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Agata
Alcaniz
Biography
Agata
Alcaniz, an artist from Barcelona (Spain) based in Manchester
(UK). She studied Graphic Design Degree at the International
Massana College (Spain) and has exhibited throughout Manchester,
Liverpool and many other galleries and festivals in England,
Spain and Portugal.
Her
main practice is explored through various modes of digital
media in contemporary arts and cultures. These are fused
with research interventions in different urban spaces,
which are inspired by her passion on the subject of environmental
issues. Her work platforms a visual dialogue her main
subject of interest, which is conceptualised through live
art and digital video to inform and enlightenment. The
contextualisation of her art has been platformed in large
scale installations, where the senses become absorbed
in the art to instill the concept embodied by the artist.
She
is a dynamic artist with zeal and vigour, not only on
the subjects that influence and shape her art on the subject
of environmentalism, but the diversification of how these
topical subjects are communicated through the different
technological processes she employs in her work.
Statement
After
being graduated in Contemporary Art my goal is to develop
as an artist. I am interested in explore different aspects
of reality and produce artworks that reflect them. The
aim of these explorations is to capture these realities
to be able to understand them, myself and the public that
experience my work.
I
have two main areas of interest. One is around environmental
issues, as for instance the impact of waste that human
kind generates in our times. The outcome of these investigations
has taken the form of performance and installation work,
using litter and other media. The last installation of
this kind was a big wall made of ice cubes that contained
litter I gathered from what I have termed ‘Environmental
Performances’.
My
second area of interest is the visualization of all those
realities that escape to our natural sight, reason for
which I like to use any technology which can visualizes
them. For this I have produced Interactive Installations
using different electronic equipment.
Finally,
I like to produce Interactive Installations where is the
audience who creates the final result. With this kind
of work I like to give the opportunity to people to participate
in the creation of the artwork plus create an environment
to explore the principles of interactivity between people.
Presentation
Àgata
Alcañiz is an artist from Barcelona based in Manchester.
Originally she studied a four years Graphic Design course
at the International Massana College. This is right in
the city center of this well known city for its broad
culture, art and creativity. While studying she got experience
in a Graphic Design and in a Cartographic Studios.
Being
interested in Digital Art she did a one-year Erasmus program,
enrolling in a Multimedia Course at the Arts Institute
at Bournemouth. She acquired many computer programs knowledge.
Progressively in her career though, Àgata become
more interested in aplying all the visual knowledge and
new technologies acquired over the years, for artistic
and no for commercial means. It is then that she decided
to find a course that allowed her to do so. Gladly, she
found it. That was Contemporary Art at Manchester Metropolitan
University.
After
being graduated in Contemporary Art my goal is to develop
as an artist. I am interested in explore different aspects
of reality and produce artworks that reflect them. The
aim of these explorations is to capture these realities
to be able to understand them, myself and the public that
experience my work.
I
have two main areas of interest. One is around environmental
issues, as for instance the impact of waste that human
kind generates in our times. The outcome of these investigations
has taken the form of performance and installation work,
using litter and other media. The last installation of
this kind was a big wall made of ice cubes that contained
litter I gathered from what I have termed ‘Environmental
Performances’.
My
second area of interest is the visualization of all those
realities that escape to our natural sight, reason for
which I like to use any technology which can visualizes
them. For this I have produced Interactive Installations
using different electronic equipment.
Finally,
I like to produce Interactive Installations where is the
audience who creates the final result. With this kind
of work I like to give the opportunity to people to participate
in the creation of the artwork plus create an environment
to explore the principles of interactivity between people.
Àgata
has exhibited at the Green Room, Manchester and has participated
at the Electronic Festival Showskills here in Manchester
and Portugal (www.showskills.com). Recently she has run
an art project at the Pyramid and Parr Center in Warrington,
for a group of homeless residents at James Lee House Hostel
(Salvation Army). She also has exhibited at LIVE!, a collective
exhibition held at the Egg, Liverpool. Currently she is
engaged in different art projects.
Curriculum
Vitae
Education
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01-04 BA Contemporary Art at Manchester Metropolitan University
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99-01 HND Multimedia at the Art Institute at Bournemouth
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94-99 BA Graphic Design at Massana College, Barcelona
Work
Experience
-
Jan06 Graphic Design at Azabany Printing.
