Santiago Ortiz
Born in 1975 in Bogotá, Colombia, Santiago Ortiz studied mathematics, music, and literature at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. He has taught in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Porto in Portugal and in the Department of Arts and Mathematics at the Universidad de los Andes. He was a professor of art and technology at the European University of Madrid and teaches classes in digital design at Madrid’s European Institute of Design. He is also co-founder of Blank, a magazine of digital art and culture, and a regular collaborator with Medialab Madrid; and he recently founded the artist collective Bestiario. He lives and works in Lisbon and Barcelona.
Santiago Ortiz collaborates with artist, designer, and producer Luis Rico and biologist Lynn Margulis. Luis Rico is the co-director of Cibervisión 02, the International Festival of Art, Science and Technology, and MediaLab Madrid (Conde Duque Cultural Centre, Madrid). He studied graphic and industrial design at the Elisava School in Barcelona. In the 1980s, he took up painting; his work was included in exhibitions in Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Valencia, and Majorca. He is the co-author and co-director of the itinerant Banquete project (Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona; ZKM Karlsruhe; and Conde Duque Cultural Centre, Madrid, 2003), as well as the interactive teaching project Yumga ga, sponsored by UNESCO. He is also director of the Fundación Banquete and co-organizer of Cibervisión 99 at Madrid’s Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
Dr. Lynn Margulis is a professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Her contributions to our understanding of cellular processes include her theory on the origin of eukaryotic organelles.