INCENTIVOS A LA PRODUCCIÓN IBEROAMERICANA - VIDA 10.0
Alex Posada y Alejo Duque
España
About the project
Greenbots will consist of a series of small robots created from simple
electronics, with sensors, communication systems (radio, infrared,
rfid, GPS) and solar panels that can absorb the energy required to
power their night-time activity during the day. These organisms, whose
shapes will vary (mechanical butterflies, balls, etc.), will be located
at strategic points from which they will work and begin to react with
the environment as programmed, gathering data, changing shape, generating
light and sound effects, evolving, reprogramming themselves and other
nearby greenbots and transmitting all the information to an online
database. This information is a creative and innovative way of representing
the levels of environmental pollution to which we are continuously
subjected. This contamination will affect the Greenbots physically,
modifying them internally without them realising. The Greenbots are
an allusion to the new technological ecosystem we have created and
to the damaged natural ecosystem in which we all live.
Career
After completing his studies in Technical Telecommunications Engineering
at the University of Cantabria, Alex Posada moved to Barcelona in 2002,
where he began to work on interactive design and electronic art projects
and the development of physical interfaces for musical instruments.
During this year, he developed various interactive installations, such
as Imaginarium (INJUVE 2002 audiovisual production fellowship) and
Daylight modulations (a sound installation for a public space). Shortly
afterwards, he began to collaborate actively with local artists such
as Xavier Hurtado, José Manuel Berenguer, the collective "Joystick",
Maria Stamenkovic Herranz and "Konic Thtr". In 2002, he created KNAL,
a pseudonym under which he began to publish musical productions related
to experimental electronic music and sound art. After 2003, he worked
on events related with the theatre, such as the show titled The sound
forest - a tribute to John Cage, the theatre production The black leg,
directed by Roger Gual for the GREC 2003 Festival and The tale and
Provenance: unknown with Maria Stamenkovic Herranz until 2006. Together
with Carlos M. Franco he received a fellowship from the MTG (music
technology group) of the Pompeu Fabra University (2003-2006) for the
development of the project Mitosis produced by the Phonos Foundation,
the 30km/s Foundation and the Generalitat de Catalunya. In 2004, he
founded the collective "dorkbot-barcelona" with another 4 people and
obtained a residency (2004-2006) in the Metrònom Gallery (Rafael
Tous Foundation of Contemporary Art). He also became involved in architecture
projects, such as the wiki-plaza project ("the plaza of freedom” in
Seville). He talked several workshops that focused on artistic creation
with interactive technologies in Barcelona, Gerona and Bilbao: open
hardware lab, Arduino, Pure Data, interactive technologies for the
arts. He currently directs and coordinates the Hangar interactive design
and electronic laboratory (centre of visual arts) in Barcelona, where
he has carried out numerous projects in conjunction with other artists.
Alejo Duque is currently completing a PhD at www.egs.edu. He devotes
his free time to interfacing spaces and trajectories that cross the
digital networks in which he takes part and lives. His main interest
lies in transcultural collaborations, preferably on the Southern hemisphere<-> East
axis. He also researches sound and image data for S.O.U.P*and son0p.