Juan Carlos Orozco Velásquez
Audiovisual performer, teacher and experimental researcher, Juan Carlos Orozco Velásquez is a Colombian artist who moves between philosophy, sciences and art in order to develop intermedia projects. His multiple interests go from history of vision and optics, metaphysics, video technologies, philosophy, theater, dance, live video, expanded cinema, magic, parties, politics, between others. He is the co-founder of the experimental audiovisual research group TELEFANTE making audiovisual performances in festivals and art centers in Germany, Holland, France and Sweeden. Member and co-founder of the Fluxus ensemble IIS (Institute for Intermedia Studies) in Berlin. Part of the organization of the Bogotrax Festival in Bogotá-Colombia, a completely independent festival of electronic culture and politics running every year since quite 10 years.
He worked in the research team of Professor Sigfried Zielinski in the areas of Variantology and Archaeology of Media in the Sciences and Art department of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. He collaborated with diverse artists in the areas of digital scenography for theater, dance, experimental music and video processing in the last ten years. Living between Bogotá and Berlin, Orozco is a graduate Filmmaker with master studies in Media Arts in Barcelona and Cologne.
