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Mario Santamaría (Burgos, 1985) works across a wide range of media, frequently using photography, video, performance, websites and online interventions. He is part of the space Trama34 in Hospitalet de Llobregat, collaborates regularly in the festival The Influencers of the CCCB Barcelona and co-curator of the Internet Yami-Ichi in Matadero Madrid. He was recently a finalist in the Post-Photography Prototyping Prize of the Fotomuseum Winterthur and included in Watched! Surveillance, Art and Photography by the Hasselblad Foundation.

He has been artist in residence in Hangar Barcelona, Sarai New Delhi, HISK Gantes, Art3 Valence, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart and Flax Art Studios, Belfast. His work has been shown among others in: CaixaForum Barcelona, MACBA Barcelona, ZKM Karlsruhe, WKV Stuttgart, Edith-Russ-Haus Oldenburg, Fundació Antoni Tàpies Barcelona, CENART Mexico, La Casa Encendida Madrid, Arebyte London, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Das Weisse Haus Vienna, Or Gallery Berlin and in the Biennials of Thessaloniki, Havana and Lyon.

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Mario Santamaría (Burgos, 1985) trabaja a través de una amplia gama de medios, utilizando frecuentemente fotografía, video, performance, sitios web y intervenciones en línea. Forma parte del espacio Trama34 en Hospitalet de Llobregat, colabora habitualmente en el festival The Influencers del CCCB en Barcelona, co-comisario del Internet Yami-Ichi en Matadero Madrid. Recientemente y ha sido finalista en el Post-Photography Prototyping Prize del Fotomuseum Winterthur e incluido en Watched! Surveillance, Art and Photography de la Fundación Hasselblad.

Ha sido artista residente en Hangar Barcelona, Sarai Nueva Delhi, HISK Gantes, Art3 Valence, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart y Flax Art Studios, Belfast. Su trabajo ha sido mostrado entre otros en: CaixaForum Barcelona, MACBA Barcelona, ZKM Karlsruhe, WKV Stuttgart, Edith-Russ-Haus Oldenburg, Fundació Antoni Tàpies Barcelona, CENART México, La Casa Encendida Madrid, Arebyte Londres, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Das Weisse Haus Vienna, Or Gallery Berlin y en las Bienales de Tesalónica, La Habana y Lyon.




Solo exhibitions

2021. Unfixed I n f r a s t r u c t u r e s  and Rabbit Holes. Drugo More, Filodrammatica Gallery. Rijeka, Croatia
2021. U n f i x e d  Infrastructures and Rabbit Holes. Aksioma, Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, Slovenia
2020. Unfixed Infrastructures and Rabbit Holes. Blueproject Foundation, Bcn, ES
 2020. Dilalica. The blurry Thing. Swab Barcelona Art Fair
2019. 💫 . A10, Valencia, ES
2018. Apologies for the slow reply. Trama34, Hospitalet, ES
2018. Show me a Ghost. Art3, Valence, France
2017. Eye Disorders. Espacio Zink. Sala Unamuno. Salamanca, ES
2015. The Act and the Tracer. Querungen, Württ Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
2014. Actions in Between the Rescue. PS² Rehearsal Room. Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
2012. This is a short kiss. Exchange Collective Arts Center. Dublín, Ireland


Residencies 

2019. BlueProject Foundation. Bcn, ES
2017. Cross residence art3 / Homesession. Valence, France
2016. Hangar. Barcelona, ES
2016. HISK. Exchange program. Ghent, Belgium
2015. Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart, Germany
2015. L'Estruch. Mediaestruch. Sabadell, ES
2014. Flax Art Studios. Belfast. Northern Ireland, UK
2012. Sarai. New Delhi, India
2012. Exchange Arts Collective Center. Dublin, Ireland
2010. In Between. Delphus project. Delphi, Greece

