Mariela Cadiz

Graduated in Painting from the School of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid, she began to be interested in new technologies during her studies at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Germany. Granted by the Fulbright Commission, she studied a Master's Degree in Film and Video at the Film School of the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. Since then, he has worked with electronic images. He has exhibited at numerous international video festivals and received different awards: Special Mention from the International Art and Artificial Life Contest Vida 5.0, 2002 for Levántate; Special Mention from the Jury – Interferences Festival International d'Arts Multimedia Urbains Belfort, France, 2000 and the Bronze Prize from the JVC Tokyo Video Festival in Tokyo, 1998. Some of his works: Espejismo, espejismo, Centro de Arte Joven, Madrid, 2000 and Aléthèia, 1998.

He is part of the multimedia artist collective Aetherbits along with Denis Lelong and Kent Clelland. They met in 1994 when they were studying at the California Institute of the Arts / CalArts (USA). Since then they have established fruitful collaborations for different artistic projects, from 3D computer graphics to live cinema performances and interactive multimedia installations.

He participated in Medialab Madrid Banquete05_evolving communication with “Levántate, 2002”. Interactive audiovisual installation. The body is a sender and receiver of signals that communicates with its environment. Our identity is just a sensitive, vulnerable and transformable membrane. If the body exists through language and its representations, its code is a battlefield between creation, destruction and regeneration. What you breathe in this burning darkness is an immersion in our secret life. The audiovisual installation shows the image of an electronic body projected overhead on a kind of sarcophagus and visualizes the most intangible part of the human body: the incessant transformation of flows of information and energy.