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EXHIBITS   (selection)

2017                 --Eccentric Spaces

                                   -Museum da Guarda, Guarda, Portugal.

2012                 --The TXL-plus Nano Gate (short film co-directed with Stephan Hüsch)

                                   -Babylon Kino, Berlin, Germany.

--Hermafrodita (multi-touch installation co-produced with Quarta Parede and Master of Design, UBI)

           -Museum dos Lanificios, Covilhã, Portugal

2011                 --Reflecting JCC, Brain Research II (interactive installation)

-Puertas de Castilla, Culture Centre of the Murcia Town Hall, Spain.

2010                 --Corpo Memória Desperdício (interactive installation)

                                   - Teatro das Beiras, Covilhã, Portugal

2009                 --Reflecting JCC, Brain Research II (interactive installation)

-ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany.

-Puertas de Castilla, Culture Centre of the Murcia Town Hall, Spain.    

2008                 --JCC revisited, Brain Research II (interactive Installation)

-MEIAC Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain

--Reflecting JCC, Brain Research II (interactive Installation)

           -Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijón, Spain.

           -ARTECH, International Conference on Digital Art, Porto, Portugal.

--Inmersión e Interactividad (graphic work)

-ARCO’08, Madrid, Spain

2005                 --Mimesis II (virtual reality installation)

-OFF-ICMC (International Computer Music Conference), Barcelona, Spain.

-Virtuality International Conference, Centro Congressi Torino Incontra, Italy.

2004                 --Mímesis (virtual reality installation)

-CIBER@RT, Bilbao, Spain.

2003                 --Microworlds, Sirens and Argonauts (virtual reality installation)

-ISAMA-BRIDGES, Granada, Spain.

-MULTIMEDI@S, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Tenerife, Spain.

2002                 --Microworlds, Sirens and Argonauts (virtual reality installation)

-Permanently exhibited at the Museum of Science Kutxa Espacio, San Sebastian, Spain.

-CIBERVISION, Madrid.

--El Dragón de Malena, stereoscopic computer animation (art and technical director).

- Permanently exhibited at the Museum of the Castle of Santa Catalina, Jaén, Spain.

2001                 --Mímesis (virtual reality installation)

-ARTFUTURA, Barcelona, Spain.

2000                 --Microworlds, Sirens and Argonauts (virtual reality installation)

                                   -WORLDART, Aalborg, Denmark.

                                   -IMAGINA, Monaco.

                        --Microworlds (stereoscopic diorama projection)

                                   -University of the Basque Country Audiovisual Art Show, Spain.

1999                 --Microworlds, Sirens and Argonauts (virtual reality installation)

-SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, USA.

-Interactive Frictions, Los Angeles, USA.

1996           --Todo Fluye Computer Graphics Exhibition, Bank of Spain Art Gallery, exhibited in the following places: Lerida, Sevilla, and Balearic Islands, Spain.

1995             --Experimentelle Untersuchung Fraktaler Strukturen im Virtuallen Raum (virtual reality installation)

                                    -Museum of Art Reina Sofia (video demo), Madrid, Spain.

1994                 --Monographic

                                   -Museum of Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.

                        --The virtual maid, interactive virtual actor (art and technical director).

-Domotecnia (home appliances fair), Köln, Germany.

1993                 --JCC (Brain Research II) (interactive installation)

                                   -VIII Music Video Festival of Vitoria, Spain.

                        --My Strange Sexual Behavior (computer animation)

                                   -Screened on Channel I, Spanish TV

                                   -ARCO'93, Special Award in Computer Animation, Madrid, Spain.

                                   -Computer Graphics Exhibition, Museum of Art of Bilbao, Spain.

--Experimentelle Untersuchung Fraktaler Strukturen im Virtuallen Raum

                                   -Screened on Canal +, La2 (Spanish TV), ETB I (Basque TV).

1992             --Experimentelle Untersuchung Fraktaler Strukturen im Virtuallen Raum (virtual reality installation)

-Bienal de la Imagen (video demo), Museum of Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.

                        --FloatingFeelings (computer animation)

                                   -International Video Film Festival of Canarias, Spain.

                                   -Bienal de la Imagen, Museum of Art Reina Sofia, Spain.

                                   -International Animation Festival, Teruel, Spain.

1991                 --Terra (computer animation)

                                   -V Video Festival of Sevilla, Spain.

                                   -University of the Basque Country Video Festival, Spain.

