Bio
S O L I M Á N L Ó P E Z
Contemporary artist specialized in art, science, sociology and technology.
Founder of Harddiskmuseum, OLEA crytocurrency and Innovation director at ESAT (Escuela Superior de Arte y Tecnología).
Solimán López, born in Burgos, Spain in 1981, develops his artistic production between his studio in Paris, France (UAS, Updated Art Studio) and ESAT LAB, Innovation department that he runs at ESAT, Escuela Superior de Arte y Tecnología de Valencia, Spain.
His career as an art historian and master’s degree in Art and Communication have conditioned his artistic evolution towards what we could call conceptual technological art.
His work with the meaning and nature of digital archives, as shown by some pieces such as the Harddiskmuseum, an art museum on a hard disk, Framed Memory Card, Host-in, Langpath or File Genesis or more recent works in which virtual and analog worlds are connected through photogrammetry as in High Meshes, are examples of his interest in human presence and its impact in this era of communication and digitalization.
In line with this breaking down of the two frontiers, we can find pieces such as GRID, an audiovisual symphony modulated in real time by the wifi signal of nearby devices, Celeste, which connects the digitised skies of different places in the world also, in real time, or Bioma, a sculpture that creates digital abstractions through biometric data of its environment.
Technically, his works are achieved thanks to the combination of 3D techniques, electronics, software programming, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality and digital synchronization.
His career has been built on festivals, biennials, art centers, events and museums in Spain, USA. U, China, South Korea, France, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Greece, Uruguay, Germany, England, Italy, Portugal and Switzerland among other locations, highlighting the events of the Biennial of Digital Art in Brazil, the Biennial Nemo de Paris (Variations Art Fair), the Chronus Art Center in Shanghai, ISSEA 2019, the ZKM of Karlsruhe, Art Santa Mónica of Barcelona, the CCCC of Valencia, the IVAM of Valencia, Etopia of Zaragoza, the CAB of Burgos, the CEART of Fuenlabrada in Madrid, La Lonja of Alicante, Cigarreras of Alicante, CAC of Málaga, Es Baluard museum of Mallorca or the Nuit Blanche of Paris 2019.
His work as a researcher in new media has been shared in several universities such as the UFSM in Brazil, the University Carlos III in Madrid, the Google Campus in Madrid, the UPV in Valencia, the Bancaja Fundación, the Injuve, TEDx Valladolid, the Universidad de Cuenca, the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, MediaLab Prado, Madrid or Technarte Bilbao, among others.
Among his most recent projects is the development of DAI, an identity document built by an artificial intelligence, which gives rise to a new imaginary of culture, society and humanity in the XXI century.
Solo Exhibitions
2022
2022
2020
2019
2018
2017
• CELESTE, SCAN ROOM London. UK.
• Bridges to Steganos. Internet Moon Gallery. Netart.
• File Genesis. Etopia Art for Art and Technology. Zaragoza.
• CELESTE. Veles e Vents. Valencia. The ReCollector. Mi* Galerie. Paris.
• CELESTE. Point Ephémère. Paris. File Genesis. Centre del Carmen. Valencia.
• Harddiskmuseum. Arts Santa Monica. Barcelona.
2016
• File Genesis. Centre del Carmen. Valencia.
• Harddiskmuseum Live Session V.06. MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
• Harddiskmuseum Live Session V.05. Museo de BBAA Palacio Evita Ferreyra, Córdoba, Argentina.
• Harddiskmuseum Live Session V.04. Museo de BBAA y Artistas Contemporáneos Timoteo Navarro, Tucumán, Argentina.
• Gutenberg Discontinuity. UNESP. Campus Assis. Brazil.
• Harddiskmuseum. Live Session V.03. Desing+ Art, Science and Technology. UFSM. Santa María. Brazil.
• Harddiskmuseum Live Session V.02. Technarte, Bilbao.
• More than 404. Online art action.
• Harddiskmuseum Live Session V.01. Las Naves Centro de Creación Contemporánea.
• Tecnometrías. IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno).
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
• Nothing to say. Festival Óptica. Filmoteca Andalucía. Córdoba.
2009
• Worldwide Cube. Eutopía Festival.
Talks and workshop invitations (Selection)
• Arte, comunicación y estrategias publicitarias en las nuevas narrativas transmedia. Jornadas de experimentación creativa. Universidad Francisco de Vitoria. Madrid.
• Workshop. Digitalizando el mundo. Etopia Center for Art and Technology. Zaragoza.
• Workshop. Site specific VR. Etopia Center for Art and Technology. Zaragoza.
• Conservación, divulgación y nuevas prácticas artísticas. Etopia Center for Art and Technology. Zaragoza.
• Nuevas experiencias culturales: el impacto de lo virtual. Semana de la Cultura digital. Universidad Carlos III. Medialab Prado, Madrid.
• Dataismo. Seminario de narrativas Hipertexturales. Montevideo (Uruguay)-Valencia (Spain).
• Dataismo. Art and Speculative Futures. CCCB. Barcelona.
• Dataism conference. Pizza&Tech. MAC. Bahía Blanca. Argentina.
• Dataism conference. Design+ Art, Science and Technology. UFSM. Santa María. Brazil.
• Virtual Reality Workshop. Design+ Art, Science and Technology. UFSM. Santa María. Brazil.
• Conference in Technarte Bilbao. Art as an information repository. Infomaniac.
• Talk Festival Digitall. Photogrammetry.
• Talk IVAM about Art and Technology.
• Photogrammetry and 3D scanning workshop. Festival Brieffestival. Medialab Prado. Ma- drid.
• Talk in IVAM, Valencia about ANT Show in Punto Gallery.
• Talk in Fundación Bancaja about new tech and Picasso.
• TEDTalk in TEDx Valladolid.
• Pechakucha Valencia about Harddiskmusuem.
• Identidades inalcanzables workshop. Sala Amadis. Injuve. Madrid.
• 3D web spaces Master Class. IFAB. UPV. Valencia.
• CAAC Cuenca. Jornadas sobre colecciones y archivos de arte contemporáneo.
Collective Exhibitions
2022
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
• Proyector International Videoart Festival. Espacio Nadie Nunca Nada No.
• Technarte Bilbao. Harddiskmuseum.
• UPHO Festival. Málaga.
• JustTech en JustMad7. Artista invitado. Galería Punto.
• El barco de Teseo. Universidad de León. España.
• El barco de Teseo. CCE Nicaragua.
• El barco de Teseo. CCE El Salvador.
• El barco de Teseo. CCE Mexico.
2015
2014
2012
2011
2010
