GREY CUBE PROJECTS

John Angel Rodriguez PHD candidate Goldsmiths, University of London. Advanced Practices. BAGraduated in visual arts of the District University Francisco Jose de Caldas Bogotá, Bachelor’s degree 2005 with an emphasis in New Media. He began his activity as an artist during his studies of fine arts, from 1999 to 2004, participating in university salon halls, art collective exhibitions, open calls and research grant projects. He worked at the National Museum of Colombia, in 2002 at the department of education. He also researched for the department of visual arts at the faculty of arts ASAB contributing to creating the international academic exchange program. From 2015-2017 he worked as a lecturer at The District University Francisco Jose of Caldas Bogotá. He began operating as an independent curator in 2004, Bogotá, and then moved to London in 2007 to perform field research within London’s creative art industries hub. In 2009 he was guest curator for the Embassy of Colombia in London curating the exhibition “EQUILIBRIO” presented at the Southbank Centre. Parallel to his work as an independent curator, he worked at the Saatchi Gallery; one of the projects to highlight this period was “Art Accelerating Art”. In 2011 he graduated from the University of Westminster obtaining his MA Masters in Art & Media Practice. He also received a scholarship from Colfuturo in 2010 to complete his studies in London. Later on, he curated as a graduation dissertations project “Parallel Connections” a group exhibition that addressed the practices of video performance; this was shown at the Wayward Gallery, London. His most recent awards include: The Fellowship for international mobility Colombian Ministry of Culture 2018 to attend as a speaker to MOCA London, international mobility IDARTES 2017 to attend as a speaker to FACT, Liverpool, UK. 2017 Ministry of Culture Colombia research project Warsaw, Poland, presenting a lecture at Lokal_30 Gallery. In 2013, he was granted by the Getty Foundation Los Angeles, USA to attend the annual curatorial conference CIMAM 2013 “New Dynamics in Museums Curator, Artwork & Public Governance” which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he attended as the curator of the exhibition “Digital Analogy: Pioneers of New Media”. In March 2013 he was invited to perform curatorial research in New York, USA, during this residence he gave a Hack TED talk at Eyebeam. Fellowship for international circulation Ministry of Culture Colombia and grantee by ISEA 2012 “Machine Wilderness” Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. In 2011 he co-founded “Digital Attila” a company based in London that was dedicated to making digital solutions for the cultural sector.

To date, he has curated a diverse range of international exhibitions: “Entropic Symbiosis” in Berlin 2019, Art Quarter Budapest Curatorial Residency 2019, Sluice Berlin Exchange 2018, Sluice Biennale London 2017, Exchange Rates and Sluice New York, NY, USA. One in the City of Gdansk, Poland, “Bogota City on the Edge” which is part of the exchange program “Cities on the Edge” Łaźnia, featuring the work of four Colombian artists. (Jaime Avila, Andres Londoño, Adriana Salazar and Alberto Lezaca). In London was the
resident of the curatorial fellowship at Guest Projects, London, presenting the exhibition “Vanishing Points” in July 2014. In Bogotá, he curated in February 2014 the exhibition “Digital Analogy: The pioneers of the New Media”, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Bogotá which counted with the participation of twenty international and three national artists. He curated “Travel to the Unknown” at the Gallery ASAB-Bogota by the polish artist Zuzanna Janin. In 2015 curated the exhibition “Transparency, Fluidity, and Mediation” displaying artworks by recognized international artists like Jenny Holzer, Universal Everything, and Jake & Dinos Chapman. Currently is the curator and director of the independent art platform Grey Cube Projects which creates bilateral collaborations and research projects extracting concepts from techno-scientific knowledge in order to produce art exhibitions. For Grey Cube Projects he has curated more than eighteen shows such as “Non-Organic Life” and “ArtFutura 2015: Collective Intelligence”, “Deconstruction”, “Contra-Natura”, “Multiverse”, “Dark Matter”, “Entropic Symbiosis”, “MIKRON” “Transposition” and the upcoming exhibition “Transition Towards a Planetary Civilization”.

