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Patxi Araujo
ArtistPatxi Araujo is an artist, educator, and researcher, and a tenured professor in the Department of Sculpture and Art and Technology at the UPV/EHU School of Fine Arts. His work focuses on new media and explores the relationship between the human and the technological through installations and projects that incorporate programming, robotics, simulation, and artificial life. His works have been presented at various national and international festivals and art events, and his theoretical research has been published in specialized journals.
The Trained Particles Circus presents a hybrid space between the real and virtual worlds, inspired by the figure of the flea tamer and transposed into the context of digital technologies. The installation establishes a relationship between synthetic biomechanics and an automaton to create a kind of contemporary circus spectacle, where light and shadow, physical and virtual reality, machine and organism intermingle. The project invites the viewer to stand before these hybrid and augmented subjects, questioning the boundaries between the artificial and the living. In 2018, the work received first prize in the EX experimental electronic art competition.
