rodrigo nava ramírez (he/him) is an artist and web programmer from mexico city, spending his time in between berlin, glasgow and geneva
throughout his work, rodrigo seeks to reframe digital technologies—such as the web, ar, live streams, geolocation and biometrics—as tools to explore spaces that are materially and temporary restricted, allowing alternative spaces for representation capable of escaping western logic and structures. the emancipation of technology as a true decolonizing act of resistance.
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education
2018 - 2020, master of fine art, the glasgow school of art (glasgow, uk). 2017, design and technology bootcamp, the new school (new york, us). 2015 - 2016 msc product design engineering, the glasgow school of art (glasgow, uk).exhibitions
2022. pool party , screening, microscope gallery (new york, us). 2022, happy tide will flood again , group show, 5 florence street (glasgow, uk). 2020, únafest , group show, saltspace (glasgow, uk : cancelled) and online. 2019, unsettling time , pavillion for the wrong biennale , space 204 (nashville, us) and online. 2019, (p)arty, group show/part of the rhs residency, galerie du sauvage (porrentruy, ch). 2019, current flows, group show, tontine building (glasgow, uk). 2019, mfa interim show , group show, the glue factory (glasgow, uk). 2019, puentes, group show, tradestone bridges (glasgow, uk). 2019, haunting never touching, group show, a studio for utterances (glasgow, uk). 2017, bootcamp showcase, group show, d12, parsons the new school (new york, us) 2016, graduate degree show, group show, reid bulding (glasgow, uk)residencies
2022, callie’s (berlin, de). 2021, school for poetic computation, cocoon (online : new york, us). 2021, hospitalfield, graduate residency (arbroath, uk). 2020, digital artist residency (online : oxford, uk). 2019, résidence henriette sanglard , rhs19 (porrentruy, ch).awards and grants
2022, creative scotland (uk) . open fund for individuals, 2020, glasgow sculpture studios (uk) , honorary membership. 2020, pro helvetia (ch) , «close distance», in collaboration with jeanne tullen.interviews and publications
2020, stillpoint magazine, 005: daze . 2020, jerry gogosian , augmented reality as alter antropological tool.workshops and teaching
2022, 3d modelling and ar youth workshop, lead instructor, scorescotland (edinburgh, uk). 2022, creative coding mentoring, lead instructor, market gallery development programme (glasgow, uk). 2019, “one therabyte of kilobye age” with olia lialina, impakt (utrecht, nl). 2018, codeyourfuture , teacher assistant, kinning park complex (glasgow, uk). 2017, “designed realities lab” with dunne and raby, the new school (new york, us).
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- if wishes where horses ...
- cómo reencarnar al templo mayor usando blender
- severed words
- ocho-presagios
- theworkout.ch
- see-also.net
- next to you (in-malibu.mx)
- www.google.co.uk on april 12th 2019 with ip address 194.81.31.5
working title of my current research where I look at the figure of the mounted horse and the role it played during the spanish
conquest of mexico juxtaposed with the image of the mounted police force deployed for crowd control. through this research i am experimenting
with augmented reality machine learning and physical computing to develop an installation, where an audience would be moved through space
by half digital half physical beings using crowd control techniques. i am looking at using emergin technology as means to
recreate the bewilderment caused by horses on the first encounter of the mexica with the spanish and it’s underlying cohersion, by juxtaposing it with current policing methods.
(wip) a step-by-step video tutorial into learning blender through the mexico city metropolitan cathedral, a structure built
through the destruction of tenochtitlan’s major mexica centre, the first political statement by the spanish following the conquest. using drone photography taken of the cathedral after a
major earthquake in mexico city as starting point, a hybrid is generated merging both architectures. an opportunity for digital rebirth.
the video is part of my current research “what loads up, ghosts around”, looking at the format of the “how to” video as
a learning tool capable of generating alternative knowledge channels and its potential for alter anthropology and
refusal.
(2022) is a museum like installation displaying my personal collection of stolen/taken objects from the ocho-presagios.mx website. images taken from the show happy tide will flood again in glasgow, uk.
(2022) ocho-presagios.mx is an ephemeral website. after every visit, a word from it is downloaded to the visitor’s computer/mobile as a 3D object
for them to keep. the website tells the story of the eight badly omens, a series of happenings the mexica account seeing prior to the
arrival of the conquistadores in mexico. webiste's introductory text by chloë reid .
(2020) together with jeanne tullen we imagine the workout of the future. humans and computers have developed a relationship based on symbiotic mutualism
through the hardware that connects them, and the 'human' line that once divided them is now blurred. theworkout.ch
explores the potential of online tutorials as triggers for physical interactivity and performability while
simultaneously looking at their potential for machine learning. presented as a website offering an interactive workout
tutorial, theworkout.ch is in fact an experiment, looking at the
hybridisation of the human-machine body and developing innovative ways of physically engaging with digital mediums. with support from pro helvetia and the swiss cultural fund uk.
(2020) is an exercise into accessing the paranodal space of the internet. the space in between the nodes where you can't be reached. see-also.net is a closed up network connected through random hyperlinks.
every word clicked is added to a parallel narrative , a cut-up that leaks in between the nodes. a hyperstitional experiment that leaks out the future by cutting up the present. a whole history of the internet is waiting to be
told, not based on globalisation, but on political blockage; on when the internet ceases to exist.
for many years, california has represented a cultural and geographical centre: the birthplace of “cool”, a place of endless sun, beaches, and possibilities. a mythical image of the promised land, the ideal lifestyle.
it is also the place form which i got deported and banned from the usa in 2017.
“next to you (in-malibu.mx)” is a longing for a place that i can’t physically access. by transferring real world data
—my facial expressions through face recognition and a livestream of malibu beach—and making them cohabit in a use hosted, pacific time zone tied website, i can bypass these geographical
limitations imposed on me.
(2019) is a book that, if input correctly back into a computer, will allow you to see the google search engine as myself, from my computer in that exact date, the 100th anniversary of bauhaus. available at goodpress
