Born in Puerto Natales, surrounded by beautiful wild landscapes, always the mountain was the link of her life. Mountaineer, tour guide, craftswoman, mother, all different aspects of her life linked deeply with Nature as an inspiration and refugee. Now exploring the conexion of geological processes and the internal and spiritual human dimensions, with the objective of expanding knowledge in a new and experiental way. Searching to restore the bond between humanity and the Earth.
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Thierry Dupradou (FR)
Studied photography between 2001 and 2006 at the Les Fleurs Youth Center, in Pau, France. In the summer of 2000 he got to know Patagonia and in 2006 he settled in Punta Arenas. Since 2002 he has exhibited individually in France, Spain and Chile. One of those samples is from 2011, when part of his work is exhibited in the Montjuic Castle, Barcelona, Spain. He conducts heritage records with archaeological researchers. In 2015 he works as director of photography in the feature film “Fuego” and participates as a photographer in an INACH expedition in Antarctica.
Mirko Petrovich (CL)
Musician and researcher. Born in 1976 in the city of Osorno, Chile. He studied sound engineering at the Universidad Tecnológica Vicente Perez Rosales. He has worked producing multimedia for several theater and dance projects in Chile and abroad.
He worked at the Shanghai Expo as a multimedia designer for the Chilean Pavilion, and has been technical director and curatorial advisor for the Media Arts Biennial in Chile.
As a musician and media artist he has presented his work in different cities like Berlin, Vienna, Paris, New York and Santiago.
Alessandra Burotto (CL)
Alessandra Burotto, is curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of Chile, where she coordinates the MediaMAC/Anilla Unit area dedicated to putting value in artistic practices and languages that use technologies, helping to promote the field of media arts at the crossroads between art and science, technology, nature and society.
Journalist and graduated in Cultural Criticism from the University of Chile, for 10 years she has led the Ibero-American Network Anilla Cultural Latin America-Europe for the MAC, an international instance dedicated to the development of new museum formats and methodologies for contemporary cultural action through the intensive use of new information and communication technologies.
Sofia Balbontin (CL)
Sofía Balbontín, architect and sound artist, co-director of the Resonant Spaces project and member of the Nucleo de Lenguaje y Creación UDLA. Herwork is mainly focused on the interaction between sound and space, developing from this starting point experimental proposals around music, video, performance and installation. She is currently doing a PhD in Arts at the University of Lisbon.
www.sofiabalbontin.com
Julio Contreras (CL)
Magallanic, son of Chilotes. Since childhood living in the southern territories and Tierra del Fuego and knowing directly the lives of sheepherders and fishermen in Chiloé communities.
As a student he participated in resistance struggles against the Pinochet dictatorship. As a medical doctor since 1986 he has always sought to ensure that human health expresses the expansion of the full potential of life. Formally, he has studied various currents of biological psychiatry and has a master’s degree in psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology from the University of Uruguay. Since 1997, he has been developing a conservation project in Caleta María, together with his family, friends and nature lovers; an option to build a cooperative and communal life in these Fuegian territories with the mountains, the multiple and diverse life of the forests, the seas, the wind and the spirits of the original inhabitants.
Melanie Duclos Katunaric (CL)
MS in Ecosystem Health, PhD (c) in Conservation Medicine. She is a researcher at the Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability – CAPES, of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile; and at the Center for Research for Sustainability – CIS of the Andrés Bello University in Santiago, Chile. Her lines of research are ecology, ecotoxicology, genetics and health of wild populations.
Paula Lopez Wood (CL)
Writer and Explorer, Paula Lopez (1987) graduated from Audiovisual Direction and Aesthetics in Universidad Católica de Chile, and also has an MFA in Creative Writing at New York University. Her work has been published in several Chilean magazines and digital media (El Mercurio, Ladera Sur, Escalando), also international press like Desnivel (Spain), The Explorers Journal (New York) and she has written and produced documentaries series on Chilean natural history (Wood Producciones). Her storytelling has focused on sharing with passion and deep knowledge the wilderness of the southernmost territories of Chile and Antarctica.
Dominga del Campo (CL)
director of Estudio de Campo, is a dancer, aesthetic and explorer. She graduated from Aesthetics in Universidad Católica de Chile and studied dance at ENA (Escuela Nacional de las Artes) in Cuba. Estudio de Campo (Field studies), is a laboratory for scenic, architecture, and life practices. Today it is based in a historic warehouse in Barrio Huemul, Santiago. Sometimes Estudio de Campo acts as a collective, sometimes as a thoughtful organ for “other solutions”, including all kinds of sensitive bodies and materials, both human and non-human, animals and spirits, in the processes of affection and significance within the landscape.
Gerd Sielfeld (CL)
dedicated to understand the nature of deformation in the Andes mountain range, Gerd works by combining perspectives of structural and seismotectonic geology. With experience in active volcanic chains (Southern Andes and Southern Andes), he is the scientific coordinator of the Prisma Austral Foundation, developing a multidisciplinary approach in the canals and fjords of the Magallanes region, bringing together teams of biology, geophysics, geology, art and archeology. He has participated in the creation of documentary series for the dissemination of earth sciences and has collaborated with artists in the creation of the first scientific mural in Chile.
Its fundamental motivation is the creation of knowledge for the responsible conservation of pristine land- and seascapes.