Varvara Guljajeva is an artist from Estonia. She works with art, people, technology and its materials. Her experimentation is focused on the participatory arts, interactive installations and kinetic sculptures. She frequently works on her own reflection of society, the environment and the cyber-identity. Varvara combines her creativity with teaching the Interface of Sculptures in Art at Linz University and has imparted workshops in many countries.

Mar Canet focuses his activity in the artistic visualization of different types of data with a technological basis. He shares his creative activity with many artistic groups surrounding art and the new means, contributing his vision, sometimes ironic and sometimes esthetic on the different types of data.

Varvara and Mar’s associated work is created focused on the excessive saturation of today’s information. They handle details of different typologies to give new displays of these on a light, sound or installation level of a different nature.

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES:

2011 EMARE Artist in Residency at FACT Liverpool, UK (July-Oct)

2011 Guest Researcher at IAMAS, Japan (May-July)

2011 Collaborative Research Residency at FFKD in Copenhagen (April)

2010 Jury Prize for media art installation at 23rd Stuttgarter Filmwinter (20. 30.01.2010, Germany)

2009 Asia-Europe Foundation commission 2008 Art Camp, Ludic Games (21. – 30.07.08 ISEA, Singapore)

2008 special prize at Time Warp, International Music and Media Festival

2007 – 2008 DAAD Master studies’ grant

2006 – 2008 Bockholdt Master studies’ grant

EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES: 

2011 Execution #X (17-21.06.11 solo exhibition at IAMAS OS, Ogaki, Japan)

2011 RepairStation (20.05.11 a-day action, FFKD, Copenhagen, Denmark)

2011 Enter5 (14.-23.04.11 CIANT, Prague Czech Republic)

2011 LiveHerring11 (08.04-08.06.11 Saarijärvi, Finland)

2010 Kiblix Festival (18.-28.11.10 Kibla Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia)

2010 UAMO Festival (21.-24.10.10 München, Germany)

2010 White Night (02.10.10 Skopje, Macedonia)

2010 “Playful Interfaces”, Ars Electronica09 Campus exhibition (02.-11.09.10, Linz)

2010 “Final Show of Labor for Electronic Music and New Media Linz”, sound Art performance at STWST Media Linz (30.06.2010, Linz, Austria)

2010 “El Festival Internacional de la Imagen”, Universidad de Caldas (13.-17.04.10, Colombia)

2010 “Love The Robot Show”, online performance, DOCK18, Zürich

2010 23rd Stuttgarter Filmwinter (20.-30.01.2010, Germany)

2009 “Royal Interface Cultures Masquerade Ball”, Ars Electronica09 Campus exhibition (03.- 08.09.09, Linz, Austria)

2009 “Fantasmarama”, group exhibition (02.-07.09.09, Linz, Austria)

2009 International Media Art Festival Cellsbutton#3 (01.-08.08.09, Yogiyakarta, Indonesia)

2009 “Death Bricks”, solo exhibition in collaboration with Derivart, Rocaumbert art centre (Granolles, Spain, 14.05-26.06.09)

2009 “Sound Machine”, Time’s Up (Linz, Austria 30.04.09)

2008 “ANTIVIRUS” - solo exhibition/performance (Lübeck, Germany)