Santiago Ortiz

Mathematician, musician, artist, researcher and teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, in the art department and in the mathematics department of the University of Los Andes (Bogotá). Professor of the Master of Art and Technology at the European University of Madrid and of Digital Design at the European Institute of Design of Madrid. In his work he explores themes of art and science and investigates multiple spaces of visualization. His works address paradigms of artificial life and the dynamic representation of information. Its main focus is the notions of relationships, networks, complex interactions, and ecological systems. Co-founder of the digital art and culture magazine Blank. Director of the Infinitoarte digital art program. Co-founder and director of artistic projects at Moebio. He has participated in group exhibitions: International Festival of Electronic Art 404, Rosario, Argentina; Periférico, collective sound art session, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City; The inverted gaze, installation, Conde Duque Cultural Center, Madrid; banquet_ metabolism and communication, Madrid; Estampa, International Exhibition of Engraving and Contemporary Art, Madrid. He has held the individual exhibition: The inventor of Stories -code, language and complexity-, MediaLabMadrid, Madrid, 2004.

The installation Oracle and Landscape was present at the exhibition Banquete_05_comunicación en evolving. It consists of two interfaces (oracle and landscape) where all content is structured in a network of relationships. The two opposing interfaces, simultaneously, make up an installation with which it is possible to experience two very different forms of navigation through the same content. While the oracle allows comprehensive access to all information, and represents the network of relationships, the landscape simulates a travel experience through the network and content.