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VERY BRIEF:
Jaime Del Val (Madrid 1974) is
a transdisciplinary artist of old a new technologies of sound, image,
space, body and text (painter and digital artist, composer and pianist,
performer and coreographer, virtual architect, writer and philosopher);
multidisciplinary activist (environmental, queer/gay and other); independent
researcher, organiser of events, teacher and director of REVERSO in which
he promotes diverse initiatives in the crossroads of the body,
arts, technology, critical theory ans political action. His work in dance
and technology, electroacoustics, video and virtual generative architechture
as well as in fields of critical theory has been extensively presented,
awarded, performed or exhibited in Europe and America.
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BRIEF:
Jaime del Val (Madrid
1974), is a digital and visual artist, pianist
and composer, coreographer and performer, writer
and philosopher, independent researcher, activist and director of REVERSO,
the Body Technologies Institute.
He studied piano, conducting, composition and philosophy
in Madrid and London, as well as in courses in Germany, Spain, France
and Greece. Later he lived three years in Florence, developing an activity
as a painter, and studying dance, architecture and etching, exhibiting
his work in Spain, Italy and Austria. He later started to work with electronic
media, and founded Higuerasarte -www.higuerasarte.com- and REVERSO -www.reverso.org. As a pianist he has
given concerts in Spain and the UK and recorded several CD's with the
singer Ana Higueras. As a composer his works have been premiered in London,
Madrid (Royal Theatre, Reina Sofía Museum), Barcelona and other
venues in Spain. Since 2000 he develops projects that bring together electroacoustics,
dance, performance and digital art, as well as, more recently he has developed
large scale intervations in land and urban planning, thus working in the
related fields of sustainable technologies of the body and of the territory.
His interactive dance performances and installations have
received several international awards.
He regularly lectures, exhibits ands performs in inyternational venues
and has participated in numerous international congresses, festivals and
exhibitions in the fields of digital and visual art, music, dance and
critical theory in Europe and North America, such as Digital Cultures
Lab (UK), Dancing the Virtual (Canadá), ArtTechMedia, Ciber@rt
Bilbao 04, Technarte (Bilbao 2006), Art Futura, ARCO, Tentaciones de Estampa,
Museo Reina Sofía, Fundación Rodriguez Acosta (Granada),
La Casa Encendida, JIEM (Jornadas de Informática y Electrónica
Musical del CDMC - Madrid), VAD (Festival de Video y Art Digital - Girona),
Simposio Arte & Media (Barcelona, Caixaforum 2005), MediaLabMadrid,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Higuerasarte, Galería Coldcreation
(Barcelona), amongst others.
He
has published in print and online publications like AMinima, Blank, Cibersociedad,
Ciberart Bilbao, Artnodes and PADM (International Journal for performance
arts and digital media) and is the editor of REVERSO, the first journal
of queer theory in Spanish -www.reverso.org. He regularly lectures in
international conferences of
digital art, music, critical theory and other
topics.
Since 2004 he has developed large scale interventions in landscape, coast,
inland and urban areas through protesting against, sewing and paralysing
large
scale illegal constructions and
future large scale urban developments both in protected areas and in urban
environments, with a considerable impact that has induced transformation
in urban planning in the administrations, the most famous case having
been the paralysing of the Algarrobico hotel in Almeria, and the drastic
reductions in the 500.000 houses foreseen in east Almeria, though not
the only ones. For this purpose he has created, participated in or collaborated
with different organisations (see below).
He
teaches and directs the Body Technologies Workshop in institutions in
Spain and abroad (MediaLabMadrid, La Casa Encendida).
In the period 1997-2001 he was very actively involved in ONG's dealing
with queer (gay-lesbian-transgender-intersexual) activism, participating
in leading organisations in Spain as well as Italy. In 2000 he published
the first Journal of queer theory in Spanish, REVERSO, and currently leads
the queer action group of the same name.
Currently
he is involved in more than ten organisations dealing with
the fight against urban speculation and environemtal-social/housing
activism in
Spain. He is national spokesman of
600 organisations
in the Coordinadora Ciudadana en Defensa del Territorio -www.nosevende.org,
directs two local organisations in Madrid
-www.salvemoslasrozas.org- and Almería, -www.salvemosmojacar.org-,
which recently paralyzed important illegal constructions in the coast,
such as the Algarrobico Hotel, and is spokesma nof regional coordinators
in Almería -www.radete.org, as well as participating in over six
other related organisations.
He combines his activity in dance & technology, with the activity
as a pianist and composer, other digital art projects and work on other
media and disciplines like painting, photography, abstract film, electroacoustics,
interventions in space, interactive installation and performance, virtual
architechture, dance, writing, research, activism and the coordination
of production, research, education and diffusion projects in the context
of REVERSO, the Body Technologies Institute. In 2004-2005 he lived in
Barcelona, presently he lives and works in Madrid and Almería.
Together with his boyfriend, the colombian artist OLINTO,
his family, and the team of REVERSO, he currently prepares the opening
of the First REVERSO Centre, in Zorita de la Frontera, in a country environment
in the region of Salamanca, Spain, containing the production centre of the company,
as well as an ecological country house and artists residence and an International
Centre for Arts, Technology, Critical Theory and Social Action.
He speaks and writes fluently in Spanish, English,
Italian, German and French.
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