Contact:
mail (at) serafinalvarez (dot) net
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About:
My name is Serafín Álvarez, I am an artist, researcher and teacher based in Barcelona.
My work consists of collecting images, organizing them, drawing associations between them, thinking with them; imagining worlds from them, building those worlds—usually employing video game technology—and letting them be. These processes are usually motivated by a particular interest in how we relate to the unknown, how we study it with science and how we represent it with fiction.
I have shown my work at places such as Asakusa (Tokyo), CA2M (Móstoles), CAC (Vilnius), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), CentroCentro (Madrid), Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), MACBA (Barcelona), MUSAC (León), La Panera (Lleida), Sónar (Barcelona) and Trafó (Budapest) amongst others.
Besides my work as an artist, some other things that I am or have been involved in include BAU College of Arts & Design, where I teach and where I am Head of the Composition and Languages Department; Gravitacions, an art educational project that I run at Fundació Joan Miró's Espai 13; Sons de Barcelona, a sound pedagogy project linked to the Music Technology Group that I co-run at Pompeu Fabra University; Sampler Sèries, a concert program at L'Auditori de Barcelona for which I occasionally write program notes; Ona, an art educational project that I curated at Sant Andreu Contemporani between 2016-2020; and The Way Things Do, an exhibition I co-curated at Fundació Joan Miró in 2017.
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