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.
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.
Claudia Augustat (AT)
Claudia Augustat is an anthropologist and since 2004 curator for South American Collections at the Weltmuseum Wien in Austria. Her research focuses on collections from the Amazon and Tierra del Fuego, material culture and cultural memory, on collaborative curatorship and the decolonization of museum praxis. She is head of the EU co-founded Creative Europe Project TAKING CARE. Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Space of Care.
Raviv Ganchrow (US/IL/NL)
is an artist and sound researcher based in Amsterdam, NL. His work researches the interdependencies between sound, place and listening, aspects of which are explored through installations, writing, and the development of pressure-forming and vibration-sensing technologies. His installations examine context-dependent sites of contemporary listening relating to environmental infrasound (Long-Wave Synthesis, Dark Ecology, Kirkeness, NO and Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, NL), mineral piezoelectricity (Quartz Attention, Hyperobjects, Ballroom Marfa, Texas, USA), anechoic chambers (Padded Sounds, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, DE) and materiality of radio transmission (Radio Plays Itself, Forecast for Shipping and Knallfunken) in collaboration with ORF Kunstradio, AT, BBC Radio 4, UK, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur respectively, DE. Recent installations develop in-situ circuits relating to human-mineral binds (Agora Circuit, Tuned City / Onassis Cultural Foundation, Messene, GR) and telluric currents (Westhafen Ground-Electric, Singuhr at ZK/U Berlin, DE). Raviv Ganchrow is currently a faculty member at the Institute of Sonology, University of the Arts, The Hague, NL.
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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.
Angélica Castelló (MX/AT)
Her sound work and compositions concentrates on fragility, dreamworld and the subconscious. Performs continuously solo or in cooperations everywhere between Mexico City and Vienna. Numerous compositions for ensembles, radio works as well as installations that operate at the interface of music, performance and visual arts. Several releases on labels like Interstellar records, Mikroton recordings, Monotype records, Mosz, chamafu nocords, Orlando Records, einklang_records, Mandorla Label, Thalamos, upside down records etc.
Diego Cortés (CL)
Technician in Plastic Arts and Design with a specialty in artistic casting and electroplating. He has worked on various artistic installations in Chile, Spain, and Switzerland. He has participated in different designs and installations of Terra Ignota, including the ‘wind oscillators,’ their field test installation; the ‘oscillator,’ the version powered by industrial motors of the ‘wind oscillators’; and the design and testing of the hanging system for the ‘Rocks’ installation. He was also in charge of assembling pieces and museography for the first homonymous exhibition of the project at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago. His specialty is the design, assembly, and testing of experimental metal and mechanical pieces with extensive experience in technical project development for artists, architects, and designers.