Zug nach Wittenau / Wittenau Print

Visual artist, designer and researcher Adriana Torres Topaga born in Bogotá, Colombia.She’s a visual artist and designer based on Linz, Austria. Master degree as Industrial Designer from Javeriana University of Bogotá, Master in Digitals Arts at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and Master at space & design strategies at the University of Art and Design Linz. She is currently PhD candidte at this universitiy continuing her research around the skin, human body and their relationship to space on the fi elds of social construction. and skin architecture. During her master study space&design strategies was member of the “public space 2.0” research project group of the same Faculty, where she took part on the refl ection of social practices-oriented design in public space and focused mainly in the development of a technological wearable garment. (http://www.strategies-research.ufg.ac.at/public_space) Some of her works show her fascination around the human body and the skin as a political space for questioning, ideals of gender, beauty, consum, the privat and public, the relationship between new and low technologies around the human body. Other topics or her interest are art and collective and interdisciplinary creation, design and methodology, materials research, consume culture, up-cycling, and social impact of design and arts. She also collaborates actively as graphic designer and as chairwoman of the board of directors of the migrant association “maiz” in Linz, Austria. Combininig some of her interests, Adriana is cofounder of the platform ”lab on stage” with the aim of exploring the relationship between body, space, movement, gestures, materials, techniques, as well the performance as a medium for interdisciplinary research and study of the creative process. http://puntos.at/LAB_SITE/lab_on_stage.html The focus of her artistic inquiry relies on both: the process than in what the outcome. Adriana’s artistic practice develops independent from standards in size and techniques, She reveals this diversity by doing interactive sculptures and spaces, performance, clothing, graphic design, Photography, video and sound and in the last 2 years increasingly performance. She had showed her work among other exhibitions at: Afo Architecture Forum (Linz), CCCB Barcelona, Ars Electronica Center (Linz), Lentos (Linz).