Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
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"Random Sky," 2006
Collaboration with Mark Hereld and Rick Gribenas.
7680 x 1024 resolution continuous real-time digital output; single channel, 10-projection screens; weather transmitter with temperature, barometric, wind speed and direction instrumentation; and 7.1 surround sound.
Installation view: Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
Courtesy the artist and Meulensteen, New York.
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1961, and was raised in Bogotá, Colombia, and Chicago, Illinois. He earned a BA in art and art history, and a BA in Latin American and Spanish literature, from Williams College (1983), and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1989). Manglano-Ovalle’s technologically sophisticated sculptures and video installations use natural forms such as clouds, icebergs, and DNA as metaphors for understanding social issues such as immigration, gun violence, and human cloning.
Conversations the Art Brings to the Classroom
- "If art is a platform from which to speak but not tell you something, that is good"
- "And if that is a way in which I give you a platform in which to think and debate it, that's even better"
- "All my work has an underlying politics to it but I don't want to reveal my position"
- "Weather patterns inside and outside of architecture"
- "space that is contained within, and the space that surrounds"
How the Artist Exhibits use of MI
Manglano-Ovalle uses astrophysics, meteorology, weather patterns, and biological code strictly as metaphor. He utilizes the scientific method as a means to harness and visualize data. However although his process is that of a naturalist, Manglano-Ovalle is more concerned with social issues. His work is more based on issues of a society such as immigration. There's a "joke" or "interplay" between Manglano-Ovalle's scientific approach and the political interests he hopes his work starts a conversation around.
Exposing students to Manglano-Ovalle's work will provide them with evidence that an artist utilize technological data gathering procedures to produce work that speaks to new societal issues. Manglano-Ovalle's work almost begs an interdisciplinary project of artists working in tandem with meteorological scientists.
Manglano-Ovalle exhibits the following Naturalist MI behaviors throughout his process:
Exposing students to Manglano-Ovalle's work will provide them with evidence that an artist utilize technological data gathering procedures to produce work that speaks to new societal issues. Manglano-Ovalle's work almost begs an interdisciplinary project of artists working in tandem with meteorological scientists.
Manglano-Ovalle exhibits the following Naturalist MI behaviors throughout his process:
- collaborates with astrophysicists, meteorologists, and medical ethicists
- harnesses extraterrestrial radio signals, weather patterns, and biological code
- transforms pure data into digital video projections and sculptures realized through computer rendering
- strategy of representing nature through information leads to an investigation