EDUCATION:

2021 PhD Advanced Practices in progress at the Goldsmiths University of London UK.

2011 MA Art and Media Practice

The University of Westminster, London – UK

2008- 2009 Advance level of English, Malvern House English School, London, UK

2006 Seminar Deleuze Thinking and experimentation

Universidad Francisco José de Caldas Bogotá Colombia

2005 Curatorial Seminar

Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá Colombia

2004 Bachelor Fine Arts

Universidad Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá Colombia

2003 – 2005 Certificate in teaching, National Museum of Colombia

° CURATING and curatorial PROJECTS °

2022 MICROGENISIS, Sluice, Lisbon, Portugal.
2021 Ilusión Perceptiva, Galería Espacio Continuo Bogotá-Colombia
2021 Transición Hacia Una Civilización Planetaria, El Parqueadero, Museo Miguel Urrutia del Banco de La Republica, Bogotá-Colombia. Beca de IDARTES. 2021 Laboratorio Transición Hacia Una Civilización Planetaria, PLATAFORMA, Bogotá-Colombia, Beca de IDARTES.
2021 Transición Hacia Una Civilización Planetaria, programa de Concertación del Ministerio de Cultura 2021
2020 Transposición Galería Espacio Continuo, Bogotá
2020 MiKrón Galería Casa Hoffmann, Bogotá
2020 Simbiosis Entrópica, Museo de Arte de Pereira, Risaralda
2019 Transversal Intervention, Residencia curatorial
Art Quarter Budapest, Hungría
2019 Simbiosis Entrópica, GCP, Berlín Alemania
2019 Complejidad Dinámica, GCP, Bogotá

218 Codec-Codex, LA Galeria, Bogotá.

2018 Victorian Times, GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Bogotá.

2018 Contra-Natura Museum of Art Pereira, Pereira, Colombia

2017 Art Fair ARTBO, section ArteCámara, group exhibition, GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Bogotá.

2017 Sluice Biennial, group exhibition, GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Londres, UK

2017 Symbiosis Entropic, group exhibition, GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Estudio 74 Bogotá

2017 Structures, Data & Language, group exhibition, GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Casa4 Bogotá

2017 Contra-Natura, group exhibition, GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Bogotá

2017 ArtFutura 2016, the festival of creativity & technology, Cine Tonala, Bogotá

2017 Anthropic Risk, group exhibition, LA Galería, Bogotá.

2017 MULTIVERSE, group exhibition, GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Bogotá

2017 Transcription, group exhibition, PLECTO, Gallery, Medellín

2016 Transversal Interventions, group exhibition, GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Bogotá

2016 Art Fair ODEON, group exhibition, GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Bogota.

2016 Sluice Biennial, Exchange Rates group exhibition, GREY CUBE PROJECTS, New York, NY, USA

2016 Escaping from the infinite maze, Len Murusalu(Estonia) GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Bogotá.

2016 Dark Matter, group exhibition, GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Bogotá.

2016 Everybody wants to be Happy, James Unsworth (UK), SoloShow GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Bogotá

2016 Breaking Views David Palacios (Cuba) solo show, GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Bogotá

2016 Transcription,  collective exhibition, Casa Hoffmann, Bogotá

2016 Deconstruction, GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Bogotá

2015 ArtFutura 2015, group exhibition GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Bogotá

2015 Non-Organic Life, group exhibition, GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Bogotá

2015 PERMANENTE, GREY CUBE PROJECTS, Bogotá.

2015 Transparency, Fluidity and Mediation, Sala ASAB

2014 Travel to the Unknown, Zuzanna Janin, Sala ASAB

2014 Vanishing Points, Guest Projects, London

2014 Digital Analogy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogotá.

2013 Bogota a City on the Edge, Laznia, Gdansk, Poland

2013 Mediators The Wayward Gallery, London UK

ISEA 2012 Conference Speaker-Project: Bodies in Transition, Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness

