Jaime Lobato (MX/EE)
Artist, composer, curator and researcher. He studied composition at the Faculty of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (FaM-UNAM) and a master in fine arts at the Postgraduate Program on Fine Arts and Design (PAD-UNAM). He has had six solo shows: Tactosis! at the Sound experimentation space, University Museum of Contemporary Art (MX); Transmutation, alchemies of space at Laboratorio Arte Alameda (MX), Binary Paths at the Xalapa Contemporary Art Gallery (MX), Iceberg at the Sound Space of the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Green Whispers at the Center for Netart Berlin (DE) and his first retrospective NATURFICIAL, living technologies at the Center for Digital Culture (MX). He has participated in several collective exhibitions such as PDCon, gallery Lab for Electronic Art and Performance LEAP, Berlin, Germany; C.A.C.A.O., Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico; Glitcha!, gallery CON Artist Collective, New York, USA; IN-Sonora 9, Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain; Periscopio, Zipper Gallery, Saõ Paulo, Brazil; LiveCodes, Gallery Factory Media Center. Hamilton, Canada. Borders of the Echo, The Front Gallery, San Diego, USA; Modos de Oír, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico; Espacios de Especies, Center for Digital Culture, Mexico City, Mexico; The Future Narrow Piksel 2020, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway; Piiritus, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia; Sentient Machines? Färgfabriken Gallery. Futureless Festival. Stockholm, Sweden; Ecologies of Art, University of Luxembourg, Esch-Belval Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; El Patio, Zona MACO, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenal Nord, Venice, Italy.
As curator he has developed projects such as Sección Temperie, sound art show related to the Fluxus movement for the Multimedia Center of the National Center for the Arts (CENART), Hibrida, electronic art show for the University of Saõ Paulo (USP), Diarios Efímeros, Live Coding show for the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC-UNAM), Diarios Efímeros 2.0 for the museum Laboratorio Arte Alameda (INBAL), LABIS NATURÆ, for the Multimedia Center of the National Center for the Arts (CENART) and HOMEOMORPHISMS, listening to the data, for the Sound Space of the Autonomous Metropolitan University Campus Xochimilco (UAM-X), and Natural Resistances. Post-digital practices in human-machine collaboration for the Salon of Mexican Fine Arts (INBAL).
As a researcher he worked at the Scientific Visualization Lab and at the Virtual Reality Observatory “Ixtli” at the General Directorate of Computing and Communication Technologies (DGTIC-UNAM). He is founder of the Research Seminar in Music, Mathematics and Computer Studies (SEMIMUTICAS) at the Applied Mathematics and Systems Research Institute (IIMAS-UNAM), Independencia Biolab an independent biohacker space based in Mexico City, the Sensory Mathematics Laboratory at the Mathematics Research Institute (IMATE-UNAM) and the Sensory Experimentation Laboratory “Javier Covarrubias” at the Department of Education and Communication at the Autonomous Metropolitan University Campus Xochimilco (UAM-X). Now he is associate researcher at the Center for Complexity Sciences (C3-UNAM) and he has several international publications in conference proceedings, journals and books, in editorials such as Cambridge Scholars, Springer-Verlag, Taylor & Francis, Siglo XXI and the Mexican Mathematical Society.