Libelula Robot (Robotic Dragonfly), Ximo Lizana (Spain)
http://www.ximolizana.com/

Name, surname Ximo Lizana (Joaquin Lizana Escartin)

Country Spanish

Title of the artwork entrant Libelula Robot (Robotic Dragonfly)

Year  start 2006 and finished 2007

Technical description 

Simulation in the  Project Render 3D, Rinho, Real Flow, Bit Map JPG

Real Construction External Structure: · 3D Mesh, code machine, robotic 5-axis milling, electroplating and Polish Material: High-density polyurethane.

Internal Structure: Linear actuators, steel, LEDs, transformers, microprocessor without graphic capabilities (micro pic), transformers,and infrared remote system, potentiometers and aluminum.

Idea

This  project is part of  what we know as artificial robotic life, interactive robotics, the robot dragonfly book a room designed and built entirely in plastics source binary, it represents a copy of a dragonfly seeming modernist, mechanized and robot to recover artificial life combines language with random reactions interactive, designed to give a jump between the worlds of engineering and nature.

A tribute to the modernist universe, giving rise to a symbiosis between nature and the machine as part of it, in which the artist's proposal is merely a means of communication and where the dialogue between the robot and he becomes a spectator The real artistic event.

The technology seeks inspiration in nature, as the origin of the unequivocal reference in this era of sophistication is to be read, the reunion of the individual towards life and its mystery, and the  mechanical prostheses that can amplify the ideas and the body of man.

This is a sculpture, that interacts through a sensor infrared in a random secuence of movements with those produced by the viewer.
The Dragonfly seeks to create the magic of Interactive, to create an environment where technology thanks to the viewer becomes an active part of the artwork and the artist in the person who puts the means to establish this dialogue.

In a time of complex binary and technological means, art should be a mirror of the overall sensitivity, resulting in creations with a dynamic spirit, not forgetting the history and conceptual essence.

In my creations, the importance of uniting tradition, history and technology is essential. The development of man and subsequent sophistication, does not have to lose sight of the primary and essential ideas.

Looking for a contemporary re-reading and endowed with the energies of the era in which we live.

Robotics for the people !!!.........

Text about my activities

Ximo Lizana, lecturer at the prestigious North American University UEM, and multidisciplinary creator within the world of new media art and technological art, has received awards such as the AECA (best living artist in Spain, according to the Spanish critics association). He has been the artistic director at ARCO, tackling the world of advertising, communications and contemporary culture, as well as a consultant and adviser of some of the most avant-garde events, publications and festivals.

His work has been admired at artistic events such as the biennial exhibition in Valencia, in Buenos Aires, and at countless contemporary art festivals, fitting in between the classics that make up some of the best contemporary art collections. Ximo was the first artist in the history of Spanish art to include robotics in contemporary art collections (IVAM). He is currently working on projects for some of the most prestigious galleries, and his work has been exhibited and promoted at galleries such as Galería Punto in Valencia, 57, Marlborough and Vostell, to name a few.

At this year’s edition of ARCO, and following a period of arduous research, he presented the first holographic sculpture made without any type of material (based on electrical fields) of which there is international evidence, Mid Air Shark.
His creative career ranges from robotic, laser and interactive sculpture to aesthetic analysis concerning biotechnology and its dilemmas.
Surfing the new poetics of the digital age, he explores the human-machine relationship and the ethic and moral dilemmas of the coexistence between the cyborg, android and human being.

This project is set in a philosophy consistent with the times in which we live, a result of research on what does not exist or what is to come, giving rise to a nexus between work and prototype, and fleeing from anecdotal art that invades the contemporary world.
It is a proposal in which interactivity becomes a point of inflection when establishing an interactive and dynamic dialogue between the work and the public, and above all between the artistic creation and the concept.

The subject matter tackled is formed in an aesthetic analysis of violence, as well as in a search for technological solutions for specific problems. This search for a break with tradition, by incorporating technological concepts and conceptual aesthetics, leads him to create work that is in constant evolution (capturing the elements of light, heat, image, etc.), in an aim to create a type of work that reacts with energetic exchanges, or even with the subconscious of the person observing the image.

