Fernanda Olivares
(1990, Mexico City)
Fernanda Olivares is a multidisciplinary artist who creates hybrid connections between painting, dance, and the digital as a bridge of tools and explorations. Her work focuses on the concept of the virtual and physical body, its boundaries, and finite possibilities. Fernanda´s artist pursuit looks for the embodiment, the metabolization of the non- natural, technological, and organic elements from the choreographic human/computer vision, as well as body data collection as a principle.
AI as a gamechanger for human- machine creative collaboration is one of her major current research interests. Olivares has explored painting sci-fi narratives such as the possibility of living in other planets, bodies reactions to special conditions and the dancer´s chance to reconfigure and add new discourses to embodiment. Rituals as a main condition for the collective, the AI datasets as a reflection of our current social condition and the acceptance of a human who is only a tiny spot in the whole space map.
Fernanda Olivares is a Mexican visual artist who started from a Fine Arts education exploring painting, dance and other traditional media. As technological changes started, she realized that combining the best of both worlds would significantly change her work and research to an integrative approach; coherent to the challenges we face in our contemporary world. By experimenting with digital fabrication, the possibilities of robots and AIs, Olivares currently researches on building a bridge between a human/machine collaboration, where algorithms express and are curated along with the artist´s proposal. Fernanda has participated in multiple exhibitions, events and biennales worldwide in Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, and USA. She has received prizes in the areas of women in STEAM along with mentoring young students to pursue arts with an entrepreneurial/ world caring view. As a leader, she created FAMS, a non- profit organization dedicated to contemporary art, technology and education. The organization produced the first Latin American Artificial Intelligence Art Bienale in 2022 (BILIA 2022).
Robotic portrait, laser engraving on aluminum
Education
Program in Arts & Science. ITMO University. 2021-2022 ( AI and Robotics Art)
Bachelor in Fine Arts. National School of Arts, “La Esmeralda, Mexico City” 2010- 2014
The Florence Academy of Art, NY.
The Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy. 2015
Artist Residencies
Art House Holland. The Netherlands. 2019
St. Petersburg Virtual Art Residency,2020
Solo Exhibitions
Alliance Française du Mexique. Voladores. 2020
Orange Conscious Program Colombia/ Mexico. Manizales University. Voladores. 2020
Mexican Dance Museum.Coreografías corporales.2018
Palacio de Minería Museum . Bailemos! 2018
Spanish Education Embassy Council in Mexico. Corporeidades. 2015
Group Exhibitions
BILIA 2022 Latin American AI Bienale 2022.Mexico City.
Palais des Nations, Geneve Switzerland. Hosted by United Nations and World Health Organization.2022
Latino Art Museum, California. 2019
Kunst Route Leiden Holland.2019
Sebastian Foundation, Tránsitos de lo sagrado.2019.
José Luis Cuevas Museum. Organ Donation Exhibition.2018
Universidad Iberoamericana and (MAI) Marina Abramovic Institute, Antropologías visuales. 2015.
Intellectual Property Mexican Institute. Mexico City.2013
International Fairs
Latin American AI Bienale. Mexico City,2022
Material Art Fair 2022. Mexico City,2022
Zona Maco 2022 and 2020. Mexico City
Vancouver Art Book Fair 2020. Canada
Paperworks 2019. Museo Tamayo
Brooklyn Art Fair NY 2019 and 2022
Lectures
International Space Program. Starmex, Latin American Space Agency. 2022
Present and future of NFTs in Mexico. Cryptoart Day, Artcrypted Gallery and Binance. 2021
Interamerican Development Bank. “Art and technology”. 2021
Second place at the Makers for Good Make a Ton, Global FabLab Day. Sponsored by Solidworks, Wikifactory and Miro. 2020
IBRIDA. Drawing and technology.
School of Visual Arts. New Media Master Program. NYC.2020
Solidworks World Texas, Partner Pavilion. Dassault Systemes. Partner Pavilion/ Fab Lab Tech .2019
STEM Women in Art Program. US Consulate.2020
Collaborations
Mural at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, Netherlands.2019
Dutch National Ballet. 2019
National Mexican Ballet. 2017
Mercedes Benz
Teaching
Art, drawing and technology workshop. School of Visual Arts NYC (Ibrida)
Painting III, IV. BFA Program, National Art School “La Esmeralda”
Visual Arts BFA, Centro de Arte Mexicano
Continuing Education program. National Art Museum. Mexico City
Awards
Alfredo Zalce Biennale .2015
Young Art Biennial.2015. Michoacán, Mexico
National Women Award for Young artistic Career.2019
Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo, COVID funding for technological artists
Current Projects
Production and founder of BILIA 2022 Latin American AI Bienale 2022
VR Experimentation and Digital Fabrication Educational International Program IBRIDA
Founder of FAMS (Fundación Arte y Mundo Sostenible) Non Profit Organization oriented to environment, education, contemporary art and technology.