Bio

Short Biography and CV (2010)

Julio Obelleiro is an artist and engineer focused on the investigation of new ways to create engaging interactions between audience and artworks. He creates interactive installations that initiate shifts and illusions in perception, as viewers are made aware of their relation with an artwork. His work has also revolved around the creation of interactive large-scale public projections where the collaborative creation of audiovisual experiences by the audience is addressed.

His interdisciplinary work has also been developed within the art group Play The Magic, and his work has been shown internationally in festivals and venues such as: as Ars Electronica (Austria), FILE Festival (Brazil), 10YearsAfter v4.0_OuterSpace Festival (Seoul), The White Night (Madrid), Looptopia (Chicago), Urban Art Festival (Bucharest), Mirador-Matadero Biennale (Madrid) among others. He has been recipient of the Fulbright Grant, the University Fellowship (University of Illinois at Chicago), or the Torres Quevedo Fellowship (Spanish Ministry of Education and Science) among others.

 

 

Selected Exhibitions

2010

 

Gallery 400, Chicago, USA

Nightingale Theater (screening), Chicago, USA

2009

 

FILE Rio (International Festival of Electronic Language), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

White Night (Noche de Luna Llena 09), Segovia, Spain

Spark Festival for Electronic Music and The Arts, Minneapolis, USA

Lightwave 09, Science Gallery at the Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Dead Video/Live Video (Part of Boston CyberArts Festival), Boston, USA

Plaines Project (Aspect Ratio Exhibition) Chicago, USA

2008  

Move new media art fair, La Coruña, Spain

MAEM.08, ELECTRODOMÉSTICO, Móstoles Digital Art Exhibition, Spain

Urban Art 2008, Bucharest White Night, Rumania (public art event)

Malmo Festivalen 2008, Malmo, Sweden

Noche de la Luna Llena 2008, Segovia (public art commission), Spain

FILE (International Festival of Electronic Language), Sao Paulo, Brazil

Looptopia (Chicago’s White Night), Chicago (public art event), USA

Interactivos? Exhibition, Espacio Movistar, Barcelona, Spain

2007  

Art, Science and Dalí. Making Visible the Invisible, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Mirador Biennale 07, Matadero de Legazpi, Madrid, Spain

Conde Duque Cultural Center, MediaLab-Prado, Madrid, Spain

2006  

Ars Electronica Festival 06, Linz, Austria

10YearsAfter_v4.0_OuterSpace Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea

White Night (La Noche en Blanco), Madrid, Spain (public art event)

Conde Duque Cultural Center, MediaLab-Prado, Madrid, Spain

2004   Art Futura Festival 04, Barcelona, Spain

Honors and Awards

2010

 

FILE Prix Lux Award Nominee/Finalist
Interactive Arts category

2007-9

 

Fulbright Grant
Graduate Studies Fellowship, US-Spain Fulbright Commission

UIC Art and Design Department Award
Exhibition and Travel funding, University of Illinois at Chicago

Graduate Fellowship
University of Illinois at Chicago

The Image of Research Award (honorary mention)
University of Illinois at Chicago

2006   Torres Quevedo Fellowship
Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
2004   Honorable Mention
Art Futura Festival 04, Barcelona, Spain

 Selected Talks

2010

  Processing.Android: Open-Source for mobile innovation
UIC Innovation Center, Chicago
Presentation of the open source tool Cing

2009

  Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
FILE Rio Symposium, Electronic Language International Festival
Artist talk
2008  

School of Arts and Communication, K3 University, Malmo, Sweden
Artist talk at Art and Technology workshops (7workshops7)

Fine Arts School, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Artist Talk at the MFA (MAC+I) Art and Creation + Research

2007  

Residencia de Estudiante, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Art, Science and Dalí. Making Visible the Invisible

Electronic Visualization Laboratory, UIC, Chicago, USA
Presentation of open source tool Cing (under development)

2006  

Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea
Artist Talk, and computer vision and new media art conference

