FERNANDO VELÁZQUEZ

Fernando Velázquez is an artist, curator and teacher. He investigates technical devices as mediating agents of perception and in their structuring relationship with current paradigms, particularly techno-solutionism, the Anthropocene and decolonial studies. His work includes installations, objects, videos, audiovisual performances and images created with algorithmic resources that seek to involve the viewer in paradoxical, hyperbolic and ritualistic narratives. She holds a master's degree in Fashion, Art and Culture from Senac-SP and has diplomas in On and Off-line Video and Technologies (Mecad-BCN) and Contemporary Cultural Management (Itaú Cultural/Singularidades). He has received several awards, including the Sergio Motta Art and Technology Award (Brazil, 2009), the Fundo para a Cultura (Uruguay, 2019) and the Vida Artificial Award (Spain, 2008). He exhibited his work in institutions such as Center Pompidou (France), Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University (USA) and Itaú Cultural (Brazil). He participated in the Bienal do Mercosul (Brazil) and the WRO Bienal (Poland) and did residency at IRCAM/Pompidou and MC 93 (Paris) among others. He has given lectures, workshops and conferences at institutions such as Stony Brook University (NY, USA), Queen's University (Kingston, Canada) and the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL). From 2015 to 2018, he served as curator and artistic director of Red Bull Station in São Paulo.





























“The research and artistic production of Fernando Velázquez has been widespread in the field of digital visuality and artificial intelligence for almost two decades. Known for moving image surfaces with great technological aesthetic appeal, his works however result from critical, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural investigations. Velázquez studied architecture, music, and fine arts in Uruguay, but obtained a degree in Multimedia Design upon migrating to Brazil. Professor, curator and essayist, his production as a whole reflects a diverse body of thought based on a critical view of technology and capitalism, and knowledge of ancestral cultures, among others.”

Daniela Labra
About Iceberg Anthropobscene, 2022.

“Fernando Velázquez, Uruguayan by birth, Brazilian by adoption, is one of the Latin American artists with the greatest potential for projection on the international scene today. The last
ten years of his trajectory reveal his solid training in the artistic and technological world. “

Maria Maneiro
Dardo Magazine N25, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2014.


A researcher with a handful of languages – artistic and programming –, he recently deployed a drone (unmanned flying object) to capture images for his installation Reconhecimento de Padrãos, presented at the Museu de Arte Moderna de Goiânia, in 2014. The images are always activated that a visitor approaches through a region recognition system ​(blob detection). In summary, machinic eyes, vigilant systems, transformed into poetic magnifying glasses. In the words of Lucas Bambozzi in the critical text of the catalogue:

Seeing – and understanding – is now increasingly relegated to the device. But the inclusion of time, either in mental images or in those technically created by man, demands efforts to memorize their sequence. Now the image also perceives me. It alters and resignifies itself on its surface, in its temporality. It's up to us to enjoy.

Giselle Beiguelman
Select Magazine, 2014


Fernando Velázquez is an artist, curator and teacher. It investigates technical devices as mediating agents of perception and in their structuring relationship with current paradigms, particularly techno-solutionism, the Anthropocene and decolonial studies. His work includes installations, objects, videos, audiovisual performances and images created with algorithmic resources that seek to involve the viewer in paradoxical, hyperbolic and ritualistic narratives. She holds a master's degree in Fashion, Art and Culture from Senac-SP and has diplomas in On and Off-line Video and Technologies (Mecad-BCN) and Contemporary Cultural Management (Itaú Cultural/Singularidades). He has received several awards, including the Sergio Motta Art and Technology Award (Brazil, 2009), the Fundo para a Cultura (Uruguay, 2019) and the Vida Artificial Award (Spain, 2008). He exhibited his work in institutions such as Center Pompidou (France), Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University (USA) and Itaú Cultural (Brazil). He participated in the Bienal do Mercosul (Brazil) and the WRO Bienal (Poland) and did residency at IRCAM/Pompidou and MC 93 (Paris) among others. He has given lectures, workshops and conferences at institutions such as Stony Brook University (NY, USA), Queen's University (Kingston, Canada) and the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL). From 2015 to 2018, he served as curator and artistic director of Red Bull Station in São Paulo.


Current and future exhibitions

Out of this world
| 11-24/09 | Lyon Dance Biennale | collaboration with Qudus Onikeku | Lyon - France
Realities and simulacrum | 22-07 | Collective Exhibition | MAM | Sao Paulo - Brazil | curated by: Marcus Bastos and Cauê Alves
Africa: Dialogues with the Contemporary
| 15-06 | Collective Exhibition | MON | Curitiba-PR, Brazil | curated by: Paula Braga and Renato Araújo
Out of this world | 06-11/8 | Installation/performance | collaboration with Qudus Onikeku | Centre Pompidou | Paris - France
Light Year | 13/05 - 25/06
| Collective Exhibition | Hi Future | Rio de Janeiro - Brazil | curated by: Paula Perisinotto and Ricardo Barreto
Abstraction in Movement
| 01/04 - 20/11 | Collective Exhibition | Maca - Atchugarry Museum of Contemporary Art | Manantiales-Uruguay | curated by: Martín Craciún
Narratives and fictions: other stories, decolonial perspectives
| 04/01 | Launch of the MAM-RS Collector's Club | Sp Art | Sao Paulo - Brazil | curated by: Daniela Bousso


Materiais on-line
Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural
UDESC Magaizne
Select Magazine
Commonplace
alt/AV Network
Archdaily
ArtNext:Interactive projections and art
Arte1: art and technology
Emoção art.ficial Biennial, Itaú Cultural
Reinos: a/v performance, ItaúCultural
Factors 8.0, art, science and technology festival
Latin American Connection: Cine UEM invites Fernando Velázquez
Curating Academy  
Rastilho Encruzilhada: Kiko Dinucci e Fernando Velázquez Farol Santander
Tallks about curatorship: UFES
FILE: Supercreativity
Vototalks: Art and Transdisciplinarity
Museu do Amanhã: Art of tomorrow





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