ALBERTO BARREIRO

PERSONAL DATA

Pontevedra (Spain), 3 / 8 / 1968

Address: Flat 3b 332, Kingsland Rd. London E8 4DA (UK)

Avda. Fernández Ladreda 19 5ºB –36003- Pontevedra (Spain)

Phone N.: 0044 -(0) 7 932 574 058 (UK)

0034 - 986 858869 (Spain)

I´ve been working on computer graphics for more than ten years, mainly in my work as a visual artist. That´s how I learned to use and combine different digital tools, from vector graphics to video edition and 3D, I think that this flexibility could be one of my best skills, as well I think that my knowledge of theory of art and my experience as an artist gives me a deep visual culture that can be necesary for some kind of jobs.

MEDIA SKILLS

Image programs:

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Corel Draw

Corel Photo Paint

Adobe Page Maker

QuarkXpress

Autodesk 3D Studio 4

Kinetix 3D Studio MAX 2.5

Vista Pro

Adobe Premiere

Ulead Media Studio Pro 5

Ulead GIF Animator

Picture Works (for Quick Time animations)

Studio MP10 (for capture and streaming edition)

HTML

VRLM and Active Worlds building

Macromedia Dreamweaver 3

Microsoft Front Page

Adobe Page Mill

Macromedia Flash 4

MEDIA EXPERIENCE

During the last 2 years I worked as a freelance designer in the following areas:

3D design

3D video of one virtual exhibition on the building 1998 of the Galician Center for Contemporary Arts, CGAC.

Design and layout of differents books and art catalogues.

Catalogue for Emergency, art exhibition. 1999

Catalogue for an exhibition, Atlantic Forum for Contemporary Art 1999, International Art Fair. 1999

Corporate image, book design and layout of the International Congress of Color. 1998

Catalogue for an exhibition, 20 Cuban Artists. 1998

Web designer (commercial pages)

ANIMAX MultimediaTheater, WorldWide Project EXPO2000 Hannover: http://www.animax.de/, 2000

UNXposed Video Art Agenda, http://www.unxposed.com/, 1999/00

Atlantic Forum for Contemporary Art, http://www.foroatlantico.com/, 1999

Teacher

Teaching in the subjet Computer Graphics. Facultad de Bellas Artes de Pontevedra, 1998

Teaching in some short courses about CAD: 1997/98

- Corel Draw and Corel Photo Paint

- 3D Studio 4

- Basic Web Design

Teaching in the subjet Elementos Gráfico-Plásticos. (Artistic Drawing). Facultad de Bellas Artes de Pontevedra, 1997

Ponent in Realidad Virtual y visualización avanzada” 1997 (Virtual Reality and advanced visualisation)

Fundación Alfredo Brañas. Poio, Pontevedra.

Ponent in El ordenador en la educación plástica. (Computers in Art Education) 1996/97 CEFOCOP. Consellería de Educación. Pontevedra.

I am a practising visual artist and I use multi-media as an integral part of my artistic process. Below I have laid out how I use various packages in my practice.

- Internet. It´s one of the conceptual basis of my work. I create my pictures and videos from others founded on the web.

- Video Edition. I use this small videos or secuences of pictures from the Internet to create video installations (with Adobe Premiere mainly), sometimes I work with web cams to do photographs and videos.

- Digital Image. Also I made big format pictures from this material with the help of image programs like Adobe Photoshop.

- Vector Image programs are used for text based works and acetate cut-outs.

- Web design, it´s other of my aesthetic basis, in someway I´m trying to traslate screens into objets. As well I did some artistic oriented pages: www.egomata.co.uk

- I work with 3D in two different ways:

as sketch of the installations.

As artist work itself, photographs of screens with 3d empty spaces or 3d lanscapes.

EDUCATION

M.A. in Twenty Century Art Studies, Winchester School of Art. (not finished), Southampton University, UK. 1998/ 200

Doctoral courses. Las Categorías de lo escultórico. Universidad de Vigo. 1996/98

Bachelor´s degree in Fine Arts. Facultad de Bellas Artes de Pontevedra. Universidad de Vigo. 1995

Las tecnologías digitales de la imagen en la práxis artística actual. 1998

Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de Pontevedra.

Rostro@representación, Taller Manuel Saiz, ARTELEKU, San Sebastián. 1997

Taller ZUSH, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo. Santiago de Compostela. 1997

Realidad Virtual y Visualización avanzada. Fundación Alfredo Brañas. 1996

Arte y Filosofía. C.G.A.C., Santiago de Compostela. 1996

Taller CHISTRIAN BOLTANSKI. C.G.A.C., Santiago de Compostela. 1996

Taller DAN GRAHAM. C.G.A.C., Santiago de Compostela. 1995

Universidad de Vigo, summer courses: 1992/98

Mitos de Fin de Milenio.

La conveniencia del Romanticismo.

Hacia una psicología del Arte.

La escultura y la idea. Proceso estético, proceso industrial.

Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de Pontevedra, different courses about: silkprinting, printing,

video, photography, etc...

