Félix Luque Sánchez

Félix Luque Sánchez (Oviedo, 1976°) works in the field of new media art. He has exhibited his works in art institutions such as Transmediale (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Linz), iMAL (Brussels), LABoral (Gijón), BÒLIT Centre d'Art Contemporani. (Girona). Le Cube (Paris). CCCB (Barcelona).

He has been nominated for major international new media awards like transmediale 2010 (Berlin-Germany). The Multimedia Award from the Liedts-Meesen Fondation  (Gent-Belgium). Ars Electronica 2010 (Linz-Austria), for which he received an Honorary Mention.

He has received a number of scholarships, including a Phonos grant for audiovisual and musical production for young artists (2002-2004), the Digital Art scholarship of the Belgian’s French Community of Belgium (2008-2009), the “oficina de proyectos” grant from LABoral (2008) and a production grant from VIDA 13.0 “Fundación Telefónica”  (2010).

From 2001 to 2007, he was a faculty member at IUA, the Audiovisual Institute at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona, carrying out didactic and technical functions at the university's Digital Arts Master and Postgraduate Programme of Musical Composition with New Technologies.

He is also engaged with sound design and the development of customized technologies, electronics and software, for Kris Verdonck’s Theater company: A Two Dogs Company.

He currently lives in Brussels.

www.othersounds.net


Agency projects

2010

A Science fiction story about botnets, spam and a rebellious computer.
Alphanumeric light displays, sound and video installation

2009

A Science Fiction Story about the discovery of an unidentified object.
Interactive installation, videos

Activities

2011

In this Dorkbot "geeky but arty", we will tackle, beyond the technical implementation, the question of articulating the artistic discourse around technology. We will present pieces where the "hardware" is visible, integral part of the artwork itself, but not its main theme. With projects by Jasper Rigole, Gert Aertsen, Félix Luque and Jérôme Decock from the LAb[au] collective. [live streaming]

2011

Félix comes back at iMAL for the production of a second dodecaheder that will tour french festivals, such as VIA and EXIT. The installation will be then shown at Le Cube (France) and at BÒLIT (Spain). 

2010

Are computers becoming intelligent entities, but mad ones all talking together and overflowing us with spams? What happens when these artificial brains controlled by unknown forces try to liberate and when their web dialogues become absurd, entropic and uncontrollable? Félix Luque tells us the story of a computer which, after an electronic alteration, decides to free the other machines.

2009

Chapter I invites us to discover a mysterious object, an unidentified artificial entity as real than fictional. Félix Luque's installation reformulates some modern philosophical questions about mankind and technology through the use of images associated with science fiction culture and myths around artificial intelligence.

News

In the context of Transmediale festival in Berlin, Wallonia Brussels International organises an exhibition showing pieces by 3 Brussels-based artists: Felix Luque, Julien Maire and LAb[au].

iMAL is very happy to be associated with this event as the co-producers of Julien's new work Composite as well as Felix's installations D.W.I. and Memory Lane.

Signals:...

The Jury of NTAA elected Nihil ex Nihilo, the work of Félix Luque as the 2012 award winner! The public price was awarded to two works: Static by Wim Janssen and Euthanasia Coaster by Julijonas Urbonas. More on www.ntaa.be

The installation Chapter 1 by Félix Luque is part of the exhibition "Paranoïa" which after Maison des Ars de Créteil and Maubeuge will be at Lille from April 13 to August 14.  ...

After his nominations for the Transmediale 2010 and the New Media Award of the Liedts-Meesen Foundation, Felix Luque received an Honorary Mention from Ars Electronica in the interactive art category. More on Chapter 1 website.

Felix Luque's installation produced during an artist residency at iMAL is one of the 9 nominees for the Transmediale 2010 in Berlin. More on Chapter 1 site.