Sunday 26 October, 11.00 - 20.00
Sounds to Be Protected: 20 Years of Freesound
Installation curated by the Freesound team in collaboration with Fito Conesa
Multidisciplinary artist, his work combines installation, video, and sound exploration.
Fito Conesa
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Fito Conesa has a degree in the Fine Arts from Barcelona University. He has given and designed workshops for the Education Department of Fundació “la Caixa” and formed part of the tutorial team of Sala d’Art Jove (2012). From 2014 to 2017 he directed and coordinated the Habitació 1418, the project of the CCCB and MACBA for creative young aged 14 to 18. He also worked as an art director on the “Green Santo Domingo” campaign for Santo Domingo City Hall (Dominican Republic).
His work has been shown at various museums and festivals such as the Oslo Screen Festival 2010, Barcelona Loop Fair 2009-2012, Barcelona International Poetry Festival, the Centro Cultural Español in theDominican Republic, Matadero Madrid and Caixafòrum (Lleida, Tarragona and Barcelona). He has contributed to publications such as Zeitgeist: Variations & Repetitions (Save as… publications, 2010), Unique Window Display (Loft Publications, 2009) and Suite for Ordinary Machinery (Save as… publications, 2008), with the latter being included in the holdings of the Tate Modern library (London), the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofía and the MACBA.
In 2022, he received the Alfonso X Prize (Region of Murcia) in the category of “new media art” and the Video Creation Award promoted by the Visual Arts Centers of Catalonia, Arts Santa Mònica, the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and the Loop Festival.
