INTERDISCIPLINARY RETREAT

AUG. 23rd - SePt. 2ND 2018

Artivist and curator Macu Morán Marcos has devoted her entire life to research into the fields of art, sciences and spirituality, and to create and promote sustainable models for the cultural industries in the digital era, towards an appropriate thrive of humanity based upon its cultural production.

Daughter of a histologist and a watchmaker, and raised by an amateur astronomer and a film composer, life, as common denominator between time and nature, has been the core of her research on reality.

Working over a decade as Director of New Markets for artnet Worldwide Corporation in New York, her broad interest in Technology-based art, brought her to establish the pioneering VideoArtWorld organization, which created, set and promoted the international standards, commonly accepted worldwide today, for the appropriate valuing, disseminating, collecting and preserving of intangible artistic creations.

Moving into the needs of innovative art creators in all mediums, she subsequently developed the network Imagery Dimension, as an alternative reality for the industry of thought, in order to promote creative endeavors or Imagery Affairs, that can explore innovative technologies and ideas in collaboration with institutions and professionals under equitable terms, following ethical policies that seek transparency, fair conduct and appropriate procedures while encouraging creators to exercise their rights on authorship using licenses that best suit each specific creation, medium and scope.

Her experience as curator started organizing the DiVA Digital Video Art Fairs of New York and Paris, followed by several editions of Barcelona Art Contemporary Festival (BAC!) and VIVA Collections on tour.

She has delivered lectures and presented exhibition programs from a large number of contemporary artists in diverse international venues, such as MANIFESTA European Roaming Biennial, Art|Basel Fair, Centre Pompidou, Fundació Joan Miró, MoCA Seoul, Hara Tokyo, CCCB Barcelona, Wilfredo Lam Havana, Casa Asia, ICP New York, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Cervantes Institute New York, Arts Santa Mónica Barcelona, Fundación Suñol, Fundación Alianza Hispánica, University of Cordoba, WHITE BOX New York, KINETICA London, Technarte Bilbao and at thefestivals Rencontres Internationales, EXiS Seoul, CologneOFF, Mouvart Marseille, BANG Barcelona, Experimenta Sao Paulo, MadAttack Madrid, Big Screen project New York, CIRCO Havana, Musiclip Barcelona, WeArt Barcelona, International Film Festival of Soria, VideoAkt Audiovisual Biennial of Barcelona, etc

In the year 2000, when researching for her thesis "Philosophic, economic and commercial challenges for the art market in the XXI Century", she found on a New York street pavement the publication that would consistently direct her professional career within the art world. It included the scripts of some of the artists, scientists, spiritual leaders and economists that had gathered in Amsterdam a decade earlier to explore the emerging paradigm of a holistic world view and the implications for a global economy.

The five day conference, directed by Louwrien Wijers Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy included Joseph Beuys, Robert Filliou, Dalai Lama, David Bohm, Robert Rauschenberg, David Bohm, Francisco Varela, Stanislav Menshikov, Ilya Prigogine, John Cage, Huston Smith, Francisco Varela, Mother Tessa Bielecki, Rupert Sheldrake, Sogyal Rinpoche, Lawrence Weiner, Marina Abramovic, Fritjof Capra, Raimon Panikkar and others.

The second of the conversations organized by the conductor of the Imagery Residency Macu Moran, for Art Basel included Don Foresta, founder of the research artist and coordinator of MARCEL (Multimedia Art Research Centres and Electronic Laboratories) and Michael Doser, Deputy Director, Physics Department at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), becoming a precursor of the ARTS AT CERN residency that was created soon after, with a tremendous effect in the art industry and contemporary research.

Logo based on Warframe, a Digital Extremes action game. Warframe is the name of the biomechanical suits remotely controlled by the Tecnos, a race of an ancient and mystical civilization of lost warriors from the Orokin era on Earth. Preserved in cryo-sleep for centuries, have awoken to find themselves at war combating the corrupt factions and savage mutations that threaten the solar system, also referred to as the Origin system. Their memories have faded over time, but their mastery of guns, blades has not. To channel their unique expandable abilities, unpredictable powers given by the Void, Tecno use Warframes, exo-suits connected to their consciousness, each of them with special abilities that determine the role and fighting style that the Tecno is most effective at. Regardless of their future, the Tenno stand united against a common foe, loyal only to each other