Through my artistic practice I explore scientific methodologies, with the aim of producing new meanings. I investigate different ways of representing reality in order to reflect and affect the way we perceive.
I work from a transdisciplinary approach where each discipline provides one more level of reality. In this sense, I want to go beyond the new trend in Art and Science, summoning the maximum number of disciplines involved in a phenomenon.
I work with recycled material, painting, video-projection, weeds and interactive sensors. I am interested in the potential of technology to produce new ways of representing, as well as in the possibility to find a dialogue between the natural systems and our use of technology with its possibilities and purposes.
At the core of my work is always the inherent motive of art to refer to and portray reality with the aim of understanding it. In my projects I try to collaborate with different experts and communities because I am interested in the dialogue that germinates in these meetings.
Graduated with distinction in the Master Art and Science, at Central Saint Martins in UAL (University of Arts London). My final project The Wasteland was nominated to the MullenLowe NOVA Awards and shortlisted to This Earth MAISON/0 Award.
Currently I combine my artistic practice with the studies of Landscape Architecture. Under the framework of landscaping I have found a way to bring together my interests in the field of public space, ecology and art.
Contact
E-mail: noa.rodriguez.mendez@gmail.com
CV
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
2022- Currently studying degree in Landscape Architecture in Universidade de Santiago de Compostela/Universidade da Coruña.
2019-2021 Graduated with distinction MA Art and Science, Central Saint Martins, UAL (University of Arts of London)
Being awarded with two-year scholarship by Deputación da Coruña, Spanish Government public institution.
2014/2018 Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo, at the faculty of Pontevedra.
Participating in an Erasmus + scholarship in the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design of the George Enescu University, in Iasi, Romania, during 2016-2017 and a holography practice program, also in the Erasmus + program, from September to December 2018, in the Centro-Fábrica Ciencia Viva de Aveiro.
PRIZES AND EXHIBITIONS
Solo exhibition and artist in residency, REGA´22 with Virtual Roots Collective, from September to December 2022,Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Colective exhibition, Xuventude Crea, Iglesia USC, 5th-26th November 2021, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Collective exhibition, Virtual Ground , Asylum Chapel, 6th - 7th July 2021, Caroline Gardens, Asylum Road, SE152SQ, London, UK
Collective exhibition, Virtual Ground #2, Safehouses, 9th - 12th July 2021, 137 – 139 Copeland Road SE15 3SN, London, UK
Virtual exhibition, "See you tomorrow", 21st Jan- 21st Feb 2021, https://artsciencecsm.com/work/open-studio-see-you-tomorrow/
Collective exhibition, I promise you.., 5th - 8th March 2020, Apiary Studios, Hackney, London, UK
SALE, Performance “I accept all”, Tate Exchange, 19th January 2020, Blavatnik Building Tate, London, UK
Collective exhibition, Big Space Exhibition, 21st-25th November 2019, Central Saint Martins, King Cross, UAL, London, UK
First Prize modality of poetry of “Premios de poesía, relato curto e tradución literaria 2018”, of Vigo´s University, Spain
Participation with the video-installation Constructive Interference-Destructive Interference at the SinSal festival, 26th-29th July 2018, Illa de San Simón, Vigo, Spain .
Collective exhibition, Do final e do comezo 2018, 6th- 30th Sep- tember 2018, Pazo da Cultura, Pontevedra, Spain
Collective exhibition Poezie Vizuala, 1st-30th May 2017, Gallery of art, Ateneul,
Iasi, Romania
Collective exhibition Visitin Art History, Spiritul Tempului, 29th May- 29th June, 2017, Gallery of modern and contemporary art, Sala Pasilor Pierduti. Universtatea Technica Gheorghe Asachi, Palatul universitatii din Iasi, Romania
CREATIVE FACILITATION EXPERIENCE
Workshop facilitator, Storytelling Science Project, "Chit, chat and catch"
https://animateprojects.org/portfolio/storytelling-science/
Assistant Creative Mindsets workshop December 2019, University of Arts of London.
In charge of the visual arts workshop and the audiovisual project, within the Climantica project, in the International Campus CLMTK of Aveiro in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and in the First Ibero-American Climate Seminar of Costa Rica, in April 2019.
http://www.climantica.org
LANGUAGES
Spanish (native level)
Portuguese/Galician (native level)
English (C1/ Advanced)
Romanian (A2/elemental level)