                                   -Museum of Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.

1990                 --What TV sees what mummy did (video)

                                   -International Video Festival of Vigo, Spain.

                        --Egipto como Excusa (video)

                                   -Sammer Gallery, Madrid, Spain.

                        --Brain Research (video)

                                   -III Video Festival of Valencia, Spain.

                                   -VI International Film Festival of Women, Madrid, Spain.

                                   -University of the Basque Country Video Festival, Spain.

1989                 --Inside the sitting room while mummy is watching TV (video)

                        --Mummy found out the TV's cathode ray tube (video)

                                   -AVE'90 Audiovisual Experimenteet Festival, The Netherlands.

                                   -II Video Festival of Valencia, Spain.

                                   -V International Film Festival of Women, Madrid, Spain.

1988                 --Conexiones Tectopontinas (video installation)

                                   -II Video Festival of the Basque Country, Spain.

 

 

SELECTED   INVITED   TALKS   and   PRESENTATIONS

--University of Murcia, Fine Arts, 2017, master class "Urban Projections and Video mapping: state of the art, concepts and techniques", Murcia, Spain.
--University of Salamanca, Fine Arts, 2017, master class "Urban Projections and Video mapping: state of the art, concepts and techniques", Salamanca, Spain.
--University of the Basque Country, Fine Arts, 2015, master class "Stereoscopic Moving Image:, concepts and techniques", Basque Country, Spain.
--University of Murcia, Fine Arts, 2015, seminar "Procesos de Creación en el Documental Experimental El Universo Excéntrico: la Percepción Espacial y la Estereoscopía", Murcia, Spain.
--G3D Digital Game Design and Development International Conference, University of Beira Interior, 2013, Seriuous Games: Application of Virtual Reality and Games in Scientific Research. Covilhã, Portugal.
--University of Murcia, School of Fine Arts, October, 2011, invited talk: Procesos de Creación en el Arte Interactivo.
--Art Center Puertas de Castilla, October, 2011, seminar series: "La Imagen Pensativa, Murcia, Spain.
--PT INOVAÇAO (PT COMUNICAÇAO), January, 2010, workshop presenter: “Projectos Design Multimédia desenvolvidos na Universidade da Beira Interior”, Aveiro, Portugal.
--University of Murcia, School of Fine Arts, October, 2009, invited talk: “Realidad Virtual e Instalaciones Interactivas”, Murcia, Spain.
--Art Center Puertas de Castilla, October, 2009, seminar series: "Experimentación Artística de Videoarte", Murcia, Spain.
--University of Aveiro, CIANTEC, October, 2009, panelist: "Arte, Ciencia e Tecnologia", Aveiro, Portugal.
--Museum Calouste Gulbenkian, I International Conference Art Research, May, 2009, panelist: "Interdisciplinaridade em Arte", Lisbon, Portugal.
--University of Buffalo, Media Study, February, 2008, course seminar: "VR Art Project", Buffalo, NY, USA.
--Technarte, International Conference on Art and Technology, April, 2008, invited talk: "Virtual Reality at the Confluence of Art Science and Technology", Bilbao, Spain.
--University of Aveiro, Master in Visual and Technological Education, November, 2007, on-line seminar (second life platform): "Realidade Virtual", Portugal.
--Centro Congressi Torino Incontra, Virtuality International Conference, November, 2005, panelist: "Virtual Theater", Turin, Italy.
--IEEE VR04, March, 2004, workshop presenter: "VR for Public Consumption", Chicago, USA.
--CARVI, Virtual Reality Applications Conference, June, 2004, invited talk: "Virtual Reality Art Projects: A Research in Navigational systems, Stereoscopic Projection Systems and Interactive Narratives", Vitoria, Spain.
--Ecodrome Art Festival, June, 2004, invited talk: "The Art of Virtual Environments", Bragança, Portugal.
--University of Granada, ISAMA-BRIDGES, Interdisciplinary Conference on the Mathematical Connections in Arts, Music and Science, July 2003, invited talk: "Exploring Stereoscopic Virtual Spaces", Granada, Spain.
--University of the Basque Country, Art and Culture Meetings, July, 2002, course presenter: "Arte y Tecnología", Bilbao, Spain.
--University of Aalborg, WORLDART Intermedia Conference, 2000, master class imparted with Vibeke Sorensen: "'The Body in the Virtual World", Aalborg, Denmark.
--University of Southern California, Interactive Frictions Conference, 1999, panelist: Exhibition Artists Round Table, Los Angeles, USA.
--Electronic Visualization lab, University of Illinois at Chicago, January, 1998, EVL's weekly seminar for graduate students: "Artist’s Presentation", Chicago, USA.
--Museum of Art Reina Sofia, 1995, invited talk: "Virtual Reality & Virtual Actors, New Media for Artistic Expressions", Madrid, Spain.
--Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1994, invited talk: "'Virtual Reality: a New Way of Understanding Space", Pasadena, California, USA.
--Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), Nit's d'imatge, July, 1993, invited talk: "Virtualidad Real", Valencia, Spain.
--Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), Nit's d'imatge, July, 1993, panelist: "Mito y Praxis en los Entornos Virtuales", Valencia, Spain.
--University Complutense, August, 1993, course presenter: "La Realidad Virtual: Mundos Artificiales y su Impacto Social", Madrid, Spain.
--Centro Municipal de Imagen y Nuevas Tecnologías, I International Film Festival of New Directors, July, 1993, panelist: "Virtual Reality", Vitoria, Spain.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books