Group exhibitions

2021. Our garden needs its flowers. Centre d'Art Tecla Sala, Hospitalet de Llobregat, ES

2020. Panorama#4. Galería Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca, ES
2020. La isla bonita. SAC. Fabra i Coats - Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, ES
2020. BIAM. Biennal d'Art Ciudat d'Amposta, Centre d'Art Lo Pati, Tarragona, ES
2020. AF-FAIR. Barcelona Gallery Weekend. Trama34, L'Hospitalet
 2020. The Bee Who Forgot the Honey. Curated by Aurélien Le Genissel. Loop Festival, Bcn, ES
 2020. HOST. CPU. Online. Buenos Aires, AR
 2020. Epicentre. The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, Centre del Carme Valencia, ES

2019. Writing the History of the Future. ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
 2019. Home. Arebyte on screen. Londres
 2019. Un món paral-lel. Curated by Joan Fontcuberta. Arts Santa Mònica Barcelona, ES
 2019. Recuerda el fuego de agosto. Fabra i Coats - Centre d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, ES
 2019. Sociedad Vigiladas. Colateral XIII Bienal de La Habana. Cuba.
 2019. [a href="     "] , Curated by Pedro Torres. Sant Andreu Contemporani. Barcelona, ES

2018. A Certain Darkness. CaixaForum Barcelona, ES
 2018. Produce, Produce, Produce(D). LOOP Festival, Reial Cercle Artístic, Barcelona, ES
2018. Premi Miquel Casablancas. Fabra i Coats - Centre d' Art Contemporani, Barcelona, ES
 2018. Can' t Speak for Itself. Casa Encendida. Madrid, ES
 2018. The Futch. Sala de Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid. ES
 2018. 15ª Mostra, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), A Coruña, ES
 2018. Contra la represión y la censura. Espacio Tangente, Burgos, ES
 2018. BIAM - Biennal d'Art Ciutat d'Amposta. Centre d’Art de les Terres de l' Ebre, Amposta, ES

2017. Daydreaming subverts the world. Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, Holland.
 2017. The world is not enough. 6th Thessaloniki Biennale. Greece.
 2017. Doppelgänger. Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, ES
 2017. Infosphere. CENART. Centro National de las Artes, Mexico DF
 2017. No secrets! – Images of surveillance. Münchner Stadtmuseum, Germany
 2017. VIII Bienal de Jafre. Jafre, Girona, ES
 2017. Dual Club. Espacio Tangente. Burgos, ES
 2017. El gran tour. Curated by Beatriz Escudero. Sant Andreu Contemporani. Barcelona, ES

2016. Do you believe? Fabra i Coats - Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, ES
 2016. Cibergeografías. Cultural Center of Spain in Montevideo, Uruguay
 2016. Remote Signals. ARS Building, Tallinn, Estonia.
 2016. Lightning Studies: CTCCC. Encura, Hangar, Barcelona, ES
 2016. Lend Me Your Softness. Curated by Renan Laruan. Art Center College of Design, California, US

2015. Species of Spaces. MACBA Barcelona, ES
2015. Infosphere. ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
2015. Inéditos. Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES
2015. Meta(data)morphosis. Or Gallery Berlin, Germany
2015. Dialog 3. Goethe-Institut Barcelona, ES
2015. Cibergeografías. MEIAC, Itinerant, Argentina
2015. To Whom It May Concern. Bass and Reiner, San Francisco, US
2015. Antipodes. RMIT Link Arts and Culture. Conduit Arts. Melbourne, Australia
2015. Flanetrie. Nomade Art Space, Hangzhou, China

2014. We are Here Because you were/are (t)here. Das Weisse Haus. Vienna, Austria
 2014. Post-Lectures. CoEspai. Girona, ES
 2014. R.A.M. New Media Art Festival, Arad Art Museum, Arad, Romania
 2014. Me, me, mirror. The Ha'Riviera Gallery, Bat Yan, Israel
 2014. Biennale #nfcdab. Curated by Dominik Podsiadły, Wrocław, Poland
 2014. Net-Recycling. 6th Monaddigital.net. Nomade Art Space, Hangzhou, China
 2014. Monte de Estepar. Espacio Tangente, Burgos, ES
 2014. On Mediation. Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc. Barcelona, ES
 2014. Veintitantos. CAB. Burgos, ES
 2014. Mollet Art'14. Museo Abelló. Mollet del Vallès, ES
 2014. Obra Abierta. Premio Caja Extremadura. Extremadura, ES
 2014. Look into the Net. Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art. Oldenburg, Germany
 2014. Re/Mixed Media Festival. The New School, New York City, US

