Laura Colmenares Guerra is a Colombian/Spanish visual artist based in Brussels. In 2002 she obtained a Masters degree in Audiovisual Media at Los Andes University in Bogota and in 2008 a Postgraduate Master in Transmedia Studies at Sint-Lukas, Brussels.
Moving digital image has been the central focus of her artistic work. Her practice is based in the composition of cinematographic images intervened with 3D elements and photography. This visual research materializes in the form of immersive and most of the time interactive audio-visual installations that delve into the matter of body perception, activating the relationship of the spectators with their own body and its spatial perception. She is interested in the creation of environments that relate to the politics of landscape and the human intervention and constructions of the concepts of nature and natural.
In parallel Laura has worked as a video performer, starting as a VJ in the early Techno scene of Bogota. This practice evolved into concrete experimental live audiovisual performances with musicians on stage, but as well into the creation of independent music-video pieces, that imply collaborations with musicians and composers but as well with various music labels.
Her work has recently been showcased at The Alexander Kasser Theatre, Peak Performances at Montclair State University (NJ), at Kings Place (London,UK), The Glasgow school of arts (Glasgow-UK), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, Canada, during the International Biennale of New Media Art, at festival Elektra-Mutek, EM15, at the Imperial Theatre of Montreal, Canada, at the Cube - Centre for Digital Creation (Paris, F), the International Computer Music Conference (Huddersfield, UK), Nadine, iMal at the Erasmus Museum and Sint-Lukasgalerie in Brussels (BE), The Festival Crea Numerica in the Games of La Francophonie (Beirut, Lebanon), the Arts Centre in Enghien-les-Bains (F), at City Sonic (Mons, B), during the Ars Musica Festival 2013 at the Theatre Brigittines (Brussels, B) and at the Museum of Bozar (Brussels, B), in between others.
Over the past decade, Laura has developed personal and collaborative projects in the field of media arts and has worked on various other video projects, among others: In Flanders Fields Museum in Iper, the video wall for the 20th anniversary of the Brussels Parliament, an installation device of 12 screens in 360 degrees for the Museum of the Port of Antwerp, the video wall for the city of St.Truiden and the video documentation for Numediart research Institute in Mons and the Mondaneum.
Her audio-visual practice fluctuates between commercial work and the process of artistic creation. The development of heterogeneous video projects allowed her to find audiovisual languages that fit each project. The commercial practice provided her technical knowledge and a broad view of the media and its various applications, this reflects in the realization of her personal projects and collaborations.
Her work has recently been showcased at The Alexander Kasser Theatre, Peak Performances at Montclair State University (NJ), at Kings Place (London,UK), The Glasgow school of arts (Glasgow-UK), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, Canada, during the International Biennale of New Media Art, at festival Elektra-Mutek, EM15, at the Imperial Theatre of Montreal, Canada, at the Cube - Centre for Digital Creation (Paris, F), the International Computer Music Conference (Huddersfield, UK), Nadine, iMal at the Erasmus Museum and Sint-Lukasgalerie in Brussels (BE), The Festival Crea Numerica in the Games of La Francophonie (Beirut, Lebanon), the Arts Centre in Enghien-les-Bains (F), at City Sonic (Mons, B), during the Ars Musica Festival 2013 at the Theatre Brigittines (Brussels, B) and at the Museum of Bozar (Brussels, B), in between others.
If you are interested by my commercial work please visit: www.ulara.org
Studies
2014 -2015 > 3D/VFX/Compositing
CGItrainer Belgium – Jean Yves Arboit
2009 - 2010 > Interactive Media,
Academie Beeldende Kunsten Anderlecht, Brussels – Belgium
2006 - 2008 > TRANSMEDIA, Postgraduate Program in Arts + Media + Design.
Hogeschool Sint-Lukas, Brussels – Belgium
1997 - 2002 > Master in Arts. Emphasis: Audiovisual Media & Media Art.