I am currently employed at Azabany Printing where I am
the coordinator of the graphic design studio.
(Reference: Ali Darra, Manager, mob. 0775 4542 599)
- May-July 05 Teacher in Adult Education at the Arts Centre
Pyramid and Parr Center in Warrington
I run an art project at the Pyramid and Parr Center in
Warrington for a group of homeless residents at James
Lee House Hostel (Salvation Army). I showed the live and
work of the artist Salvador Dali and the computer software
Adobe Photoshop. The project consisted in the production
of Digital Images and ended with a performance. The video
of the performance was shown at CULTUREFEST 05 along with
the images each individual create.
(Reference: Julie Collins, Course leader outreach, mob.
0796 3815966)
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Dec-May 03 General Assistant within the Department of
Exercise and Sport Science at Manchester Metropolitan
University.
I worked with qualified technicians supervising the status
of all electronic equipment in that department. (Reference:
Mark McDonah, IT Manager, tel. 0161 247 5425)
-Oct-May
02 General Assistant within the Information System Unit
at Manchester Metropolitan University at Alseger.
The job consisted in the saved removal of old computers
and other electronic devices.
(Reference: Mike Edleston, IS Manager at Alseger Campus,
tel. 0161 247 5365)
-June-Sept
01 Sign maker at Positive Installations at The Warehouse
98-102 Charminster Rd. Bournemouth BH8 8US ( tel. 01202
291901)
I produced Shop Signs
-July-Sept
98 Cartographer at Rafael Pavia Cartographic Studio
243 Calabria Rd. Barcelona (tel. 0034 93 2265247).
I worked in the production of maps for a Book, ‘History
of Spain’, to be studied by the first year of the
History course at University of Barcelona (UB)
-Oct.
Dec 97 Part time job as a Graphic Designer at Imago Comunicacio
Studio
55 Avenir Rd. Barcelona ( tel. 0034 93 414 7741)
-June-Sept
96 Training as a Graphic Designer in Imago Comunicacio
Graphic Design Studio.
Skills
Print
drawing, illustration, photography, typography, screen
printing and layout.
Broadcast graphics in motion.
Screen Design web design, Multimedia CD ROMs.
Computer Software Quark Press, Freehand or Illustrator,
Photoshop.
AfterEffects, Premier, Sound Edit, Director, Dream Weaver.
Explorer or Netscape.
Video use of Video Camera, Video Digitalization and Editing.
Sensors work to produce interactive installations.
Exhibitions
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Live 04 ‘ Catharsis’ at the Green room, Manchester
( 11th of June 2004)
This exhibition was a platform for the latest and best
innovative and interdisciplinary art and performance by
new artists graduating from the Department of Contemporary
art at Manchester Metropolitan University. I was invited
by my tutors to exhibit ‘Abstract Communication’,
an interactive installation where people from two different
spaces could communicate verbally and by a spectrograph
of the sound of their voices.
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Showskills, Internet Action Art Space, at the Zoo, Manchester
(4th of December 2004)
This was an art event of a whole day, which aim was to
show the possibilities of different technologies in the
field of creativity (Internet Filmaking, D’j, V’j,
Internet Activism and Interactive Art among others. There
were artists invited from around the world (Brazil, Portugal,
Amsterdam, Bristol, Manchester, and London). Different
workshops were held through the day. For more information,
visit www. Showskills.com
I participated with an interactive installation where
the audience triggered sound and video from Pad Sensors.
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Showskills 2 Portugal. Two days, first at Hard Club (hard-club.com),
Porto, and second at Zedobois (zedobois.org), Lisbon.
(4th and 5th of February respectively of 2005)
Showskills was brought to Portugal, bringing again artists
from around the world, this time including an artist from
Japan.
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Live! at the Egg, Liverpool 23rd November 2005 till 8
of January 2006.
Live! was a Collective Photographic exhibition that worked
with the theme of live performance. I presented a photographic
digital artwork of my live performance ‘No babies.
http://www.dieoff.org/page174.htm’ carry out on
the streets of Manchester on June 2005.
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