With his photographic proposals, Ximo tries to bring us nearer to a world in which aesthetics, beauty and suffering blend together. Disturbing photographs reflect the force of a tragedy purified with the beauty of Siberia, giving rise to a magma in which the excessively realistic looks on the angelic faces define, accentuate and verify the more than likely apocalyptic end of their existence.
Looks of overwhelming beauty, the aesthetics of extinction, which mask an existence with no possible escape: a blind alley in which context limits existence and survival becomes infinite beauty.

In times of excessive consumerism, lack of values and the loss of identity against the global nature of things, the failure of one’s dreams attempts to be an interlude of reflection on impermanence and its dilemmas.
The photographs are large and the technological language purified in an attempt to reveal humaneness, the machine at the service of man, and the synthetic image under the orders of the soul.

Technology looks for its inspiration in nature, as the unambiguous origin of the referent that has to be reread in this age of sophistication: the re-encounter of the individual confronted by life and its mystery, and the mechanical brainchild as the amplifying prosthesis of man.

CURRICULUM
 

STUDIES & PROFESSIONAL CAREER

1988-1992 Graphic Design Studies, Art School . Huesca
1995-1996 Desktop Publishing Studies, Art School. Huesca
1995 Artist represented by  S,art Gallery. Huesca
1993-1995 Artistic “A Levels” degree and niversity access course ( Selectivo).  Art School.Huesca
1996 Artist represented by  Santa Cruz Gallery. Zaragoza
1996-1997  Image  Synthesis Studies and VR. Paris
1997-2002  Arts degree. Universitat San Carles. Valencia
1998  Exclusive artist represented by  Punto Gallery in Spain  (Valencia)
1998-2001  Didactic Department in IVAM. Valencia
2001 Artistic adviser of leading-edge technology  in Artistic Investigation International Festival OBSERVATORI 00. Generalitat Valenciana.
2002 ARCO Artistic Director (International Contemporary Art Fair ARCO).IFEMA. Madrid
2002 Co-management in   Spacial Project ARCO02 (arq. Vicente Salvador-art. Ximo Lizana).
2001 Curator in technologic art events .E_PRON , May Moré Gallery .
Madrid (co-curator with Pistolo Eliza).
2002 Artist represented by Vostel Fine Arts.ARCO02. Berlin
2003 Awarded Artist with the  Principal hall of the Köln Messe, international selection by the German critics. Colonia. Alemania.
2003 Art Director. Seisgrados Buzz Marketing. Barcelona proyect for Imperial Tobacco
2004 ARCO 04. IFEMA. Madrid
2004  Permanent Exhibition Observatori 04.
2004 Photo NY. Brown Bag Contemporary New York USA
2004 ART L.A, Brown Bag Contemporary. Los Angeles. USA
2004 ART COLOGNE. Köln Messe. KÖlnn. Germany.  
2005 DIVA. Digital and video Art Fair.  Begoña Malone Gallery. Manhattan. NY
2005 FIAC Paris
2005 ARMORY SHOW. International Contemporary Art Fair of NY.ART.ES Space.Pier 90 92 Manhattan ny
2004  Sensor Proyect General Manager , IVAM . Creation of the new IVAM,  Technologic and experimental art museum placed in the palace of arts  CAC (Ciudad de las Artes y Las Ciencias). Valencia
2005-2007 Lecturer in the European University of Madrid. Villaviciosa de Odon. Madrid
2006 Artistic Advisor of Gallery Mestre. Barcelona
2006 Cool Hunting, Duggal, NY
2006 Cubo Project, Cool Hunting. Ariza. Madrid
2007 Investigation in Robotics and Digital Image. Irvine University. California
2007 Eutopia Project.
2008 Solo Exhibition in Sun Contemporary. Seoul
2008 General Curator of Futura Project. Periferias. Huesca
2008 Eutopia. Cordoba

