Gilberto Esparza

Gilberto Esparza. Born 1975, Aguascalientes, Mexico Artist based in Mexico City. (1975) BFA by the University of Guanajuato and MFA by the Politecnic University in Valencia, Spain. He has been suported by the Nacional Foundation for the Arts in Mexico for the development and research of New Media Projects. He has been artist in residence in the New Media Research Center in Mexico City, and Noordkaap, project space in the city of Dordrecht. Holland. His work involves the use of electronic media and robotics in order to question the impact of technology embedded in everyday life. His work is an inquiry upon the effects of technology on social relations and economic phenomena as well as their impact on the environment and the urban structure. His recent work is linked to an ongoing research process into alternative types of energy. His practice employs the recycling of consumer technology and a path that treads between the analog and digital. Esparza directed experimental electronics workshops Telefonica Foundation (VIDA 10) in Peru, Argentina, Chile and Mexico. Recently he was awarded with the second prize VIDA 13.0 of Telefonica Foundation in Spain.

His work has been exhibited in Mexico, United States, Colombia, Spain, Brazil, Bolivia, Canada, Slovenia, Holland and Belgium.

Artificial life, astronomy, biology and art.

visual artist, sculpture, painting, drawing, art writer, critic,

In TEDActive 2013, i'll show my ultimate project called Plantas Nomadas. A project that includes a small automaton robot (nomadic plant) that moves towards water when its bacteria require nourishment. It contains vegetation and microorganisms living symbiotically inside the body of the machine. The robot draws water from a contaminated river, decomposes its elements, helps to create energy to feed its brain circuits and the surplus is then used to create life, maintaining plants that, at once, fulfill their own life cycle. The installation is also composed of a video of the process of creation of the nomadic plant, a documentary when the robot acted in the river Santiago and Lerma River in Mexico.