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá – Colombia
Selected Exhibitions / Concerts / Screenings
2017
• Lagunas - Interactive installation - iMal -Brussels (Belgium)
• The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (Iniciative of Kika Nicolela) - The Local - New York (USA)
2016
• See You Later - Audiovisual concert – PEAK Performances – Alexander Kasser Theater - Montclair, New Jersey (USA)
• eVanescens - Audiovisual concert - Botanique – La Semaine du Son Brussels (Belgium)
• The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (Iniciative of Kika Nicolela) – Top Schillerpalais - Berlin (Germany)
2015
• Variations of Disarray - Monumental projection/Screening - CityLight - Transnumériques, Mons (Belgium)
• GIFT - Audiovisual concert - Chapelle de Boondael - Brussels (Belgium)
• eVanescens - Audiovisual concert – Musicacoustica - Beijing (China)
• eVanescens - Audiovisual concert - YU GONG YI SHAN - Beijing (China)
• Cryptic – Oliver Coates - Audiovisual concert – Kings Place - London (UK)
• Cryptic – Oliver Coates - Audiovisual concert – The Glasgow school of Arts - Glasgow (UK)
2014
• UNRAVEL - Screening - Festival Video Movimiento - Universidad Javeriana - Bogota (Colombia)
• Lungs [the breather] - Interactive installation - La Balsamine - Brussels (Belgium)
• Beyond the Divide - Audiovisual concert – World Music Days - Wroclaw (Poland)
• Beyond the Divide - Audiovisual concert – Audio Art Festival - Wroclaw (Poland)
• eVanescens - Audiovisual concert - Festival Elektra/Mutek - Montreal (Canada)
• Lungs [the breather] - Interactive Installation - International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN) - Montreal (Canada)
• eVanescens - Audiovisual concert - NIME 2014 - London (England)
• Beyond the Divide/Oracular/Unravel - Screening - Deweekvandeklank - Brussels (Belgium)
• Beyond the Divide - Audiovisual concert - Flagey - Deweekvandeklank -Brussels (Belgium)
2013
• Lungs [the breather] - Interactive installation - BOZAR - Brussels (Belgium)
• eVanescens - Audio-visual concert – International Contemporary Music Festival Ars Musica 2013 - Brigittines. Brussels (Belgium)
• Persona - Theater - LaborGras - Berlin (Germany)
2012
• eVanescens - Audio-visual concert - LE CUBE - Centre for Digital Creation. Issy-les-Moulineaux (France)
• Oracular - Video - Gallery VanderA - Brussels (Belgium)
• Beyond the Divide - Audio-visual concert - Space Senghor - Brussels (Belgium)
• eVanescens - Audio-visual concert - Musiques Nouvelles - Mons (Belgium)
2011
• (IN)Pulses - Audio-visual concert - Gare Numérique de Jeumont (France)
• Beyond the Divide - Audio-visual concert – ICMC - University of Huddersfield (UK)
2010
• Beyond the Divide - Audio-visual installation - Vlaamse Scriptieprijs - The Royal Academy of Science and Arts of Belgium - Brussels
• Lungs [the breather] - Interactive installation – CitySonics - Mons (Belgium)
• De Vogel en het net - Audio-visual installation - Erasmus Museum - Brussels (Belgium)
• Lungs [the breather] - Interactive installation - Sint-Lukasgalerie - Brussels (Belgium)
• Unstable Territories - Interactive installation - iMal - Brussels (Belgium)
2009
• Lungs [the breather] - Interactive installation - Beirut (Lebanon)
• Percept - Performance - Centre des Arts Enghien-Les-Bains / Bains Numériques #4. Enghien-Les-Bains (France)
2008
• Lungs [the breather] - Interactive installation - PING! Festival - Mallorca (Spain)
• Lungs [the breather] - Interactive installation - NADINE - Brussels (Belgium)
2007
• Golden Delicious - Video - Urban Trajectories - Brussels - Rotterdam - Mexico
2006
• BogotaLab - Video installation/performance - Plan06 - Köln (Germany)
2005
• HuevoProoo1 - Video - Ingenio 400 - Madrid (Spain)
• Orange Juice - Video – Recyclart - Brussels (Belgium)
2003
• Self-Portrait - Interactive installation - Contradance - Brussels (Belgium)
2002
• Ajna’s Journeys - Interactive Video Installation - Los Andes University -Bogotá (Colombia)
• Ajna’s Journeys - Interactive Video Installation - Alliance Français -Bogotá (Colombia)
Commission works
• 2011 > Twelve-screen device, at 360 degrees for the Museum of the sea port of Antwerp. Antwerp - Belgium
• 2011 > Video Wall of 18 screens for the City of St.Truiden. St.Truiden - Belgium
• 2009 > Video wall for the Brussels Parliament for its 20th anniversary
• 2007 > 1st world war landscapes – In Flanders Fields Museum Ieper - Belgium