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Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Mario de Vega. B. Mexico City, 1979.
Sound and visual artist focused in incidental relations between spaces, users and objects. His activity moves between real-time signal processing for sound improvisation with homemade and trashed electronics, video manipulation with digital devices, 2D/3D graphical data simulation and site specific projects.
Nowadays, he is supported by the Coinvertion Program for Cultural Projects of Mexico (2004-2005) to develop interactive sound installations for blind children in the National School for the Blind in Mexico City (printed and multimedia catalogue). Also, he is Artist in Residence at the Multimedia Center and scholarship holder by (CONACULTA-CENART) for New Media Art projects, Mexico City (2004-2006).
His work is part of the Sound Art Magazine RAS7, edited in the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha: Centro de Creación Experimental, Facultad de Bellas Artes (Spain, 2005), Brian Conley’s Linear X Catalogue (NYC, 2005) and Excavation Sonore Catalogue of Avatar Art Audio (Quebec, 2003).
He has performed in Quebec, United States, Spain, London and Mexico.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Yes, always as a freestyle sound improvisation with handmade electronics, Max/MSP patches and other devices.
Your musical influences
John Oswald, Chritian Marclay, Milan Knizak, Bernard Parmegiani, Otomo Yoshihide, Ossatura, Bob Ostertag, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, etc.
What equipment do you use?
Max/MSP, TELEO modules, speak and spell / leap pads devices, joysticks, homemade electronics, turntables, samplers and MIDI controllers.
Anything else?
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