ARTISTIC CV

SOLO ART EXHIBITIONS

Una simple cuestión de combinatoria, Galería Sargadelos. Santiago de Compostela. 1998

El Jardín de La Vida Artificial, Galería Anexo. Pontevedra. 1998

Paul Klee Gallery. Colony Alpha 0N 15W, ( www.activeworlds.com). 1996

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Selected for the Bienal de Pontevedra 2000 . 2000

Lost in Sound, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela. 2000

Colectiva Galería Sicar, Vilafranca del Penedés, Barcelona. 2000

ARCO 2000, (Galería Marisa Marimón), Madrid. 2000

Openning of UNXPOSED VideoArtGide, London. 1999

Emergencia, Galería Sargadelos, Santiago de Compostela. 1999

IV Foro Atlántico de Arte Contemporáneo, Pontevedra. 1999

XIV Festival Audiovisual de Vitoria-Gasteiz. 1999

Bienal de Arte de Vilanova de Cerveira (Portugal). 1999

Mostra Unión Fenosa, La Coruña. 1999

Novos Camiñantes. Casa da Cultura, Pontevedra. 1999

XIII Bienal de Arte Ciudad de Oviedo. Oviedo. 1998

...in corpore sano... Casa das Artes. Concello deVigo. 1998

Re-huevo el nuevo. Facultad de Bellas Artes de Pontevedra. Pontevedra. 1998

Bienal de Nuevos Valores 97. Diputación Provincial de Pontevedra. 1997

Huevo el nuevo. Sala de Arte Joven de La Comunidad de Madrid. Madrid. 1997

Galicia Terra Única. Galicia Hoxe. Fundación Barrié de La Maza. La Coruña. 1997

Arte y nihilismo. Casa das Artes. Concello de Vigo. 1997

III Bienal Laxeiro. Lalín. Pontevedra. 1997

Caleidoscope, certamen de videocreación. Pontevedra. 1996

Homenaje a Pablo Ruiz Picasso. Concello da Coruña. 1995

El presente como un acontecimiento a tener en cuenta. Galería Volter. Orense 1995

30 anos no 2000, Artistas galegos para un fin de milenio. Santiago de Compostela 1994

Lacón & Grelos. Knights Park Gallery, Kingston University. Kingston upon Thames. UK. 1994

Insinuacións. Facultade de Belas Artes, Pontevedra. 1993

First European Exchange Exhibition. Cambury Park Gallery. Kingston upon Thames. UK. 1992

SEMINARS

Ponent in Mitos de Fin de Milenio. Summer courses of the University of Vigo. 1998

Teaching in the subjet Arte y Ordenador. Facultad de Bellas Artes de Pontevedra. 1998

Member of the organitation comitte Congreso Internacional sobre el Color. Universidad de Vigo. 1997

Ponent in La Restauración y el Arte Contemporáneo. Universidad de Vigo. 1997

Teaching in the subjet Elementos Gráfico-Plásticos. Facultad de Bellas Artes de Pontevedra. 1997

Ponent in Realidad Virtual y visualización avanzada”, Fundación Alfredo Brañas. Poio, Pontevedra. 1996

Ponent in El ordenador en la educación plástica. 1995/97

CEFOCOP. Consellería de Educación. Pontevedra.

PUBLICATIONS

UNXposed VideoArt Agenda, Online guide, London. 1999

Egómatas in the book of the course: Mitos de Fin de Milenio. Universidad de Vigo .1998

Book of the congress: Conservación de Bienes Culturales. Universidad de Vigo. 1997

Book of the congress: Congreso Internacional del Color. Universidad de Vigo. 1997

El infinito entre 0 y 1. Arte y Nihilismo. Revista de Estudios Provinciales de la Diputación de Pontevedra.1997

El Hombre del Siglo XXI. El Correo Gallego. 1995

Edition of La Ventana. Art magazine. 1994

Other Internet art features:

UNXposed VideoArt Agenda (1999/00) http://www.unxposed.com

Surface Invaders (1999) http://www.azar.ms/egomata

Una simple cuestión de combinatoria(1998) http://www.geocities.com/Soho/Workshop/5882/

The Center of The Web(1997) http://www.ctv.es/USERS/abarreiro/welcome

La isla (1997) http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/1542

Paul´s Klee Gallery (1996) http://synergycorp.com/nod/gallery/index

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

“Transfer 2000, Spanien-Nordrhein-Westfalen”. 2000

Critics Prize, IV Foro Atlántico de Arte Contemporáneo . 1999

Selected Work in “Mostra Unión Fenosa”. La Coruña. 1999

Scholarship for foreing studies Caixa Galicia. 1998

Winchester School of Art. Southampton University, UK.

First Premium Nuevos Valores Diputación Provincial de Pontevedra. 1997

Scholarship in the Facultad de Bellas Artes de Pontevedra. 1997/98

Erasmus. Kingston University. London. 1995

First European Exchange Kingston University. London. 1992

HOBBIES

Surfing, computer games, chess, and to play bass and drums.

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