Mariano Maturana

Media artist, he is part of the Tactical Tourism collective whose proposals are based on intervention in public space. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam (Willem de Kooning Academie) and post-graduate in Electronic Art from the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, Netherlands. He received the First Prize at the Hungarian Experimental Film and Video Festival, Svigetvar 1989. And Honorable Mention at the Istanbul Video Festival, Turkey 1989. He has participated in various artist collectives such as the Elmo Catalán mural collective or the Virtual Actions Collective. . He founded the Mundolatino.org network, the first Spanish-speaking network on the Internet, and in 1995 he participated in the founding of Desk.nl, the first server created by artists in the Netherlands to generate content on the WWW. In 1992 he founded the first live TV program on Amsterdam cable TV. The single-channel videos produced between 1986 and 1995 are distributed by the Netherlands Media Institute (Nimk), and are part of the Montevideo/Time Base Arts Collection. He is a professor of New Technologies Applied to Design at the European Institute of Design Barcelona IED and develops artistic projects of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (VR / AR) and Interventions in Public Space.

The intervention exhibited in MediaLab is Love Story (2003). Various love stories make up the common thread of an unusual 'tourist' tour through the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona. The tour collects the real historical memory of the urban transformation of a neighborhood that is currently characterized by the coexistence of people from very diverse cultures and origins, and weaves it with the personal experience of the protagonists of the narrative plot. The action takes place for two hours in unique places such as restaurants, grocery stores, phone shops and other emblematic spaces in the neighborhood. Using a mobile phone, the images and sound of the action can be viewed and heard via the Internet.