Tomas Laurenzo Explained

Tomas Laurenzo
Birth Date:1977
Birth Place:Uruguay
Alma Mater:University of the Republic (Uruguay)
Thesis Title:Decoupling and context in new media art
Thesis Url:https://www.colibri.udelar.edu.uy/jspui/handle/20.500.12008/2908
Doctoral Advisor:Alvaro Casinelli
Known For:New media art, Artificial intelligence art
Website:https://laurenzo.net/

Tomas (Tom) Laurenzo Coronel (Montevideo, 1977) is an Uruguayan artist, engineer, academic, musician, writer, and designer. With a wide range of artistic practices and research interests, Laurenzo's production often necessitate to reflect particularly on new technologies, art, and the politics of meaning.[1]

Biography

Laurenzo received a BSc degree in computer science (CS) from University of the Republic (UdelaR) followed by MSc and PhD degrees in CS from PEDECIBA, a joint program by UdelaR and Uruguay's Ministry of Education and Culture. His doctoral advisor was Alvaro Cassinelli[2] from University of Tokyo.

After completing his first graduate program, Laurenzo's focus shifted from industry to art and academia. He subsequently held the position of associate professor at University of the Republic, where he founded and directed Uruguay's first research group on new media and HCI, followed by UdelaR's Core Group on HCI research.[3] [4] [5]

In 2014, Laurenzo relocated to Hong Kong and assumed the role of assistant professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, under the leadership of the renowned Australian new media artist Jeffrey Shaw. Since 2021 and as of 2023, Laurenzo holds the Associate Professor of Critical Media Practices position within the College of Media, Communication, and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Laurenzo has also held shorter academic positions at prestigious institutions, such as visiting scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT,[6] research fellow at Microsoft Research, visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, guest lecturer at Brunel University London, and visiting artist at University of Iowa.[7]

Career

During his tenure in the private sector, Laurenzo led the design and development of Uruguay's first governmental internet portal and Uruguay's first publicly accessible governmental database.[8] Laurenzo has also made significant contributions to Uruguay's academic, artistic, and research landscapes.[9] [10]

Laurenzo's pioneering efforts in Uruguay include authoring the first MSc. and PhD theses in the fields of new media art, HCI, and politics, establishing the first research group dedicated to these areas, founding the first interdisciplinary research group on HCI, teaching the first undergraduate courses on real-time computer graphics, physical computing, video games, new media art, and creative coding, teaching the first graduate course on new media art, advising the first two MSc theses (since Laurenzo's own), and exhibiting both the first small and large-scale interactive artworks. Some of these projects led to Laurenzo receiving some of the first-ever international awards for new media art in Uruguay.[11] [12] [13]

Laurenzo's projects include Awkward Consequence (with Christian Clark and Tobias Klein), the world's first-ever massive VR performance, NEXO (with Gustavo Armagno et al.), which leveraged real-time computer vision improving OLPC's XOs usability for motor-impaired children, and The Vision Machine, an audiovisual performance using real-time VR-mediated wetware on stage.

Laurenzo's strong interest in social, political and geopolitical topics are often noticeable in his art-making. Notable examples include the artworks 5500, Nibia, Be water, Homs, and Smile, which explore the topics of illegal immigration, the death by torture of Nibia Sabalsagaray, the Siege of Homs, the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, and the destruction of the Gaza Strip, respectively.

Laurenzo has performed or exhibited at SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, NIME, ISEA,[14] NeurIPS,[15] ECCV, Sónar+D, MUTEK,[16] TEI, C3A, NYIT, ECCV, Osage Gallery, ANTEL, EAC, UdelaR, MSR, Presidency of Uruguay, Saatchi & Saatchi, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Goethe Institut, International Computer Music Conference, K11 Art Foundation, MNAV, Montevideo Exhibition Center, City Theatre,[17] Chapelle des Bernardines, and the Solís Theatre, among others.

