SANTIAGO ECHEVERRY
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"The More Perfect Yellow"
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Artist's Statement
I grew up in a country where drug lords were blowing up parts of my city, AIDS was killing my friends and death squads were threatening my life for being openly gay. Instead of seeking cover, I became a very visible New Media artist promoting change in my surroundings through video art, documentaries, performances and political activism.
I moved to New York just as the Internet was beginning to expand and I immediately used the Web as a creative tool where all my art practice would come together, with a global component that was previously unavailable to me. The Internet has become the perfect tool to explore my passion for non-linear filmmaking, digital poetry, cyber-activism, programming, photography, animation and interactive narration.
In a more secure environment, but still struggling with discrimination and intolerance, my work has progressively evolved into a study of the nature of memory. My current interactive projects explore the fragility of life, the effects of media on our experiences and the nature of digital empathy. My recent objects and prints use fragments of my own body – both real and digital - that examine the impact of my brother’s murder in my life.
I grew up in a country where drug lords were blowing up parts of my city, AIDS was killing my friends and death squads were threatening my life for being openly gay. Instead of seeking cover, I became a very visible New Media artist promoting change in my surroundings through video art, documentaries, performances and political activism.
I moved to New York just as the Internet was beginning to expand and I immediately used the Web as a creative tool where all my art practice would come together, with a global component that was previously unavailable to me. The Internet has become the perfect tool to explore my passion for non-linear filmmaking, digital poetry, cyber-activism, programming, photography, animation and interactive narration.
In a more secure environment, but still struggling with discrimination and intolerance, my work has progressively evolved into a study of the nature of memory. My current interactive projects explore the fragility of life, the effects of media on our experiences and the nature of digital empathy. My recent objects and prints use fragments of my own body – both real and digital - that examine the impact of my brother’s murder in my life.
Santiago Echeverry is a Colombian artist currently living in the USA. Thanks to the Fulbright Scholarship he got his Master's in Professional Studies from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. He moved to the USA in 2003 to teach Interactivity at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, UMBC, and then relocated to Florida in the Fall of 2005 to teach Digital Arts and coordinate the Electronic Media, Art and Technology Major at the University of Tampa. His works have been shown at several international venues, festivals and galleries. He is mostly interested in non-linear narration, video-art, performance art, interactivity and web experimentation.
Octobre 1992
Santiago Echeverry es egresado de la primera promoción de la Carrera de Cine y Televisión de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Desde muy temprano se dedicó a la exploración de las posibilidades creativas del video, la performancia y las tecnologías digitales, exhibiendo sus obras desde 1989. En 1995 obtuvo la beca Fulbright y recibió su Maestría en Telecomunicaciones Interactivas en NYU. Se especializó en producción y programación de sitios web y desde entonces se ha dedicado a diseñar proyectos en línea profesional y artísticamente. Reside en los EEUU desde 2003, en donde se ha concentrado principalmente en el desarrollo de videos e instalaciones interactivas, participando en festivales internacionales tales como Siggraph, FILE y el Japan Media Arts Festival, entre otros. Actualmente es Profesor Asociado de Arte Digital en la Universidad de Tampa, en la Florida, y Profesor Visitante en la Especialización en Creación Multimedia de la Universidad de Los Andes, en Bogotá.