2013. Fuga. Variaciones para una exposición. Fundació Antoni Tàpies. Barcelona, ES
 2013. Desmontajes, re/apropiaciones e intrusiones. Netescopio. Zaragoza, ES
 2013. Fórum Eugénio de Almeida. Évora, Portugal
 2013. Sarai Reader 09. Devi Art Foundation. Gurgaon, India
 2013. The Wrong. New Digital Art Biennale. Online Exhibition

2012. Matadero Madrid. Video Art Clic & Rec. PhotoEspaña. Madrid, ES
 2012. Festival MIMAA. Valencia, ES
2011. Observatori 12º. International Festival of Valencia Artistic Research. Valencia, ES
 2011. (In) visibility y (des) control. Galeria Fernando Pradilla. Madrid, ES
 2011. Microegolatrias. CAM, The Llogeta.Valencia, ES
2009. Bancaja Prizes Sculpture. IVAM. Valencia, ES


Grants & Prizes


2021. La Capella. Barcelona Producció. Barcelona, ES
2020. OSIC. Grant for research and innovation in the fields of the visual arts. Catania, ES.
2020. Premi Miquel Casablancas. SAC. Barcelona, ES
2019. Residencie Program BlueProject Foundation. Barcelona, ES
2018. Production Grant Banco Santander Open Studio, Madrid, ES
2018. Research and development grant at the Hangar Interaction Lab. Barcelona, ES
2017. Production Grant Fundación Kablanc Otazu, Navarra, ES
 2017. Grant crossed residence art3 Valencia and Homesession Barcelona, ES
2016. Finalist, P3: Post-Photography Prototyping Prize. Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
 2016. Grant Exchange program. Hisk. Ghent, Belgium
2014. Grant exchange Baden-Württemberg - Catalonia. Württ Kunstverein, Germany
2013. Production Grant Sala d' Art Jove, Barcelona, ES
2012. Jury Prize, Video Art Clic & Rec. PhotoEspaña 2012, Madrid, ES
2011. Finalist, Prize Video Art Reflecta. Reina Sofía National Museum Art Center. Madrid, ES
2010. Prize Project Espai D' Art. CAM. Valencia, ES
 2010. Emergencias 2.0. La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES

Performances & Actions

2020. Contact Us. Intervention A*Desk contact webpage. https://a-desk.org
2020. Barcelona Internet Tour. Fabra i Coats: Centre d'Art i Fàbrica de Creació, Bcn
2020. Bizkaia Internet Tour. Getxophoto - Festival Internacional de Imagen. Getxo, Bizkaia
2019. Vis a Vis. Eremuak, Bilbao, Bizkaia
2019. Zaragoza Internet Tour. Etopia Centro de Arte y Tecnología. Zaragoza
2019. Barcelona Internet Tour. The Influencers, CCCB, Barcelona
2019. Madrid Internet Tour. Sala de Arte Joven, Madrid


