Ricardo Iglesias

(Madrid, 1965)

Artist, curator, researcher and teacher, he teaches classes at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid. He develops his artistic activity focused on three concepts: interaction, communication and control. Interaction understood as open systems of dynamic action in public spaces; communication as technological experimentation of new forms of aesthetic language, and control as a unifying concept of the behaviors of current media societies. With participation in numerous national and international exhibitions such as: (Al)most life, after all (Barcelona 2019), Expanded Aesthetics (Pasto/Colombia 201 19), The Origin of Magic (Madrid 2019), Electronic November (Buenos Aires 2017) ), Net.Art and Control (Madrid 2017)... At the same time, he has developed his academic and research activity in centers such as MNCARS, MACBA, European University (CEES), Cuenca University, Salamanca University and Valencia Polytechnic University.

He has participated in Medialab Madrid within the framework of the Banquete_08 exhibitions nodes and networks, with the robotic action José, an autistic robot (2007). It looks like an automated anthropomorphic servant, equipped with its Arduino microcontroller, its sensors, which allow it to perceive the environment, but from its actuators, which allow it to move through space, it displays an inventory of adverse reactions to communication, turning it around. the image of the robot as a submissive machine; José shows his fears of contact or any type of interaction with humans that disturbs his inner world.