IVOR DIOSI
at Science/Creation/Art/Research/Technology Center
I am an internationally recognized, award-winning cybershaman and Dasein-alchemist. I operate at the intersections of art, science and new technologies, in the fields of neurocinema, bio-art and hybrid art, using mixed realities, machine vision, artificial life, simulacra, synthetic and virtual entities.
My main obsessions are identity, the existence of space-time, the emergence of organic life and consciousness. My works and installations are renown for merging biomorph and evolutionary aesthetic, scientific knowledge, technical sophistication, strong critical concepts, and powerplay with the processes of observation and perception.
Working since 1989 (C64 demoscene) and exhibiting hybrid art internationally since 1997 at over a hundred venues, festivals, museums and galleries around the world, including ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, The LUMEN Prize World Tour (2014-15), NESTA/FutureFest London, Fundación Telefónica VIDA / ARCO Art Fair Madrid, Japan Media Arts Festival / Metropolitan Museum of Photography Tokyo, CyNETART Dresden, Ars Electronica Linz, transmediale Berlin, ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Art ('08 Singapore), New York Institute of Technology, Kinetica London, amber Art and Technology Festival Istanbul, VIPER Basel, SVA NYDS New York Digital Salon, and ENTER Festival Prague.
I have received a number of international awards and distinctions, most notably the prestigious CyNETART / Stiftung für Kunst & Kultur International Award (DE), an Artistic Production Incentive endowed by Fundación Telefónica (ES), Nominations at ZKM International Media Art Awards (DE) and ACA Media Arts Awards Japan, a World Tour Selection at LUMEN Prize 'The Global Award for Digital Art', honorable mentions at VIDA Art and Artificial Life International Awards (ES) and transmediale (DE)