Ars Electronica Festival 06, Electrolobby , Linz, Austria
Artist Talk

AVLab (Audiovisual Lab), MediaLab-Prado, Madrid, Spain
Talk about computer vision technology and interactive installations

School of Design, Polytechic University, Madrid, Spain
Artist Talk

Education

2008-10

  Master of Fine Arts
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Department of New Media Arts
2003-4   Master in Video Game Creation
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Member of Interactive Technology Research Group (GTI)
1999-2003   Bachelor in Computer Science
Polytechnic School of Autonoma University, Madrid, Spain
Member of Human Computer Technology Lab (HCTLab)

 Teaching Experience

2010

  School of Art and Design, University of Illinois en Chicago, USA
Adjunct Assistant Professor, New Media Arts Program

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Instructor, Art and Technology Studies

2009

  School of Art and Design, University of Illinois en Chicago, USA
Instructor, Responsive Arts course (New Media Art Theory and Practice)
2008  

School of Arts and Communication, K3 University, Malmo, Sweden
Workshops about interactive installations production (processing,arduino)

Design Visualization Laboratory, Art and Design, UIC, Chicago, USA
Computer vision and audiovisual interactive installations workshop

School of Art and Design, University of Illinois en Chicago, USA
Teaching Assistant, Intro to Responsive Arts course. Prof Dre Browning.

School of Art and Design, University of Illinois en Chicago, USA
Teaching Assistant, Intro to Responsive Arts course. Prof Sabrina Raaf.

2007   MediaLab-Prado, Madrid, Spain
Computer vision and audiovisual interactive installations workshop
2006   AVLab (Audiovisual Lab), MediaLab-Prado, Madrid, Spain
Programming for Artists course
2004   Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Associate Professor, Information Visualization course

Professional Working Experience

 2007

  Freelance / Independent Contractor
Creation (design and programming) of events and permanent interactive installations for clients such as: Casio, space150, Arista…etc

 2007

  Pyro Studios, Madrid
Senior Artificial Intelligence Programmer (PS3/XBox 360 videogame consoles)
2005-6   Enigma Software Productions, Madrid
Senior Artificial Intelligence and Graphics Engine Programmer
2004   Interactive Technology Research Group
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
Researcher – Programmer
Speed-FX Project (European IST Prize 2001-34337)
2002-3   HCTLab (Human Computer Technology Laboratory)
Autonoma University, Madrid
Researcher – Programmer
2002-3   Computational Neuroscience Institute
Autonoma University, Madrid
Research Collaboration for Neural Networks research project showed at Science Fair 2003 Madrid

Collections

 

  CosmoCaixa Science Museum (Permanent Exhibition), Madrid, Spain

Selected Bibliography

 2009

  Catalog MOVE New Media Art Fair, La Coruña, 2009, p120
Catalog FILE Rio Festival, Rio de Janeiro, March 2009, p95
Newspaper “O Globo”, Rio de Janeiro, March 8th, 2009
Newspaper “Jornal Do Brazil”, Rio de Janeiro, March 8th, 2009
Newspaper “Jornal Destak Rio”, Rio de Janeiro, March 10th, 2009
Newspaper “Jornal Metro”, Rio de Janeiro, March 10th, 2009
2008   Journal Leonardo, October 2008, Vol. 41, No. 5, p. 454-459, MIT Press
Catalog FILE Sao Paulo Festival, August 2008, p65
2006   Catalog Ars Electronica 2006, Linz, p. 160
Newspaper “El País”, Madrid, Sept 23rd 2006
Catalog 10 Years After – Outer Space Exhibition, Seoul, 2006, p4
Magazine Science+Art, Seoul, 2006, p8

Publications

 2008

 

An Advanced Motivation-Driven Planning Architecture
AI Game Programming Wisdom 4
Charles River Media
Julio Obelleiro, David Hernández Cerpa

RTS Terrain Tactical Analysis: An Image Processing Approach
AI Game Programming Wisdom 4
Charles River Media
Julio Obelleiro, David Hernández Cerpa, Raúl Sampedro

2007   The Magic Torch
La Más Bella (Art Publication), Spain
With Alberto García Sáenz