Andrea Muniáin’s work investigates the photogrammetric infrastructure and the relations among the actors involved in it. She explores photogrammetry as a set of technological practices that go beyond simple representation. Photogrammetry can generate digital models capable of modifying the physical terrain of fields as diverse as forestry, modern medicine or heritage preservation.
As part of this Screen Walk, we collectively performed one of her latest pieces, Teletransporte post giro (Post-spin teleport), which builds on the key gesture of ‘turning’ to 3D scan objects.
Let's spin!
Andrea Muniáin is trained as an architect and researcher. Her practice focuses on the current relationships between digitality, corporeality and physicality. Currently, Andrea's work explores, beyond the digital representation of bodies, the political component of these same representations. Her research materializes in different practicable scenographies, through which she creates scenic narratives that intertwine the spaces of the physical and the virtual. Her installations reveal the implications of the applications of new digital technologies on subjectivities, bodies, spaces and identities.
Her work is linked to various national and international cultural institutions and universities. Her work has been exhibited at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; The Clemente Center, New York; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Centro Cultural Matadero, Madrid; among others. And her work as a researcher has been part of the pedagogical process of universities such as UTS Sydney, IE University, ELISAVA, IED Madrid, or the School of Architecture of Alicante. She has recently benefited from a research grant from Fundación la Caixa, through which she addresses, from a local level, the biopolitical implications of three-dimensional scanning in human and non-human agents.
Screen Walks is a new series of live-streamed artist/researcher-led explorations of online spaces and artistic strategies designed to illuminate a thriving – often overlooked – digital cultural scene. A new online collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery, UK and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