2011 Art Accelerating Art, interactive and participatory Guided tour, The Saatchi Gallery, London

2011 Parallel Connections Wayward Gallery, London

2009 EQUILIBRIO, Bernie Spain Gardens, OXO Tower Wharf- South Bank, London, UK.

2007-DIVERGENTES, Gallery, Casa Cuadrada, Bogotá-Zurich

2006 DROIDS, Cinemateca Distrital, Bogotá

2006 DIGITAL/ANALOGUE, Exhibition Hall ASAB, Bogotá

2005 META/HUMANOS, Galería Espacio Alterno de Uniandinos, Bogotá

° INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS as an artist °

2006 GENESTETICA, Galería Espacio Alterno Uniandinos, Bogotá

2005 Redefine the Body, Museum of Contemporary Art Bogotá

° GROUP EXHIBITIONS as an artist °

2011 10 Gales Gallery Prize, Bethnal Green, London

Video Installation The Winter Market

2007-III Biennal ASAB Urban Practices, Exhibition Hall ASAB, Bogotá

VERSUS, Galería Artespacio, Bogotá

LOS GIACOMETTI, Galería EL GARAJE, Bogotá

2006 PARAREAL, Artecamara, Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá

N.N- Portraits of the 20th Century, Galeria el Garage, Bogotá

Latín Lover, Galería el Garaje, Bogotá

2005 FORMATO REGALO, Exhibition Design & Objects Proyecta Design, Bogotá

Video animation, Publications Thynner (Video) Museum of Modern Art Bogotá

INTERFERENCIAS, Foundation Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá

XXII Festival de Cine de Bogotá, Room Oriol Rangel, Bogotá

9th. National Salon of Young Art, Foundation Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá

Exhibition Hall COFAMDI, Cali Colombia

Museum of the University of Antioquia Medellín, Colombia

2004 1st. DIGITAL ART SALON, FUNDACION GILBERTO ALZATE AVENDAÑO

ARTRONICA II International EXHIBITION of Electronics Arts, LUIS ÁNGEL ARANGO Library, Bogotá

2002 GRAFICA/GRAFICO, Printmaking Exhibition, COOPERARTES, Bogotá KENT EXPLORA DIGITAL VIDEO, Centre of design Portobello, Bogota

GRATIS EN TELEVISION, Exhibition Hall, LEÓN DE GREIFF Auditorium, National University of Colombia, Bogotá

PHILIPS Young Art, 2nd.Edition Digital Art, National Museum of Colombia, Bogotá

2001 SIN FORMATO IV, National Audio-visual Encounter, Short Film Makers Bogotá, Cali, Manizales & Bucaramanga, Colombia

6th. NATIONAL UNIVERSITY SALON, Gallery FENALCO, Bogotá

PHILIPS YOUNG ART 1ST.EDITION DIGITAL ART, Show Room PHILLIPS, Bogotá

2000 Sin Formato III audiovisual encounter of TV and Film Directors, Theatre El Parque, Bogotá

1999 THE COMIC EXPRESS, Gallery CONVENIO ANDRÉS BELLO, Bogotá

PRIZES AND DISTINCTIONS

2018 Thinking Laboratory, Molecular Revolution, Plataforma Canibal, Barranquilla-Colombia.

2018 Thinking Laboratory, Casa Tres Patios, Medellin-Colombia.

2017 IDARTES Scholarship for international mobility.

Academic Presentation, “Symbiosis entropic” FACT, Liverpool, UK

2016 Ministry of Culture Colombia grant for international mobility

Peripheral Politics, Warsaw, Poland

2013 Travel Grant Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, USA CIMAM Conference

2012 ISEA Albuquerque: Machine wilderness

Ministry of Culture Colombia Colombia, Scholarship for international mobility

2001 Engraving Prize: Lorenzo Jaramillo A.S.A.B, Instituto Distrital de Cultura & Turismo, Bogotá

1999 Scholarship to the Creation of Comics in Collage

Program Imagination at the UMBRAL, Prizes to the Arts 1999

Instituto Distrital de Cultura y Turismo, Bogota, Colombia

PUBLICATIONS

2014

Bogota City on the edge catalogue

Digital Analogy catalogue

2013

CIMAM report of grantees

2006 Digital/Analogy, Catalogue Publication

Magazines Número, Editions: 34, 35, 36, 39, 41, 43, 44, 46 & 47

2005 Thynner DVD, Young Art Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá

Meta/Humanos, Interactive CD Catalogue

2004 ARTRONICA Second International Show Electronic Arts, Catalogue, Publication

2002 KENT EXPLORA, Interactive CD, Video Digital Art