Nationality: Spanish
Currently the programmer for the OVNI video platform, Xavi Hurtado (born in Barcelona in 1961) is an audiovisual filmmaker who trained in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona (1986). His critical work, closely related to the challenges of global culture, addresses urban encounters through difference and exclusion, exploring the interstices where personal experience unfolds within the daily rhythm of stimuli that invite passive reception and consumption.
Xavi Hurtado began working with analogue video in the late 1980s, and later shifted to digital media. His work includes installations and live action, as well as single channel video as a narrative form. His research into changes in the nature of the visual and its relationships to contemporary technological devices takes the form of essay-like poetic exploration or meta-referential audiovisual exploration.
In 1996, he earned a Master of Art in Media Program from New York University. Subsequently, he taught at universities such as the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (from 1997 to 2000), the Master in Electronic Arts at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, and the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona until 2004.
In 2000, he started to explore the experience of sleep in so-called indigenous cultures as a space of transculturation and interaction with other adjacent visualities, mainly in Colombia. With this, he embarked on a path of seeking intersections between the nature of images in animist systems of thought and experimental video.
Xavi Hurtado has exhibited his work in various international shows, has served as a jury member and curator for festivals, and has worked on research projects related to indigenous communities in Colombia.
1 MOVIE IN DISTRIBUTION
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KIRLIAN CORP.
1995 / Betacam SP / color / sound / single screen / 10' 30 / 35 € distribution: Digital file on server |