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Esther Pizarro
ArtistEsther Pizarro (Madrid, 1967) is an artist, holds a PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid, and is a professor at the European University of Madrid. Her research focuses on the city and on how people move through, perceive and identify with urban spaces. Through series exploring mobility maps, cognitive cartographies, imagined topographies and architectural prostheses, she investigates the relationship between the body, landscape and the urban environment. Her most recent installations address the complexity of contemporary cities through the visualisation of data related to mobility, connectivity and urban systems, as well as the relationship between the city and nature. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York, the Spanish Academy in Rome and the Colegio de España in Paris. Her work has been exhibited at institutions in Spain and internationally, and is held in collections including IVAM and the Spanish Academy in Rome.
Neocartographies. Complex Landscapes explores complexity theory and complex thought and their application to understanding the contemporary city through network visualisation in multimedia art installations.
On the theoretical side, the research examines the origins and evolution of complex thought from an epistemological perspective, analyses the methodologies and tools used to generate visualisation patterns and models, and applies the findings to the study of contemporary cities in order to create a dynamic neocartography of urban environments.
From an artistic production perspective, the research applies the results of the theoretical phase to develop a method capable of articulating the underlying complexity of today’s cities. Two of the author’s art installations serve as case studies, illustrating the evolution of her approach to the contemporary urban environment.
