Tomas Laurenzo
Tomás Laurenzo (Montevideo, 1977) is an Uruguayan artist, engineer, academic, musician, writer, and designer. With a wide range of artistic practices and research interests, Laurenzo's production often necessitate to reflect particularly on new technologies, art, and the politics of meaning.[1]
Tomás Laurenzo | |
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Born | 1977 Uruguay |
Alma mater | Universidad de la República |
Known for | New media art |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Decoupling and context in new media art |
Doctoral advisor | Alvaro Casinelli |
Website | https://laurenzo.net/ |
Biography
Laurenzo received a BSc degree in computer science (CS) from University of the Republic (UdelaR) followed by MSc and PhD degrees in CS from PEDECIBA, a joint program by UdelaR and Uruguay's Ministry of Education and Culture. His doctoral advisor was Alvaro Cassinelli[2] from University of Tokyo.[1]
After completing his first graduate program, Laurenzo's focus shifted from industry to art and academia. He subsequently held the position of associate professor at University of the Republic, where he founded and directed Uruguay's first research group on new media and HCI,[3] followed by UdelaR's Core Group on HCI research.[4][5][6]
In 2014, Laurenzo relocated to Hong Kong and assumed the role of assistant professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, which was under the leadership of the renowned Australian new media artist Jeffrey Shaw. Since 2021 and as of 2023, Laurenzo holds the position of Associate Professor of Critical Media Practices within the College of Media, Communication, and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Laurenzo has also held shorter academic positions at prestigious institutions, such as visiting scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT,[7] research fellow at Microsoft Research, visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, guest lecturer at Brunel University London, and visiting artist at University of Iowa.[8]
Career
During his tenure in the private sector, Laurenzo led the design and development of Uruguay's first governmental internet portal and Uruguay's first publicly accessible governmental database.[9] Laurenzo has also made significant contributions to Uruguay's academic, artistic, and research landscapes, marked by some notable firsts.
Laurenzo's pioneering efforts in Uruguay include authoring the first MSc. and Ph.D theses in the fields of new media art, HCI, and politics, establishing the first research group dedicated to these areas, founding the first interdisciplinary research group on HCI, teaching the first undergraduate courses on real-time computer graphics, physical computing, video games, new media art, and creative coding, teaching the first graduate course on new media art, advising the first two MSc theses (since Laurenzo's own), and exhibiting both the first small and large-scale interactive artworks. Some of these projects led to Laurenzo receiving some of the first-ever international awards for new media art in Uruguay.[10][11][12]
Laurenzo's projects include Awkward Consequence (with Christian Clark and Tobias Klein), the world's first-ever massive VR performance, NEXO (with Gustavo Armagno et al.), which leveraged real-time computer vision improving OLPC's XOs usability for motor-impaired children, and The Vision Machine, an audiovisual performance utilizing real-time VR-mediated wetware on stage.
Laurenzo's strong interest in social, political and geopolitical topics are often noticeable in his art-making. Notable examples include the artworks 5500,[13] Nibia, Be water, Homs,[14][15] and Smile, which explore the topics of illegal immigration, the death by torture of Nibia Sabalsagaray, the Siege of Homs, the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, and the destruction of the Gaza Strip, respectively.
Laurenzo has performed or exhibited at SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, NIME, ISEA,[16] NeurIPS,[17] ECCV, Sónar+D, Mutek,[18] TEI, C3A, NYIT, ECCV, Osage Gallery, Antel, EAC, UdelaR, MSR, Presidency of Uruguay, Saatchi & Saatchi, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Goethe Institut, International Computer Music Conference, K11 Art Foundation, MNAV, Montevideo Exhibition Center, and the Solís Theatre, among others.
Partial list of exhibited artworks
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References
- "Tomas Laurenzo". College of Media, Communication and Information. November 16, 2020.
- "Alvaro CASSINELLI - CityU Scholars | A Research Hub of Excellence". scholars.cityu.edu.hk. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
- "Medialab // publications". www.fing.edu.uy. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
- "Interacción Persona-Computadora (NICHI)". Patio | Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo | Udelar. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
- "Events Calendar". Boulder Daily Camera. 2019-03-19. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
- "Creative Tech Week". www.ctw.nyc. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
- "Tomas LAURENZO CORONEL 2018". Global Community Bio Summit. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
- "Art (and Politics) in Hong Kong, Dr. Laurenzo Visiting Artist in Animation". events.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
- todouy.com. "Todo.com.uy - La Guía del Uruguay". todo.com.uy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-30.
- "Udelar Expedient". www.expe.edu.uy. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
- "Facing Interaction". Microsoft Research. 2012-12-20. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
- "Udelar Expedient". www.expe.edu.uy. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
- Coronel, Tomas LAURENZO (2015-07-01). "5500".
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(help) - "Tomás Laurenzo llega a Sant Antoni de mano del BLOOP Festival". Periódico de Ibiza y Formentera (in Spanish). 2016-08-10. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
- ibiza, redacción | (2016-08-09). "Una videoinstalación y un corto en Sa Punta des Molí". Diario de Ibiza (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-29.
- paula (2016-06-20). "Ciborgues da contrarrevolução". Revista Select (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-06-29.
- "tomas laurenzo Archives". AI Art Gallery. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
- "MUTEK.AR develó la primera ola de artistas confirmados". www.djmagla.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-29.
- Creativity 2019, NeurIPS (2019-12-15), laurenzo-smile-featured, retrieved 2023-06-29
- "Arts Machine". Arts Machine.
- https://www.drha.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/DRHA2019_ConferenceProceedings_compressed-1-1.pdf
- Coronel, Tomas LAURENZO (2017-05-28). "Ekphrasis". Proceedings of the Taboo, Transgression and Transcendence in Art & Science Conference, TTT2017. Ionian University.
- Laurenzo, Tomas (April 11, 2018). "Simple Background Noise: Movement and Stillness" – via scholars.cityu.edu.hk.
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(help) - "Tomás Laurenzo | Metal Magazine". metalmagazine.eu.
- "The Vision Machine - Sónar+D · - Sónar Hong Kong 2017". Sónar Hong Kong.
- "On the Basis of Face: Biometric Art as Critical Practice, its History and Politics « INC Longform". Retrieved 2023-06-29.
- "Elephant (with Tony Tackling)" – via soundcloud.com.
- "Lituania Lituania".
- Facultad de Ingenieria. "Celebra at UdelaR". fing.edu.uy.
- "CMMR 2013 | Marseille". cmmr2013.prism.cnrs.fr. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
- "Interactive Performance". www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
- "son" – via www.youtube.com.
- "Medialab // Net". www.fing.edu.uy. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- https://narkolepsy.weebly.com/uploads/1/5/0/5/15058708/nk_bilan_playin_2011.pdf
- "Projet de spécialité Ensimag - Suivi de personnes pour une installation interactive". iihm.imag.fr. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
- "Eduardo Lamas (Filmmaker) / Lamas Films". Eduardo Lamas.
- Grupo 180. "Fusión de música y poesía". www.180.com.uy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-29.