Gustavo Romano
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By diverting everyday objects or technological mechanisms from their usual function, Gustavo Romano explores the routine and the role of the subject in a society of control strengthened by the new information technologies.
He is an artist and curator who works in a variety of media including actions, video, installations, net art and new media.
He has participated in numerous international contemporary art events such as the VII Biennial of Havana; the First Singapore Biennale; the II Mercosur Biennial; the First Biennial of the End of the World, Ushuaia; Videonale 11, Bonn; Transmediale 03 Berlin; Ars Electronica 97, Vienna; Madrid Abierto; Transitio MX. He has made individual exhibitions at the MEIAC in Badajoz, Spain, the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, the Ruth Benzacar Gallery, the Recoleta Cultural Center, among others.
In 1995 he founded the Fin del Mundo website, one of the first platforms for the exhibition and diffusion of net art in Latin America.
As curator, he is responsible for the NETescopio project, archive of works of net art and digital art of the MEIAC of Badajoz, Spain. He co-directs the "Puerto80" platform, a virtual space for reflection on art and culture in a post-Internet context.
He has received numerous awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship or the Fundación Telefónica Life Award. Born in Buenos Aires, he lives and works in Madrid.
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The Channel 01 project is invited to participate in this exhibition at El Parqueadero, Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia del Banco de la República. Bogotá, Colombia, as part of the Hard Disk Museum.
The Channel 01 project participates in the 2023/24 edition of this biennial, in the pavilion "NET ART DIED BUT IS DOING WELL", curated by Fabio FON and Soraya Braz.
The Time Notes Bank project is invited to participate in this international touring exhibition at Uferhallen, Berlín, from may to july, 2023
The Time Notes Bank project is invited to participate in this meeting in Mexico City, February 2023.
The projects Channel 01 and Hyperbody participate in this exhibition at the Panke Gallery, Berlin. September 14 - November 06, 2022
The project Channel 01 was selected to participate in the 2021 edition of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of South America
The Hyperbody project participates in the exhibition "Artists and machines. Dialogues in the development of digital art" at the CCCC Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain. From 17 December 2021 to 20 March 2022.
Curator of the exhibition that incorporates more than 15 works to the NETescopio archive along with others from the MEIAC collection, on the occasion of the museum's 25 years. February 2021
Development of a desktop version (due to the blocking of the Flash plugin in Internet browsers). January 2021
New net art project:"Today's world requires you to adapt to the time framework of machines." June 2020
Publication of a catalog of illustrations by Gustavo Romano on computing, science and technology for Clarín's Si supplement, between 1989 and 1993.
Art actions in public spaces of the city of Casablanca, Morocco. With the sponsorship of the Community of Madrid and the help of the Cervantes de Cablanca Institute. November 2018
Installation and actions in public spaces of the city of Bogotá, Colombia. International Documentary Exhibition of Bogotá. September 2018
Participation with IP Poetry in this electronic literature exhibition organized by the Casa del Lector, the Complutense University of Madrid and Elite (Literary Edition) Reader's House, Matadero, Madrid. June 2018
Time Notes participates in the exhibition based on the homonymous book by Jaques Attali. National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. March 2018
Artistic action developed in schools and educational institutions of the city, the framework of Immersions X. December 2017
Public art action developed in the framework of the Cáceres Open event, touring different parts of the city. June 2017
Cyberzoo is part of this show at Carroll Fletcher, London. March 2016
Action for the show Examples to Follow. July 2016
Time Notes is part of this show in exhibition spaces in Schwerin, Rostock and Bröllin, Germany. July and August 2016.
Time Notes is included in the exhibition based on the book of Jaques Attali. Palazzo Reale di Milano, 2016.
Ciberpoetry and net instalation. Site specific intervention with works by Gustavo Romanoand Jan Robert Leegte. Centro de cultura Digital. México DF. 2015
Intervention and live performance. IP Poetry Project Casa del Lago, México DF. October 2015.
Time Notes participates in this show based on Jaques Attali`s book. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Brussels. 2015
ongoing projects
"Channel 01 special report to discover the visionaries who laid the foundations of digital technology in the world since the end of the 19th century." Entirely made with Artificial Intelligence tools, the project, while questioning the dynamics of the media, establishes a series of alternative timelines and unfinished utopias that were triggered by the irruption of electricity and new technologies a little over a century ago..
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Net Art. AI generated. Since 2023.
Channel 01 presents itself as an automatic audiovisual news channel, based on artificial intelligence algorithms. Channel 01 captures, reorganises and broadcasts a cascade of possible worlds, of alternative, dystopian, dreamlike events, resulting in an uncomfortable portrait, no longer of our reality, but of our fears or desires.
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Net Art. Automatic online broadcaster. Since 2021.
Time Notes Bank
Time Notes Bank has worked on implementing a new currency system, which, rather than use monetary conventions based on the accumulation of capital, uses temporal units: minutes, days, years. Offices and other performances have been set up in many cities of Europe, America and Asia. The actions refer to different local and global issues: the exchange systems, the over-employment and unemployment, the increasing virtualization of the economy, and the existential relationship of the human being with his own lifetime.
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Actions. Interventions. Videos. Photographies. Internet. Since 2004
Puerto80
Puerto 80 LAB is a platform that promotes research on the interconnections between technology and culture, especially in art and literature. Among its projects is the Database of Expanded Scriptures / Experimental Literature / Digital Poetics and Cuadernos Puerto80 magazine, which publishes two issues by year.
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Since 2019
An exhibition that incorporates more than 15 works from the NETescopio archive together with others from the MEIAC collection, on the occasion of the museum's 25th anniversary.
MEIAC of Badajoz, Spain
(February to May 2021)
Incorporation of the Turbulence archive into the MEIAC digital art collection
MEIAC of Badajoz, (March and April 2018)
Selection of works from the contemporary art collection of the MEIAC of Badajoz
(from August 2016 to January 2017)
Exhibition focused on works of art and technology, interactive works, with new media and digital art. CentroCentro Madrid
(May to September 2016)
Net Art and digital art. Cultural centers of Spain in Latin America (touring exhibition 2016-2017)
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Publication of a catalog of illustrations by Gustavo Romano on computing, science and technology for Clarín's Si supplement, between 1989 and 1993.
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net art projects
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Reports broadcast by Channel 01 artificially generated and with virtual anchors. | 2023
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Produced entirely with AI tools, this project resonates echoes of Russian cosmism, variantology or futuristic utopias. | 2023
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Automatic audiovisual channel, based on artificial "counter-intelligence" algorithms. | 2021
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"Today's world requires you to adapt to the time framework of machines" | 2020
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Interventions to a dataset of fine art master pieces using the Microsoft's API Emotions algorithm | 2018
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Artistic intervention to the first manifesto of futurism. | 2016
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Ciberpoetry. Device for electronic performances, net-installations and digital poetry.
Since 2004.
Microworld Network
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1995-2010
Net Art
Pocketlog
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Net art, fotolog, action, installation | 2004 al 2009
Photographic report on Dorkbot SL #1
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Net art, action in Second Life
2007
Sky Blue and White
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Net instalation, webcam streaming | 2007 (Work in progress)
Gloria y honor (Glory and Honor)
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Fotolog. Action | 2008
Pieza Privada Nº1 (Private Piece #1)
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2005
Net Art
Experimental Suite
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1995/2005
Net Art
Shifters
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1997
CD ROM and interactive installation
