{"id":642,"date":"2023-01-05T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topo.art\/ilinu-ilidi\/?p=642"},"modified":"2023-02-27T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T21:50:00","slug":"santiago-tavera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topo.art\/ilinu-ilidi\/en\/santiago-tavera\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago Tavera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"alignwide wp-block-heading\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">Bio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Santiago Tavera is a Colombian-Canadian artist based in Montr\u00e9al. Tavera\u2019s practice revolves around constructing immersive and interactive projects that expand the body through digital media, to evoke virtual simulations of migrant and queer narratives of dislocation. In Tavera\u2019s work, mixed media compositions of videos, 3D graphic animations, text, sound and reflective surfaces create blurred experiences of physical and virtual spatial embodiments. Tavera\u2019s projects have recently been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec, and the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, and presented in Canada at Optica, MAI-Montr\u00e9al, arts interculturels, Articule, SUR Gallery, TOPO, Montr\u00e9al\u2019s 3rd International Digital Art Biennial, Interaccess, Forest City Gallery, as well as Internationally at the International Art Fair of Bogota-ARTBO, the Images Festival of Manizales, the International Symposium on Electronic Art-ISEA (Colombia), La Galeria de Arte e Pesquisa\u2013UFES (Brazil), Solange Guez + Arte Contemporaneo (Argentina), Laborat\u00f3rio de Arte Alameda (M\u00e9xico), and Centro Cultural Rogelio Salmona (Colombia), Tavera holds a Master of Fine Arts in Intermedia from Concordia University, and a Bachelor of Arts with an Honor Specialization in Visual Arts and a Major in Psychology from Western University. Tavera is currently a visiting scholar at the Elastic Spaces Media lab at Concordia University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.santiagotavera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">santiagotavera.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bio Santiago Tavera is a Colombian-Canadian artist based in Montr\u00e9al. Tavera\u2019s practice revolves around constructing immersive and interactive projects that expand the body through digital media, to evoke virtual simulations of migrant and queer narratives of dislocation. In Tavera\u2019s work, mixed media compositions of videos, 3D graphic animations, text, sound and reflective surfaces create blurred&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/topo.art\/ilinu-ilidi\/en\/santiago-tavera\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Santiago Tavera<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-person-en","tag-formateur-en","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topo.art\/ilinu-ilidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topo.art\/ilinu-ilidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topo.art\/ilinu-ilidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topo.art\/ilinu-ilidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topo.art\/ilinu-ilidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/topo.art\/ilinu-ilidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/topo.art\/ilinu-ilidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topo.art\/ilinu-ilidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topo.art\/ilinu-ilidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topo.art\/ilinu-ilidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}