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Magdalena Molinari (Argentina) is an architect, visual artist and Master in electronic arts. Combining electronics, programming, light, color, video, and digital environments, her works explore the relationship between control systems, spatial devices and materials to create electronic light installations generating experiences of pure sensation and reflecting on the connection between art and science through the physics of light. In 2010 she received her degree as an Architect at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the UBA. From 2010, she has studied electronics and code in independent institutions and as a self-taught. In 2020, she finished a master’s degree in Electronic Arts at the University of Tres de Febrero, of which she is currently a teacher. She has exhibited her work at many museums and cultural centers in Argentina, Chile & Canada, 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 she 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.
From 2019 to 2024 she was part of the Amplify D.A.I. platform for digital female and non binary artists. Since 2020, Molinari has been working on a virtual reality and performance project called ‘Sensitive Superpositions’ with the sound artist Erin Gee. In 2022, won the first prize at MediaLab CCEBA for her LandArt light installation titled ‘FOTOESFERAS’. From 2023 she is part of the Presente Continuo program in science, art, and technology led by Fundación Williams and Bunge & Born. In 2024 she did her first solo show “An instant of light” at Acefala Gallery and she did the light design for the experimental Opera “La virgen de los Generados”. On 2025 she participated with a site specific light installation in the ArtLum light art festival in Santiago de Chile, Chile. She is a founding member of Piso29, a space for artists and designers obsessed with technology.