PUBLIC PROGRAM ESTE CHARLA | Art & Coding
Luisa Pereira, Artist, Engineer and Musician (Uruguay)
Alvaro Cassinelli, Telecommunications Engineer (Uruguay)
Surya Mattu, Artist and Engineer (India)
Luisa Pereira (Uruguay) is an artist, engineer and musician. She is a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts, University of New York, in the Interactive Media Arts and Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) programs. As an artist, she has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile, at Nueva Inc, at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC), Ableton Loop (Berlin), FILE (São Paulo) and Sonar + D (Buenos Aires), among others. As a designer and engineer, she has carried out projects for clients such as Google Creative Lab, Pandora and Samsung. She is a collaborator of the Processing Foundation and has developed creative computer programs for the New York City Department of Education.
Álvaro Casinelli (Uruguay) He is a telecommunications engineer and PhD in Physics. He worked as Assitant Professor at the University of Tokyo for fifteen years and there he created his own research group. He investigates the nexus of art and science, his works focus on new ways of fostering artistic human perception and expression, as well as human-computer interfaces for scientific and medical visualization. He has been awarded important international prizes, including the Panasonic Prize (2005), an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica (2006), the Grand Prize (Art Division) at the 9th Japan Media Art Festival (2006), the Excellence Prize (Entertainment Division) at the 13th Japan Media Art Festival (2009), the NISSAN Innovative Concept Award (2010), the Jury Grand Prize at Laval Virtual (2011), the Digital Content EXPO Prize at SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies (2016) among others.
Surya Mattu (India) is an artist and engineer based in Brooklyn. He is currently a fellow at Data&Society where he is investigating infrastructure with a focus on wireless as a way to better understand bias in technology. He is also a contributing researcher at ProPublica. Previously he has worked as an engineer at Bell Labs and is a graduate from the New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He has a degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom