Israel Lopez

Mexican digital artist, PhD in Art and Culture, Master of Arts for Architecture, Art and Design Division of the University of Guanajuato. His work is constituted in the manipulation of digital media and its relationship with the human body, creating interaction interfaces with the digital world implementing technology as a fundamental part of the creative process, he studied composition and Latin percussion in the city of Guanajuato, He has been a beneficiary of FONCA Jovenes Creadores in the category of audiovisual media, his work has been published in various media and festivals, including ISEA International, Balance Unbalance in the United Kingdom, Sound Image Colloquium at Greenwich University, etc., is a founder from the nullpixel artistic experimentation laboratory with whom he has produced pieces for the Circle of Light, Moscow, iMapp Bucharest, Novi light sensation in Italy, Japan, Belgium, Ukraine, among others. He currently develops research on the implementation of new media in arts, specializing in interactive systems, non-conventional projection and digital humanities.

2021, special mention: The symbolic domain of absence: speculative design of a city from memories. International Image Festival. Manizales, Caldas, Colombia.

2021, grant from “Jovenes Creadores 2021-2022”, Medios Alternativos y Performance.

2019, first Prize, CONQUER, Novi light sensation, Italy.

2018, Official Selection, iMApp Bucharest, Romania.

2018, First Prize, IMAGO, The Zsolnay Festival of Ligth, Pécs - Hungary.

2017, Second Prize, CRONOS the nocturne of the citadel / BAM FESTIVAL, Belgium. Second Price.

2017, MACONDO. Oddesa Light Festival, Ukraine.

2017, Official Selection. VISUAL MUSIC ALGORITHMIC COMPOSITION FOR FULL DOME EXPERIMENTAL 3D GRAPHICS.

2016, Bordos ArtWorks Prize, INTERNATIONAL PROJECTION MAPPING COMPETITION NIIGATA.

2010 to present, Founder, NomadLab.

2010 to present, Founder, NullPixel Research and Production Lab.

2014 - 2018, teacher Assistance Digital Arts degree program, Universidad de Guanajuato.

2011 - 2016, productor and Research Assistant Opera and new technologies workshop, Institute of Culture.

2012 - 2014, art editor assistant RUPKATHA Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities.

2010, Grant from “Estímulos para la Creación y desarrollo Artístico”, Interactive Installation "TRANSdérmico"

EXHIBITIONS
2023
A PLACE CALLED SECLUSIA. Immersive experience. Edward James Museum. Xilitla, San Luis Potosí,
Mexico.

2020
BALCONADAS DE GUANAJUATO, Collective exhibition. International Cervantino Festival. Peace
Square. Guanajuato, Mexico.
NINE FROM GUANAJUATO. GEMINI. Collective exhibition. International Cervantino Festival, Diego
Rivera House Museum. Guanajuato, Mexico.

2019
CONQUER, Novi Light Sensation. Festival della luce. Novi Ligure, Italia.
UNCONSTRUCTURE, Museo de la ciudad de Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.

2018
MOYOCOYANI, 1 Minute Projection Mapping in Miyazaki, Japan.
LÍMBICO, SSA Mapping Festival, Fórum Ruy Barbosa, Brazil.
POLAR INERTIA (Paul Virilio tribute) Odessa Light Fest, Ukraine.
UMBRAL, IBIZA light Festival, Spain.
ARISE lumina Nouva, iMapp, Bucharest, Romania.
IRIDESCENT, Art Vision Contest, Circle of light, Moscow, Russia.
EPHEMERAL, exhibition at Les Rencontres Audiovisuelles 2018, France.
LUMINA, Les Rencontres Audiovisuelles, France.
LL1 Machine (data visualization, 360° immersive experience) Burning Man, Black Rock, Nevada, USA.

2017
IMAGO, THE ZSOLNAY FESTIVAL OF LIGHT Pécs - Hungary
CIE-10 CapV(F00-F09). Sound Image Colloquium, Greenwich University, UK.
MORPHOLOGY FOR MICROCELLULAR INJECTION. Immersphere FullDome Festival, Brasilia, Brazil.
INMATERIAL. Day of the Dead, San Miguel de Allende, Gto, MX. NullPixel Research Production Lab
collaboration Myrna Quiñonez and Agence 5970.
INTERSECTIONAL MVNDI. ART VISION, Circle of Light Festival, Moscow, Rusia.
CRONOS. La nocturne des coteaux de la citadelle, BAM Festival, Belgium.
MACONDO. Oddesa Light Festival, Ukraine.
LIMINALITY. Hikari no Hiroki, 2017. Japan.
EQUAL LUMINUS. The Zsolnay Festival of Light. Huungary.
PAXX. Textil Pattern Sound Machine. The 23rd Intenational Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA 2017. Manizales, Caldas. Colombia.
DIATRIBE OF THE UNSENSE. Kyiv Lights Festival 2017. River Port on Poshtova Square. Ukranie.
MORPHOLOGY FOR MICROCELLULAR INJECTION, FullDome Project. Balance-Unbalance conference in Plymouth, UK.
MORPHOLOGY FOR MICROCELLULAR INJECTION. Visual Music Algorithmic Composition for Full
Dome Experimental 3D Graphics. Planetario. Parque Estatal Urbano Barranca de Chapultepec. Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico.