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80 * 80 * 60 cm
Arcade Machine,Interactive Audiovisual Installation
CRT TV, Wood Structure, Aluminium, Computer, Joystick and Buttons, Video Game, Code, LED Stripes, Sound, Beer Baskets

This is an arcade game for four players to play simultaneously. It is about cooperation and community. The game is about weaving a melody together through a series a cyclical and iterative steps. Harmony, coordination, synchronization are prioritised but also improvisation. Exchange between the players outside of the console is encouraged: It is up to the players to create a system/model to orally communicate the game sequences in order to fulfil the goals. On the screen a pattern emerges, on the speakers a song will manifest. Reminescent of sitting around the fire during a camping trip, the arcade works as a comunity creator. This is game is also an anti-game in terms of how a conventional game is structured: there are no clear rules, no clear incentives and no beggining or end. The participants are free. Just sit there and play together!

40 * 60 * 160 cm
Arcade Machine,Interactive Audiovisual Installation
Metal Barrel, Wood Structure, Screens, Computer, Joystick and Buttons, Video Game, Code, Stencil-airspray Paintings

This is an arcade game for two players. It deals with our relationship with Nature: resources exploitation vs. land preservation. Both players have 2min to compete on real time on the same map: player one has to deforest and find mineral veins of cobalt, nickel and lithium (all essential to today´s electronic industry) and build mines to extract them; player two has to dismantle those mines and then reforest on top of the land where the trees were torn down. The simple gaming mechanic makes for a competitive experience that, through role-playing, invites the player to reflect about greed, unlimited growth capitalism, balance, extractivism, resources value… The console is built with recycled materials: an oil barrel, reused computer screens, reclaimed wood. The arrangement of the screens on top of one another makes it necessary to enter into a power-impotence situation not only virtually but also physically. It becomes a metaphor for colonial power structures.

40*40*160 cm
Unlimited duration, Sound and Video Installation, Realtime generated
4 PAL screens, 4-channel sound in stereo mix,4 computers (Raspberry Pi) in a WLAN network

This is a multimedia modular installation. An undefined number of cathodic rays’ monitors are arranged together in towers, usually a single tower of four TVs or two of four. On each screen, a hermetic colony of simple microorganisms is simulated on real time. The colony contains nutrients and comfortable/uncomfortable areas for the organisms. Each organism has basic individual behaviours: move, feed, reproduce and die. These are predetermined by a particular 4x4 “DNA matrix”. Organisms have also social behaviours: flock, distribute, direct… Through evolution, behaviours are inherited, reshaped, discarded. From the information of the organisms and all their interactions a constantly evolving music is generated on real time. This data-sonification allows the spectator to perceive the delicate balance between the arbitrary-determinism and the free-will of each system. This was conceived as an attempt to give the computer agency: the possibility to create. It is meant to generate empathy and equanimity and as consequence gaining animistic recognition from the spectators.

Born in Bogotá (CO) currently living in Köln (DE). Practicing between both.
I am a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on experimental computing. Based on an animistic perspective, I advocate for a man-machine relationship of coexistence and symbiosis. Among many subsequent topics, I like to deal with the ethics and morals of machine identity/spirit, transhumanism, human-machine cooperation and education and anything related to enouncing the future of artificial systems. I do audiovisual performances under the pseudonym of Janus, or as part of the comedy duo Super Mora Bros., or as part of the trio of noise and meta-communication Fauxmalhaut.

Email: hello@camilosandoval.de
Instagram: tibou.china

2017-2020, KHM, Kunsthochschule für Medien - Mediale Künste Diplom II, Schwerpunkt exMedia, mit Auszeichnung
2012-2015, Universidad de los Andes - Design, Undergraduate Program (not finished)
2009-2015, Universidad Nacional - Film and TV, Undergraduate Program

Jul. 2021 - Dec. 2022, Kunstmentorat NRW, Mentee from Tim Berresheim
Feb. 2022, Grand Art prize for Outstanding Artistic Achievements, Freunde der KHM
Jan. 2022, Kickstarter-Zuschuss für Absolvent:innen, Stiftung Kunstfonds NRW
Dec. 2020 - May 2021, Research and Work Grant, Matjö Raum für Kunst
Sep. 2016, DAAD-COLFUTURO, Partial Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies, Country-Specific Cooperation Program with Colombia
Nov. 2009, Full Scholarship, for Undergraduate Studies, Awarded by Endesa Colombia
2009 - 2013, Honorific Enrollment at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Awarded Every Semester for Best Academic Achievements

Mar. 2022, “Exotismo, Apropiación y Tradición”, Universidad Los Libertadores, Bogotá (CO)
Jun. 2020, “Code and Traditional Handcraft”, Processing Community Hangout, web conference (Global)
Jun. 2019, “Transduction, translation, transformation”, Sound Lecture, Next Generation 10.0 - ZKM, Karlsruhe (DE)
May. 2019, “DIY Interfaces”, Workshop, OpenLab KHM, Köln (DE)
Mar. 2019, “From Soukous to Champeta”, Sound Lecture, Deutschlandfunk, Köln (DE)
Feb. 2019, “From Soukous to Champeta”, Sound Lecture, OTIC radio, KHM, Köln (DE)

Oct. 2022, Ersatzfamilieportraits, STROMA, Köln (DE)
Dec. 2019, RGBW, Gemeinde Köln, Köln (DE)

