User:Miguel Felipe Valenzuela/sandbox

Miguel Felipe Valenzuela is a media artist from Santiago, Chile who lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Commonly working under the moniker FMGrande his practice spans various disciplines, including media art, photography, drawing, digital and analogue video and experimental sculpture. His work attempts to redefine technological trajectories of the outmoded and the obsolete into useless, non-functioning, yet refined and aesthetically appealing installations and works of art. His dysfunctional electronica series utilizes de-constructed electronic equipment such as televisions, removed CRT tubes, cameras and other obsolete items to create sculptural works that question our understanding of materiality and its inextricable relationship with the human condition, social history and functionalism. He has recently exhibited at the Sheffer Gallery, Damien Minton Gallery and 107 Projects in Redfern individually and as part of the SYNC! collective. His video art work has been exhibited at Mekanarky Studios, Diffuse UTS, ACMI Federation Square in Melbourne, Gallery X Vivid Sydney, and Pehrspace Los Angeles. His work Rhizome Prism, a collaborative interactive structure was part of the Vivid Lights festival in Sydney in 2015, an offshoot of the work was installed at SFU in Vanouver, Canada in the same year. He has recently completed a PhD in Art and Design at the University of New South Wales Art and Design, presenting a series of three works and a thesis titled Artistic Uses of Cathode Ray Technology in the Digital Age. His practice led research and experimental constructs formed part of a broader articulation and will help foster a deeper understanding of a lineage of media art practice that is constantly being redefined, especially as obsolete technology becomes a normative fixture in media art practice.