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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.
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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.
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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).