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

1999 Aporias, Punto Gallery. Valencia
1999-2000 Ximo Lizana in Huesca. Interactive work of art exhibition, laser and 3D performances.  Carderera Theatre, Town hall of Huesca.
1999 Performance in  Auditori de Torrent. Valencia
2000  Permanent Exhibition Observatori 00.  Interactive laser and electro-luminiscent sistems,  Principe Felipe Museum. (Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias). Valencia
2001  Permanent Exhibition Observatori 01, Biotechnology and artifcial life.  MUVIM museum  ( Modernity museum of Valencia/ Museo valenciano de la modernidad). Valencia
2001-2002 Total Enclosure,  digital photography and  interactive installations, Galeria 57. Madrid
2001 Biennal of Valencia. Videoroad. Organised by Pistolo Eliza
2002 FIAC PARIS  3D photography and artificial robotic life,One man Show. France
2002  MEDUSA Proyect, ARCO02. Open Space, optical fibre,automatons and  interactive plasma , light sculpture joining pavilions 7 and 9. Aragón Government and  Punto Gallery. Madrid .Organiser: Pedro Pablo Azpeitia
2002 COCOON Project, ARCO02.  Experimental landscape painting project. Azahar. Madrid
2002 METAMORPHOSIS Exhibition in  Punto Gallery. Valencia
2002 CONVERGENCIA Macroinstallacion of ECL for Telefónica ( event presided by D. Jose Maria Aznar), 2  12 metres high  pieces of cloth and 40 metres long  as two ramps emanating light  and covering the whole theatre of the Congress Palace of  Madrid. 
   
AECA Award:Best Alive Spanish Artist in ARCO02.( Spanish Critics Association National Award /Premio nacional de la asociación de críticos españoles).
  
2002  ROBOTICA Individual show room+ 3DY BITMAP in  Marlborough Gallery. Madrid
2002 Contemporary Art Fair of Santander (Conference + work of art in the official section ) , in the  gallery sector  represented by Galeria 57.
2000 CHICAGO ART 2000, Navy Pier. Chicago USA
2000 TORONTO ART FAIR 2000, Toronto. Canada
2000 KÖLN MESSE. Köln,  Germany
2000  PERSONAL EXHiBITIONS FIAC Paris, France
2000 ARCO. Madrid
2001 ART AL HOTEL. Valencia
2001 CHICAGO ART 2001, Navy Pier. Chicago USA
2001 KÖLN MESSE. Köln, Germany
2001 ARCO. Madrid
2001 PERSONAL EXHiBITIONS FIAC.Paris. France
2002 ARCO. Madrid
2002 ARTESANTANDER Gallery 57. Santander
2002 MEETINGS ON VIDEO. Salamanca
2003 PERSONAL EXHiBITONS FIAC.Paris. France
2003  KÖLN MESSE.   ART CONTEMPORARY GALLERIES  GERMAN ASSOCIATION AWARD,  MAIN HALL IN THE FAIR. Robotic macro- installation . Köln. Germany
2003 Biennal exhibition of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires. Argentine..... 2003 Biennal exhibition of Lima. Lima. Perú...... as a representative of Spain, sponsored by   Generalitat Valenciana.
2003 La huella de España en la Habana. Habana, Cuba...... as a representative of Spain, sponsored by   Generalitat Valenciana.
2004 ARCO. Madrid
2004 Theoretician and  adviser of   the internacional art magazine ARTE.ES
2005 ARCO 05, IFEMA. MADRID  Punto Gallery
2005 ARCO 05,  Robotic Angels Project. IVAM
2005  Individual Exhibition Art Gaspart. ENCLOSURE Barcelona.
2005 Biennal of Venice, Art Poles, parallel Project included in the offcial section. Internacional artists museum + withebox NY. Organised by Doron Polack and Juan Puntes. Venice
2006  Individual Exhibition in  Galeria Maliarca, Ximo Lizana Photos and Robots, Alicante
2006 Barcelona Futur,  Barcelona Fair
2006  Arco 06, IFEMA Madrid 
2006  Resources agreement betweeen European University and ARCO.
2006  Scope. Art.es stand.Manhattan, NY
2006  Art Paris. Grand Palais, Paris
2006   Valencia Art Fair, Hotel Astoria. Valencia
2007  ARCO 07. ifema. Madrid
2007 Scope Miami Usa
2007  BIENNAL of VALENCIA-SAO PAULO, MEETING BETWEEN TWO SEAS. Valencia.Spain
2008 ARCO 08. Madrid
2008 Selection of the Culture Ministery, 20 Best Spanish Artists. ARCO 08
2008 International Exhibition Expo Zaragoza 2008
2008 Art Madrid Fair
2008 Tiaf. Toronto Art Fair. Canada
2008 Kiaf. Seoul Art Fair. Shouth Korea
2008 Dubai Art Fair
2008 Valencia Art, Valencia. Spain
2008 Scope NY, Ny. Usa

