Born in 1984, Benoit Espinola is a young French-Brazilian artist working in the medium of programming and robotics. He is currently studying hypermedia and mechatronics at the Aix-en-Provence School of Art and Interaction Design at CIID. His fields of interest are geolocation, geolocalisation, urban interactivity and social urbanism. His work consists of a mix between visual programming, prosthesis, and robotics.
>>>>>>> Education:
2009-2010
-> Studying Interaction design at CIID's Interaction Design Program at DKDS (Denmark), leading to a diploma in September 2010
-> Studying Art and Technology at the Aix-en-Provence School of Art (France), leading to the DNSEP (Master of Fine Arts) in June 2011
2006-2009 -> Studied Art at the Aix-en-Provence School of Art (France), DNAP (Degree in Fine Arts) in June 2009
2005-2006 -> Studied Science for Engineering at Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille III)
2004-2005 -> High School Diploma : General Scientific Baccalauréat (A level), specialisation in Mathematics, option in art at the Lycée François Mitterrand in Brasilia (Brazil) (art grade : 19/20, general grade : 12.42/20)
>>>>>>> Experience:
2008-2009 -> Participated to workshop with Transatlab, a research and development group between Aix-en-Provence (France), Nice (France) and Chicago (US).
2009 -> Participated to the Terraz (Belgium, Brazil, France and Portugal) project, hold a workshop for the Virtual Reality laboratory master and doctorate students on art an mobile technologies in the University of Brasilia (Brazil).
2008
-> Professor with France Cadet in a robotics workshop, in an association for kids and teenagers, introducing definitions and history of robots, building and programming Lego robots
-> From 16 June until 30 September, designer and webmaster in Synesthésie (www.synesthesie.com), an association located in Paris that produces and presents contemporary digital art. During the internship, constructed the official website for the French witter Amandine Cornette de Saint Cyr (www.amandinecornettedesaintcyr.fr), set up press releases, flyers and invitation layouts for the association's participation in the Biennale Art Grandeur Nature, presence of LAb[au] and Jérôme Joy
2004-2005 -> 4 months internship in journalism with focus on the production, implementation and editing of journalistic television reports, made in the Central Nacional de Televisão (CNT), a Brazilian television broadcaster, Brasilia (Brazil)
>>>>>>> Exhibitions:
2009
Biennial of the Young Creators of Europe and the Mediterranean, with exhibitions in Montpellier (April/May 2009), Skopje – Macedonia (September 2009) and Marseille (in March/April 2010)
Participated on the Terraz project holding a workshop about mobile technology in the University of Brasilia (UNB) for master students in Art and Technology in conjunction with an art residency
Participation in the LIFT conference in Marseille
2008
Collective exhibition in an open day at the Aix-en-Provence School of Art open day presented an interactive piece called Sans_Titre_1_0
Collective exhibition presenting in the city hall for the C'est Sud festival in Aix-en-Provence Dans les temps
Presentation of Walls, a piece built for the Second Year group project, Laboratory of Fictions at the Aix-en-Provence School of Art
2007
Collective exhibitions at the Aix-en-Provence school of art presenting works form the introductory courses and from the workshop taught by Lionel Scoccimaro
2005
Creation of a fresco for UNESCO's Education for All program, exhibition in Brasilia in the Brazilian Parliament and at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris
>>>>>>> IT:
Fully competent in Internet, Word, Excel and Power Point
Fully competent in C, C++, Java, Processing, Pure Data, Arduino, Pinguino, PHP, XML and HTML
Competent in MySQL, Phyton, JavaScript, CSS, SketchServer (iPhone development) Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Final Cut, Audacity and Pro Tools
>>>>>>> Languages:
Portuguese : native language
French : native language
Spanish : fluent (lived in Barcelona from 1992 until 1995)
English : fluent (scored 104 in the IBT TOEFL, on September 2008)
>>>>>>> Travels:
Brazil: 17 years
France : over 5 years
Spain 3 years
Denmark : over 6 moths
Netherlands: 13 weeks
Malta and Singapore: 3 weeks each country
Portugal and London: 2 weeks
Skopje (Macedonia), Prague, Switzerland and Brighton (UK): 1 week
Venice: 3 days
Ohrid (Macedonia), Malmö, Antwerp and Brussels
>>>>>>> Visited exhibitions:
The Microgalery in Copenhagen, The fashion Museum in Antwerp, Aix en Provence (various exhibitions), London (various museums), Biennial Art Grandeur Nature (Seine Saint Denis, France), Biennial of Lyon 2007, Biennial of Venice 2007, Todays Arts 2007 (Netherlands), Sonic Acts Festival 2008 (Netherlands), Montevideo (Amsterdam), Stedelijk Museu (Amsterdam), Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam), GEM (The Hague), Centraal Museum (Utrecht), Centro Cultural Itau (Sao Paulo), MASP (Sao Paulo), Pinacoteca (Sao Paulo), Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris...
København, Denmark
2009 Biennial of the Young Creators of Europe and the Mediterranean, with exhibitions in Montpellier (April/May 2009), Skopje – Macedonia (September 2009) and Marseille (in March/April 2010) Participated on the Terraz project Participation in the LIFT conference in Marseille