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FEDERICO
DÍAZ
*1971

 

BIO

 

An artist of Czech-Argentinian background, Federico Díaz uses new media to uncover the material elements of the natural world that cannot be perceived by human senses, with the use of artificial intelligence and the latest materials.

CV

 

He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1990-1997), where he successively attended a studio run by Karel Malich, Stanislav Kolíbal and Aleš Veselý. In 1993 he received a scholarship to the Alexander-Dorner-Kreis. He also completed a fellowship at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris and the Soros Center for Contemporary Art.[1]

He has lectured at Masaryk University in Brno, where he was involved in the creation of the digital media specialization at the Faculty of Social Studies. In Prague, between 2008-2014, he was the head of the Supermedia Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, which he co-founded with David Kořínek, a member of the Rafani art group. He has also lectured at Columbia University, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Buffalo New York University, ETH Zurich, Gramazio and Kohler Chair in Architecture, and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, New York for the Rensselaer School of Architecture.

 

Since the first half of the 1990s, he has exhibited in leading festivals and group exhibitions of new media in Europe and also in Japan. He had his first solo exhibition at the Prague City Gallery in 1997, since then he has exhibited in the Czech Republic at the Brno House of Arts, Moravian Gallery, Mánes Exhibition Hall, Prague Castle Riding Hall and the National Gallery in Prague.

He has also exhibited at numerous international exhibitions and prominent institutions such as the Institute of Contemporary Art/ ICA, Royal Institute of British Architects, both in London, ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (2004), Fondation Electicité de France in Paris (2003), Ars Electronica Festival in Linz (2005), Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2005), MASS MoCA in Massachusetts, USA (2010) and 53. In 2018 he presented a monumental public sculpture Subtile in California, USA.

ARTPIECE

BIG LIGHT: VESSELS 
molten-glass sculpture
Lhotský glassworks
2019

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