Julian Bonequi

Lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico

Artist statement

Hybrid artist working with computational design, extended reality, and physical immersion, focused on the Bio-Renaissance of technology that encompasses responsiveness and action on the climate crisis, as survival and mental health prosthetics. Julian Bonequi began his career interested in transmedia art associated with non-human musical scenarios and vocal trance channeling while studying Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. After finishing specialized studies in Video Game Design and 3D Animation at the Pompeu Fabra University (2006-2009), he collaborated with Research Groups on Interactive Technologies and Neuroscience in Barcelona as a 3D artist (SPECS/GTI, 2008-2010) and as a New Media Professor in Universities and Music Conservatories (2009-2019), as well as a guest performer (2004-2021) with orchestras and contemporary music ensembles in Madrid, London, Berlin, and Mexico, such as the London Improvisers Orchestra and the Berlin Improvisers Orchestra. Since then, his interest in speculative/critical design has evolved while hybridizing interactive art and innovative sonic immersion concepts for liminal-participatory narratology, developing extended reality scores and coded automatons with Augmented and Virtual Reality for Holophrenic Theater. His most recent works (2016-2022) have focused on creating day-to-day interfaces that help us think through our bodies while channeling “haptically embodied cognition” and developing alternative models of...

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