- Simó, A.: Realidad Virtual y Creación Artística, Ed. University of Beira Interior, Portugal, 2006.

Articles and Abstracts in Conference Proceedings, Journals and books

--Simó, A.: El Universo Cognitivo del Yo y sus Posibles Interpretaciones, Narrativa e Interfaces en la Instalación Reflecting JCC, in La Imagen Pensativa, Brumaria, (in press). Spain.
--Simó, A.: The Virtual Reality Art Installation Endocytosis: Evolving from a Flat Land into a Three-dimensional World, in Leonardo, MIT Press (in press) doi:10.1162/LEON_a_01265. USA.
--Simó, Á., Ferreira, S., Ortuño, P (2015) Implementación del Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos a través de Workshops Interdisciplinares. In Opción, Special number of the CUICIID, Congreso Universitario Internacional sobre la Comunicación en la Profesión y en la Universidad de Hoy: Contenidos, Investigación, Innovación y Docencia.
--Simó, Á., Hurtado, E., Ferreira, S. (2014) Workshops: Simbiosis entre la Formación Académica Universitaria y su Contexto Socio-Cultural y Laboral. in Nuevas Formulaciones de los Contenidos Docentes. McGraw-Hill.
--Simó, Á.(2014) Ampliación de la Narrativa del Falso Documental a través de Instalaciones Multimedia Interactivas. In Avanca Cinema International Conference, Portugal.
--Simó, Á.,Hüsch, S. (2013) The Tegel TXL-plus Nano Gate. In Tegel Propositions and Speculations, Prinz, Joseph-Lester and Westerman (ed.), The Green Box, Berlin.
--Simó, Á. (2013) De qué Está Hecha la Realidad? Simbiosis entre Arte, Ciencia y Tecnología. In Imagen Multimedia, Contextos Expandidos y Realidad Virtual, Arte y Políticas de Identidad, n.9, Spain.
--Simó, A.; Ferreira, S.; Hurtado, E.; Braz, R.: Body, Memory, Waste: Narratives for Tangible Interaction, ARTECH, 6th International Conference on Digital Arts, Portugal (accepted). 2012.
--Hüsch, S.; Simó, A.: The Park Hill Flat Sky Mobile, in Brutalist Speculations and Flights of Fancy, Site Gallery, 2011. UK.
--Simó, A.; Ferreira, S.: Cuerpo, Memoria, Desperdicio: la Narrativa de las Interfaces Tangibles en el Arte Interactivo, in FABRIKART, n. 9, 2011.
--Simó, A.: Art, Science and Technology as a Multicellular Organism, in Proceedings of I-arte, I International Art Research Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009 (in press).
--Simó, A. and Moira, C.: Teaching Multimedia Design and the Experience of Bologna
at the University of Beira Interior, in Proceedings of E-design, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009 (in press)
--Simó, A.:  Human-computer Interfaces and their Narrative: a Dynamic Interaction between Art, Science and Technology, in Proceedings of CIANTEC International Conference Art and New Technologies, Aveiro, Portugal, 2009.
--Simó, A.: Virtual Reality Installations as Living Narrative Landscapes: Nature as Inspiration for Interactive Art, in Proceedings of CIANTEC International Conference Art and New Technologies, Aveiro, Portugal, 2009.
--Simó, A.: Instalación Interactiva JCC, Brain Research II, in Proceedings of ARTECH, International Conference on Digital Art, Porto, Portugal, 2008.
--Simó, A.: JCC revisited, Instalación Interactiva, in El Discreto Encanto de la Tecnología, Artes en España, Claudia Giannetti (ed.), MEIAC and ZKM, 2008.
--Simó, A.: Reflecting JCC, Brain Research II, Banquete, Nodos y Redes, Laboral Centro de Arte, Spain, ZKM Kalsruhe, Germany, 2008.
--Simó, A.: Immersión e Interactividad (graphic work), in Ideas y Propuestas para el Arte en España, Ministerio de Cultura, Secretaría General técnica, Subdirección General de Publicaciones, Información y Documentación, Spain, 2008,
--Simó, A.: La Realidad Virtual y la Creación Artística, in Proceedings of CIANTEC, Internacional Conference Art and New Technologies, São Paulo, Brazil, 2007.
--Simó, A., and Karman, G.: Mimesis a Visual and Musical Instrument, in Proceedings of ICMC’05, International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2005
--Simó, A.: The Art and Science of Virtual Environments: Interactive Narratives, Navigational Systems, and Display Technologies, in Proceedings of the International Interdisciplinary Conference, Science and Art, Atenas, Grecia, 2005.
--Simó, A.: A Horizontal Stereoscopic Display System & Mimesis, the Function that Made the Organ, in Conference Abstracts and Applications ACM SIGGRAPH’03, San Diego, USA, 2003.
--Simó, A.: Virtual Environments as Living Organism, in Proceedings of Models to Know Reality, I Symposium of Art and Sciences, University of the Basque Country, Basque Country, Spain, 2003.
--Simó, A.: El Espacio Virtual Estereoscópico, in XIII Exposición Audiovisual, School of Fine Arts, University of the Basque Country, UPV-EHU, Spain, 2000.
--Simó, A.: Microworlds, Sirens and Argonauts, in Conference Abstracts and Applications ACM SIGGRAPH’99, Los Angeles, USA, 1999.
--Simó, A.; López, J.F.; Cao, Y.U.: Attractors: Navigational aids for Virtual Environments, in Conference Abstracts and Applications ACM SIGGRAPH’99, Los Angeles, USA, 1999.
--Simó, A.: Microworlds, Sirens and Argonauts: Navigation in Virtual Environments, in Conference Abstracts of INVENÇAO Thinking the Next Millennium, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1999.
--Simó, A.: El Arte de los Entornos Virtuales, in Telos, n.39, 1994.
--Simó, A.: Realidad Virtual: El Espacio de las Múltiples Perspectivas, in Cuatro Semanas y le Monde Diplomatique, núm. 10, 1993.


