Influenza

Net.art collective formed by Raquel Rennó and Rafael Marchetti. Raquel Rennó is a doctor in Communication and Semiotics, a member of the Work Group "Etnografia dels Espais Públics" (ICA) and a researcher at the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPQ, Brazil) on urban spaces, social networks and media environments. Lives and works in Barcelona. He has been a resident artist at CYPRES – Center Interculturel de Pratiques Recherches et Echanges Transdisciplinaires in 2004 and MedialabMadrid in 2005, and his projects have been awarded at FILE (2004) or Prog:me (2005). Influenza's artwork has been exhibited, among others, at ACM Multimedia (Singapore); FILE (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro); Tohu Bohu Gallery (Marseille), Comafosca, Nuevas Geografias (Mexico); Accea (Armenia); Break 2.3 (Ljubljana); Viper (Basel); VII Digital Art Salon in Havana and at ARS Electronica (Linz).
Rafael Marchetti is an artist who graduated [1997] from the Manuel Belgrano National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, and in 1994 he won first place in the "Third Salon of Art, Buenos Aires" in the sculpture category. Years later he began his artistic production with electronic media in São Paulo, Brazil, breaking out with the web.art piece Influenza Skin, which was awarded the Sergio Motta Prize for Art and Technology (2002). He is co-founder of the groups: Influenza [2001-2005] and Preguiza Febril [2004]. He is a collaborator and consultant of the Banquete Cultural Association. He has been a resident artist at CYPRES – Center Interculturel de Pratiques Recherches et Echanges Transdisciplinaires in 2004 and MedialabMadrid in 2005, and his projects have been awarded at FILE (2004) or Prog:me (2005). Influenza's artwork has been exhibited, among others, at ACM Multimedia (Singapore); FILE (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro); Tohu Bohu Gallery (Marseille), Comafosca, Nuevas Geografias (Mexico); Accea (Armenia); Break 2.3 (Ljubljana); Viper (Basel); VII Digital Art Salon in Havana and at ARS Electronica (Linz).

They have participated in Medialab Madrid with the interactive installation Madrid Mousaic (2005), the project works at an abstract level on the configuration of the city from a raw mass with which an aesthetic and semantic set is projected, mixing "real" sounds and images to create new combinations that generate a result between the symbolic and the abstract.