Maite Cajaraville

(Llerena, 1967)

Multidisciplinary artist specialized in electronic art, performance, audiovisual and installation. Their works seek to subvert social imaginaries through interaction with the public and bring the works closer to everyday spaces. Since the 90s, he has combined his artistic production with curatorial commissions. Since 2014, she has been curator of the Piksel festival focused on electronic art and digital freedom, emphasizing the use of free technologies. Along with Piksel Produksjoner, other initiatives have seen the light such as TransPiksel, and Pulse Projects, Piksel Fest Spill. She is one of the founders of LaptopsRus / CrisisRus, a network of female performers. In the 90s Cajaraville built the Spanish Conexión.Madrid node of the pioneering “International City Network”, which connected artists from the EU through the Internet. During these years, he also founded the platform for video creators called Peninsulares Video with the sponsorship of INJUVE, the Youth Institute. She is a professor at the Camilo Jose Cela University of Media Art within the Cinema degree (from 2014 to 2017). Among her international exhibitions, the following stand out: 2018: La Nadadora, Pompidou Center in Málaga, 2017: The Virgin Doesn't Come to See Me, Cáceres , 2016: CrisisRuS, Intermediae/Matadero Madrid (Spain), NSA, African Photography Initiatives, Cameroon; FROM DNA TO NSA, Pikslaverk, Iceland, Digital IA, Poland, Renewable Futures, RIXC, Latvia, Centro Centro, Madrid; 2015; “NETSCOPIO”, Arte Alameda, Mexico DF, 2013; “A Vladi Tale”, North Ossetia, 2012; “GOD, Garden of Delights” Media Facades European Festival, 2012, 2010; “MEETING|REUNION” Reina Sofía National Art Museum, Medialab-Prado and Matadero Madrid, 2010, “The (UN)Real Site”, Royal Palace of Aranjuez, Madrid, 2007; “The swimmer”, MEIAC in 2006; “New Europe”, Venice Biennale; “Flux of Influences”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; “UPDATE”, Copenhagen 1997; “V Cyberconf”, Telefónica Foundation, Madrid; “Sónar”, MACBA, Barcelona; “Everything flows: Spanish infographics”, Reina Sofía Art Center, Madrid.

He has participated in Medialab Madrid within the framework of conferences, meetings and presentations with his project Visiones de Ciudad: Madrid. This multidisciplinary project proposes to know the city of Madrid from the perspective of its inhabitants, as a first step to try to recover a dynamic and vital public space, which functions as a meeting point and as an expression of the needs of citizens.