BROADCAST and PRESS RELEASE (selection)

 

--Televisión Española (Spaniard public TV), September, 2008, interview with excerpts of the interactive installation “JCC, Brain Research II” in the cultural program “Metrópolis”.

--Euskal Telebista (Basque public TV channel in Spain), 1994, interview with excerpts of the virtual environment “Plato’s Dream” in the cultural program “Iparra”.

--Canal +, 1993, interview in a special program on Virtual Reality.

--Televisión Española, 1993, computer animation “My Strange” screened on the cultural program “Metrópolis”

--"Artistas multimedia de ámbito nacional muestran sus obras en el Círculo de Bellas Artes", La Opinión de Tenerife, 3/12/02

--"Pionera en el arte virtual", El Correo, 11/5/00

--"La exposición de audiovisuales de Bellas Artes revela el uso de la tecnología como metáfora", El País, 10/18/00

--"Fagre nye verden", Nordjydske Stiftstidende, 10/6/00

--"La bilbaína Agueda Simó presenta en Los Angeles su última obra virtual", El Correo,  8/7/1999

--"Cantos de Sirena", EL País, Ciberia, 12/17/99

--"Agueda Simó, primera creadora española de realidad virtual", El Mundo, 8/20/93

--"Agueda Simó pionera de la realidad virtual", El Correo, 9/2/93

--"Agueda en el país de las maravillas", Gara, 6/30/93

--"Paseo por un paisaje irreal", El País, 4/28/93

--"Realidad Virtual una odisea por el ciberespacio", El Mundo, 7/31/93

--"Agueda Simó, única videoartista que crea realidad virtual en el Estado", El Mundo, 6/30/93

 

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