Rafael Marchetti

Rafael Marchetti is an artist, graduated from the Manuel Belgrano National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, and in 1994 he was a winner 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).

Participate in Medialab Madrid with the "Wikimap Madrid" project, carried out in collaboration by FutureLab of Ars Electronica and MediaLabMadrid of the Conde Duque Cultural Center. Through a simple interface, anyone can, through tags, add Madrid locations including text, text/image, text/sound or projects.