Magdalena Molinari (Argentina) is an architect, visual artist and master in electronic arts.
Combining electronics, programming, light, color and video, her works explore the relationship between control systems, spatial devices and materials to create walkable light installations generating experiences of pure sensation, omitting the identification or association with the known.
In 2010 she received her degree as an Architect at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the UBA. From 2010, he has studied electronics and programming in independe
nt institutions and as a self-taught. In 2016, she began a master’s degree in Electronic Arts at the University of Tres de Febrero, of which she is currently a teacher. In 2017 she won a scholarship to carry out a residency at Sporobole, an art center in Quebec where she developed a digital video to light translation system.
She has exhibited her work at MACBA (BsAs 2016), Centro Cultural Recoleta (BsAs 2016), Muntref (BsAs 2017), Casa Nacional del Bicentenario (BsAs 2017) Laboratorio Festival (BsAs 2017), Sporobole (Quebec 2018), Centro Cultural Rojas (BsAs 2018 and 2019), Centro Cultural San Martin (BsAs 2018), Universidad Torcuato Ditella (BsAs 2017 and 2018), Centro cultural Kirchner (BsAs 2019), among others. She has participated in festivals such as FASE (BsAs 2016), SONAR (BsAs 2017), MUTEK.AR (BsAs 2018 and 2019), Mutek Montreal (2021). She has given talks at the University of Palermo, the University of Fine Arts in Rosario and the University of Tres de Febrero. She has directed workshops in which the passage from digital image to light is investigated and is a professor in the Master in Electronic Arts at Untref, in the Master in interactive design at Fadu and in the Bachelor in Design at Ditella.
Molinari has been a member of the Amplify D.A.I. platform for female and non-binary digital artists since 2019, and she is currently part of the first cohort of the Presente Continuo program of science, art and technology lead by Fundacion Williams and Bunge &Born.
Between 2020 and 2023, she developed a virtual reality project called "Sensitive Superpositions" with Canadian artist Erin Gee, with the support of Amplify D.A.I. and the Canada Council. They are currently developing a multimedia performance based on this project. In 2022, Molinari won first prize at the MediaLab CCEBA for electronic art projects for her LandArt installation called "FOTOESFERAS", which was on display in Buenos Aires y Rosario through 2022 and 2023. Since 2023, she has been part of Presente Continuo, a program in science, art, and technology led by Fundación Williams and Bunge & Born. She is a founding member of Piso29, a space for artists and designers obsessed with technology.