 
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

1996 Art collection exhibition of  S, Art Gallery. Huesca
1997 Selection of  Young Aragón Expression (Selección de Expresión Joven Aragon), . Zaragoza
1997 Art Collection exhibition of   Sta Cruz Gallery. Zaragoza
1997  Arista Project in collaboration with Mexico, Puebla
1998 Technologic works of art exhibition Javis Center. NY
1998  Rotary exhibition. Tarbes.Francia
1998 Sculpture 1.  La Cisterna theatre.  Aldaya Town Hall.Valencia Organiser:Teresa Cafer:
1999 Ultravanguardia. Punto Gallery + UPV + Auditori de Torrent. Organiser: R. Bochons
1999 In the sheep skin (En la piel del cordero),  Micalet Theatre. Town hall Valencia. Organiser: Angeles Marco
1999  Renau Theatre. UPV. Valencia Organiser: Miguel Molina
1999 Poster Design in  UPV. Vicerrectorado de Cultura. Valencia
2000 Save the Cabanyal (Salvem el Cabayal).  Interactive intervention.Valencia
2000 Performances in the cements work of Burjassot. Valencia Organiser: Miguel Molina
2001 Young Art European Conference.  Aragón Goverrnment. Teruel Organiser: Pedro Pablo Azpeitia
2001  NINPHOMANIA COMPUTER GRAPHICSFOGRFÍAS NINFOMANÍAS), Poetic photographies in the  digital era.  Conde Duque Centre. Madrid. Organiser: Jose Isla
2001 E-PRON.  Technologic art. May Moré Gallery. Madrid
2001 Little Large Architectures (Pequeñas grandes arquitecturas),  Dasto Gallery . Oviedo. Organiser: Fernando Martin
2002 On Gods and Monsters (Sobre Dioses y Monstruos),  Sicart Gallery. Vilafranca del Penedés. Barcelona Organiser: Maria Falagán
2002 Ars Nova Mediterranea. Collection exhibtion IVAM. Valencia
2003 The Role of Art (El papel del Arte). Espacio Liquido Gallery.Gijon .Organiser: Fernando Martín
2003 The Light exhibition (La exposición de la luz). Organiser: M. J. Corominas. Santander
2004 Collective Art collection  exhibition (Exposicion colectiva de fondos) Punto Gallery.Valencia
2004  Baggette Project Generalitat Valenciana.
2004 Great Artists from Aragon (Grandes Artistas Aragoneses),  Sart Gallery. Huesca
2004  KANE Project. Imperial tobacco. USA
2005 Art collection exhibition of S, Art Gallery. Huesca
2005 Art collection exhibition of Punto Gallery. Valencia
2005 Creation of a Letter  Project (Proyecto de creación de una letra).  Aragon Herald.Zaragoza
2005 Exhibition “ Expo universal de: El Agua y la Mirada” , El Instituto Aragonés del Agua, Zaragoza
2006 Art Collection exhibition of  Punto Gallery. Valencia
2006 Conference in Ibercaja Zentrum, Zaragoza
2006 ART TECH MEDIA 06.  Parraga centre. Murcia
2007  Commemorative exhibition on the twenty-five years in Punto Gallery (EXPOSICION CONMEMORATIVA DE LOS 35 AÑOS DE GALERIA PUNTO).Valencia
2007  Digital Generation. Montehermoso Cultural Centre.Vitoria
2007 Exhibition on the twenty-five years in Punto Gallery (Exposicion de los 25 años de Galeria Punto.Galeria Punto). Valencia. 
2008 Art Tech Media 07. Madrid