Lectures & Artist Talks

2021. Urbana y Digital. La Casa Encendida. Festival Urbano de Arte Digital de Madrid, ES
2020. TAXIS-studio visit. Ars Electronica Garden Barcelona, Hangar, Bcn
2020. The Right To Look. The Googlified Image. Fotomuseum Winterthur / PhotoIreland Festival
2020. Incarnated algorithms, a journey through network infrastructures. Sónar+D, Bcn
2019. Computational Invisible Control: Infrastructures / Data / Humans. MIRA Festival, Barcelona, ES
2019. And now, what?  PAAC - Plataforma Assembleària d'Artistes de Catalunya
2019. DSIPLAY. Open networks and open knowledge. Hangar, Bcn
2019. Projector - Art Madrid Fair. Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid
2019. DorkBot Barcelona, Hangar, ES
2019. Vis a Vis. Eremuak, Bilbao, ES
2019. "Imaginaciones Artificiales" Artificiales. Curating Photography in the Networked Image Economy. Foto Colectania, Barcelona, ES
2019. La nube y la niebla. Etopia Centro de Arte y Tecnología. Valencia, ES
2019. Master Class. Master AVM, UPV, Valencia, ES
2019. FUGA. Creative Documentary and Contemporary Photography. Barcelona, ES
2019. Paratext nº 36. Hangar, Barcelona, ES
2019. "Imaginaciones Artificiales" Artificiales. Curating Photography in the Networked Image Economy. Foto Colectania, Barcelona, ES
2017. Coloquios de Cultura Visual Contemporánea. Fundación Mainel, Valencia, ES
2017. The Utopia of Access. Research Pavillion, in the context of 57th Venice Biennale, Italy
2017. Art and Aesthetics Research. La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, ES
2017. Cultura 17. Arte Post-Internet. Radio 3. Museo del Prado. Madrid, ES
2017. Art Madrid'17. Madrid, ES
2016. Demo Night. 4S/EASST Conference. Hangar, Barcelona. ES
2015. Les Encontres e-rregulars. Hangar, Barcelona
2015. Swab Art Fair. Round table. Barcelona, ES
2015. Spielart Festival. Munich, Germany
2015. Open Studios. Hangar.org. Barcelona, ES
2015. Paratex Nº3. Hangar, Barcelona, ES
2015. Württembergischer Kunstverein. Stuttgart, Germany
2015. Club 11. Kunststiftung BW, Stuttgart, Germany
2014. GoldenThread Gallery, Belfast. Northern Ireland
2013. Kedarte Redes. La Lata Muda. DA2. Salamanca, ES
2013. Espècies d'espais: exercicis sobre la ciutat. Sala d`Art Jove, Barcelona, ES
2010. Emergencias 2.0. La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES


Workshops, Labs & Courses imparted


2020. Embodying Infrastructures. ISIA, Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche di Urbino, Italy
2020. Incarnated algorithms, a journey through network infrastructures. Sónar+D, Bcn
2017. End2End Manifest. Online Lab. DONE2, Foto Colectania
2016. Dis-routing: Enrutamiento y deriva. Exploraciones visuales, tiempo real y tráfico de datos. Medialab-Prado. Madrid, ES
2012. Open workshop. Hack Public Webcam. Exchange Collective Arts Center. Open Learning Ireland, Dublin. Ireland
2011. Depicting Juba. Art, Politics and Society. AECID. With Depicting Group. Juba - Khartoum, Sudan


Education

2011. Universite Paris 8. Paris, France
2010 - 2012. Master Visual Arts and Multimedia. UPV. University of Valencia, ES
2004 - 2010. Bachelor of Fine Arts. UPV. University of Salamanca - Valencia, ES


Curated & Organizations & Collectives & Conspiracies

2016 -
Trama34
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, ES

2018 - 2019
Madrid Internet Yami-Ichi.
Tentacular. Matadero Madrid, ES

2018 - 2019
Barcelona Internet Yami-Ichi
The Influencers, Barcelona, ES

2015
Les Encontres e-rregulars
Hangar, Barcelona, ES

2011 - 2012
Fycam. Experimental Creation Art Cicle
Dublin, Ireland

2011
Depicting Group. Art, Culture and Society

2008 - 2011
The Xpecific Route. Underground Film Festival
GTCE Group. Experimental Cinema Work Group. Valencia, ES