Partial list of exhibited artworks

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tomas Laurenzo. November 16, 2020. College of Media, Communication and Information.
  2. Web site: Alvaro CASSINELLI – CityU Scholars A Research Hub of Excellence . 2023-06-29 . scholars.cityu.edu.hk . en.
  3. Web site: Interacción Persona-Computadora (NICHI) . 2023-09-30 . Patio Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo Udelar.
  4. Web site: 2019-03-19 . Events Calendar . 2023-06-29 . Boulder Daily Camera . en-US.
  5. Web site: Creative Tech Week . 2023-06-29 . www.ctw.nyc . en-US.
  6. Web site: Tomas LAURENZO CORONEL 2018 . 2023-06-29 . Global Community Bio Summit . en-US.
  7. Web site: Art (and Politics) in Hong Kong, Dr. Laurenzo Visiting Artist in Animation . 2023-06-29 . events.uiowa.edu.
  8. Web site: todouy.com . Todo.com.uy – La Guía del Uruguay . 2023-09-30 . todo.com.uy . spanish.
  9. Web site: 2014-01-24 . Entrevista a Delma Rodriguez – Uruguay . 2023-10-28 . Bienal Kosice . es.
  10. News: October 2009 . Daniel Argente: Las nuevas tecnologías y el arte . 3–6 . La Pupila . live . 27 Oct 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210227163347/https://www.revistalapupila.com/pdf/pupila10.pdf . 27 Feb 2021.
  11. Web site: Udelar Expedient. 2023-09-30 . www.expe.edu.uy.
  12. Web site: 2012-12-20 . Facing Interaction . 2023-09-30 . Microsoft Research . en-US.
  13. Web site: Udelar Expedient. 2023-09-30 . www.expe.edu.uy .
  14. Web site: paula . 2016-06-20 . Ciborgues da contrarrevolução . 2023-06-29 . Revista Select . pt-BR.
  15. Web site: tomas laurenzo Archives . 2023-06-29 . AI Art Gallery . en.
  16. Web site: MUTEK.AR develó la primera ola de artistas confirmados . 2023-06-29 . www.djmagla.com . es.
  17. Web site: Performances . 2023-12-07 . www.cs.cmu.edu.
  18. Web site: Arts Machine . Arts Machine.
  19. https://www.drha.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/DRHA2019_ConferenceProceedings_compressed-1-1.pdf
  20. Coronel . Tomas LAURENZO . 2017-05-28 . Ekphrasis . Proceedings of the Taboo, Transgression and Transcendence in Art & Science Conference, TTT2017. . English . Ionian University.
  21. Simple Background Noise: Movement and Stillness. Tomas. Laurenzo. April 11, 2018. scholars.cityu.edu.hk.
  22. Web site: Tomas Laurenzo | Metal Magazine. metalmagazine.eu.
  23. Web site: 2016-08-10 . Tomas Laurenzo llega a Sant Antoni de mano del BLOOP Festival . 2023-06-29 . Periódico de Ibiza y Formentera . es.
  24. Web site: ibiza . redacción . 2016-08-09 . Una videoinstalación y un corto en Sa Punta des Molí . 2023-06-29 . Diario de Ibiza . es.
  25. Web site: The Vision Machine – Sónar+D · – Sónar Hong Kong 2017. Sónar Hong Kong.
  26. Web site: On the Basis of Face: Biometric Art as Critical Practice, its History and Politics « INC Longform . 2023-06-29 . en-US.
  27. Web site: Elephant (with Tony Tackling). soundcloud.com.
  28. Coronel . Tomas LAURENZO . 2015-07-01 . 5500 . English.
  29. Web site: Lituania Lituania.
  30. Web site: Facultad de Ingenieria . Celebra at UdelaR . fing.edu.uy.
  31. Web site: CMMR 2013 Marseille . 2023-06-29 . cmmr2013.prism.cnrs.fr.
  32. Web site: Interactive Performance . 2023-06-29 . www.cs.cmu.edu.
  33. Web site: son. www.youtube.com.
  34. Web site: Medialab // Net . 2023-10-06 . www.fing.edu.uy.
  35. https://narkolepsy.weebly.com/uploads/1/5/0/5/15058708/nk_bilan_playin_2011.pdf
  36. Web site: Projet de spécialité Ensimag – Suivi de personnes pour une installation interactive . 2023-06-29 . iihm.imag.fr.
  37. Web site: Eduardo Lamas (Filmmaker) / Lamas Films. Eduardo Lamas.
  38. Web site: Grupo 180 . Fusión de música y poesía . 2023-06-29 . www.180.com.uy . es-UY.
  39. Web site: Medialab // publications . 2023-06-29 . www.fing.edu.uy.

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