Clipperton Project - Azores Expedition working with the Walk&Talk Festival on my site-specific project ‘zones of flow’. I was commissioned to develop the audiovisual walk ‘(Wh)ere Land’ for Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival in 2014, and in 2013 to produced ‘Walk-itch’ (collective Glitch’d event) for the Edinburgh International Festival. In 2013 I was artist-in-residecy at HfG Karlsruhe (Germany) and in 2012 artist-in-residency at I-Park Foundation (Connecticut, USA). In 2012, I got immersed in the intriguing world of digital stereoscopy, and was granted a scholarship to attend MEDIA-Training Programme course on Stereoscopic Film at CIANT (Czech Republic).
Artist Statement
Rocio is a German/Spanish artist and researcher working on walking practices, wool threads, optics and site-specificity. Her research is concerned with the transitory nature of things and the textural qualities of outdoor spaces. She produces temporary audiovisual installations and video walks. In her work, she aims to establish a dialogue between technology (tools) and nature (environment), between body and space, between ephemerality and persistence. Her current art practice is focused on interdisciplinary processes and she combines traditional techniques such as sculpture, drawing, textiles and print with video, sound, sensors, wireless cameras, projections and performance. Her practice draws on audiovisual media ecosystems and embodiment, and focuses on in-between and hybrid spaces, audience participation, outdoors, live interventions, and on the phenomenological experience of moving in the environment.
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