Publications & Catalogs

The Fog of Systems. By Bani Brusadin. Aksioma, Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, Slovenia. EN. (Ljubljana, 2021)
Improvisation rules. Catalogue. Homesession EN/ES (Barcelona, 2019)
GUEST, GHOST, HOST: MACHINE! , Booklet, Serpentine Galleries (London, 2017)
No secrets. Ausstellungskatalog Münchner Stadtmuseum und ERES-Stiftung München. ISBN 978-3-00-056058-3. (München, 2017)
Paratext Vol.1 Hangar. ISBN:978-84-617-6320-7. (Barcelona, 2016)
Watched! Surveillence, Art and Photography. ISBN:9783863359591. Koenig Books (London, 2016)
The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital. Institute of Network Cultures. ISBN: 978-94-92302-08-3. (Amsterdam, 2016)
Desierto Magazine 4º. MONEY. PAPER Architectural Histamine. DL: M-29532-2013 (Madrid, 2016)
I desire to become data: code, criticism and art. By Carmela Thiele. KUNSTFORUM, Band 237 (De, 2016)
Lightning Studies: Centre for the Translation of Constraints, Conflicts and Contaminations. Hangar, (Barcelona, 2016)
Avant Sala + Fuga. Sala d'Art Jove Barcelona, 2013. DL: B-5027-2015 (Barcelona, 2015)
Inéditos 2015, Casa Encendiada DL: M-33373-2015 (Madrid, 2015)
Qunice planes terroristas. Sant Andreu Contemporani, DL: B-37494-2015 (Barcelona, 2015)
P—DPA, Post-Digital Publishing Archive (2015)
Web. Printed Web #3, Library of the Printed (USA, 2015)
Comú, Cicle d'Exposicions On mediation, DL: B-14.014-2014 (Barcelona, 2015)
It's Nice That Annual (London, 2014)
Media Art Festival Arad, RAM festival catalog (Romania, 2014)
ZUM! 7 Magazine (Brazil, 2014)
The Museum Interface, Art in America (New York, 2014)
Prácticas artísticas digitales y tecnologías de control y vigilancia, PhD Thesis. Paloma G. Díaz. (ES, 2013)
Art as a Place by Raqs Media Collective with Kaushik Bhaumik (New Delhi, 2013)



Interviews & Articles


Taking data packets for a ride. Interview with Regine Debatty. We Make Money Not Art. (EN, 2020)
La nube y cómo manipular el tráfico de datos. Por Saioa Camarzana. El Cultural (ES, 2019)
Este robot se ha hecho selfies alrededor de todo el mundo. Pablo Lopez. Binary Mag (ES, 2019)
Donde habita Internet: un recorrido turístico por las infraestructuras de la Red en Zaragoza. Óscar Senar Canalís. El Diario.es (ES, 2019)
Esto es Internet Tour, turismo por las infraestructuras de internet. Pablo Lopez. Binary Mag (ES, 2019)
Finding Solace in Liminality and Confusion: an Ode to the Google Maps Robot. Incite Journal. By Carlinhos Manuel Gomes (EN, 2019)
Archivo y viaje al imago mundi de la red. Aymara Arreaza R. A*DESK (ES, 2018)
Networked or Unmonumental. On PortInternet Art. Estonian Art. Pau Waelder (EN, 2017)
Podcast. About 03:23. Encura, The Conversation. Project by Lauren Wetmore (ES, 2015)
El arte digital en el océano del Big Data, Marta Álvarez, NYR Magazine nº6 (ES, 2015)
Google's quest to make art available to everyone was foiled by copyright concerns, The Washington Post (EN, 2015)
The Cyborg Selfie, Grey on Grey, Pooja Sen (EN, 2014)
The Googlization of Art, Vice (EN, 2014)
La vigilancia como catástrofe, Código Magazine (ES, 2014)
Night at the Museum, The Paris Review (En, 2014)
A Tumblr Chronicles Google Art Project Copyright Fails, ArtNet (EN, 2014)
Trolling Google Art for Glitches, Vocativ (EN, 2014)
Podcasts. Espècies d'espais: exercicis sobre la ciutat, Sonia Fernández Pan (ES, 2013)
Las nuevas narrativas de las cámaras de vigilancia, El País (ES, 2013)
¿Quién vigilará a los vigilantes?, El País (ES, 2012)