Oct. 2024, On Pliny's Path, Nueues Kunstforum, Köln (DE)
Aug. 2024, Guilty Pleasure, Mineral Treasure, Künstlerhaus Dort., Dortmund (DE)
Jun. 2024, Kiosk Sessions Vol. 3, Köx, Düsseldorf (DE)
May. 2024, Flux Ramifiés, Musée Théodore Monod, Dakar (SN)

Nov. 2023, Per Diem, Zky - Raum für Konzepte, Köln (DE)
Aug. 2023, Surreal Futures, Max Ernst Museum, Brühl (DE)
Jun. 2023, Simulated Nature, KKKW Sommerpavillion, Berlin (DE)
May. 2023, Drei Seiten des Bildes, Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen (DE)
Feb. 2023, Between Every Frame, ACID LAB, Taipei (TW)

Dec. 2022, The Sublime and the Subliminal, Motoki, Köln (DE)
Oct. 2022, Screen time, Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen (DE)
Aug. 2022, hdcsft, Petershof, Köln (DE)
Apr. 2022, Art@Tech, Wertheim, Köln (DE)

Oct. 2021, Art Cologne, Köln (DE)
Sep. 2021, Media Art Festival, Leeuwarden (NL)
Aug. 2021, Well @ Ebertplatz, GOLD + BETON, Köln (DE)

Nov. 2019, Museumsnacht - Glasmoog, Köln (DE)
Sep. 2019, Responsive Festival, Halifax (CA)
Sep. 2019, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (AT)
Jul. 2019, KHM Rundgang, Köln (DE)

Nov. 2018, Art@Tech-Digitale Leute, Köln (DE)
Nov. 2018, TADAEX, Mohsen Gallery, Teheran (IR)
Sep. 2018, Interference Light Art Project, Tunis (TN)
Aug. 2018, Art@Tech - C/O Pop Festival, Köln (DE)
Jul. 2018, KHM Rundgang, Köln (DE)
Jul. 2018, KHM x OSF - Open Source Festival, Düsseldorf (DE)
Apr. 2018, Eine Schifffahrt -EMAF 2018, Osnabrück (DE)
Mar. 2018, Collumina, Köln (CO)
Feb. 2018, Eine Schifffahrt - Photo Weekend 2018, Düsseldorf (DE)
Feb. 2018, Film ohne Film, 31. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart (DE)
Jan. 2018, Leichte Widrigkeiten - Kulturtankstelle, Linz (AT)

Nov. 2017, Art@Tech II, Köln (DE)
Oct. 2017, Museumsnacht Köln - Room 2, Köln (DE)
Apr. 2017, Art@Tech I - Trinitatiskirche, Köln (DE)
Jan. 2017, Urban Stages-Bayer Kultur E.haus, Leverkusen (DE)

Nov. 2015, Video Poeisis – Plataforma FGAA, Bogotá (CO)

Aug. 2024, FALSCHE KORALLENOTTERN, d6 Gallery, Köln (DE)

Jul. 2023, Super Mora Bros. play Mario Kart 64, with A. Sandoval, Nimm Platz - Neumarkt, Köln (DE)

Jul. 2019, REVERTO, with D. Tomić, KHM Rundgang Opening, Köln (DE)
Jun. 2019, Fauxmalhaut VII: Adrian’s Revenge, with J. Park and A. Niegl, next generation 10.0 - ZKM, Karlsruhe (DE)
Apr. 2019, Fauxmalhaut VI: perpetual darkness still keep time, with J. Park and A. Niegl, EMAF 2019, Osnabrück (DE)
Feb. 2019, PlusKarl, OTIC radio, KHM, Köln (DE)

Nov. 2018, Fauxmalhaut V, with J. Park and A. Niegl, Museumsnacht, Kulturbunker, Köln (DE)
Sep. 2018, Phyllotaxis/Phylogenesis, with N. Sánchez, Domo Live – Unterbog, Maloka Centro Interactivo, Bogotá (CO)
Jul. 2018, Astatic a Static, with D. Tomić, KHM Rundgang Opening, Köln (DE)
Jun. 2018, De dos cosas una, with N. Sánchez, Old News from New Friends - Deep Space Live, Ars Electronica Center, Linz (AT)
Mar. 2018, A Misunderstanding, with J. Park and A. Niegl, Kölner Kongress, Deutschlandfunk, Köln (DE)
Feb. 2018, Film ohne Film, Performance 31. Stuttgarter, Filmwinter, Kunst Bezirk, Stuttgart (DE)

Sept 2017, Fauxmalhaut II, with J. Park and A. Niegl, Soundings Xtra, KHM, Köln (DE)
Sep. 2017, llll_, with T. Roller and J. Bolle, Kölner Musiknacht, WDR Funkhaus, Köln (DE)
Jun. 2017, Fauxmalhaut, with J. Park and A. Niegl, Performance Garten, Köln (DE)
Apr. 2017, Elektrosmog Konzert: llll_, with T. Roller and J. Bolle, Elektrosmog, Zeitraumexit, Mannheim (DE)
Jan. 2017, Cross.access/Inter-course:infringement, with J. Park and A. Niegl, Art’s birthday party, Kulturbunker, Köln (DE)
Jan. 2017, llll_, with T. Roller and J. Bolle, Art’s birthday party, Kultur Bunker Müllheim, Köln (DE)

Sep. 2016, NYK+JANUS LIVE, with N. Sánchez, Teatro Quimera, Bogotá (CO)

Name: Camilo Sandoval
Hair: Curly, Dark Brown
Eyes: Brown
Dominant Hand: Left
Place: Bogotá(CO), Köln(DE)
Official Website: This One

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