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Ramiro Augusto Cosentino

Artist and developer — art and technology, free media and radio, musical video games.

Barcelona rc at xicnet.com
Night media lab: people working at CRT monitors and laptops under a video projection.
Multitud Conectada — with Hackitectura.net, 2003. Self-built media centre.

Developer and artist with over twenty years at the crossing of technology, free media and media art. Lead developer of Burn Station, an art/technology project for free music distribution, exhibited in museums and international festivals — Transmediale Berlin, MUMOK Vienna, MACBA Barcelona, among others — and of numerous workshops and artistic residencies across Europe and Latin America centred on streaming, online radio and free media. I am currently developing Joymixa, a musical video game with a real-time audio and visual engine.

selected projects

2023 — 2026
Joymixa

Solo design and development of a gamepad-first musical video game, with a real-time audio engine and an audio-reactive visual background. joymixa.com

2010
Interactive carpet — Salón Pueyrredón, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Development and presentation of an interactive carpet for real-time video manipulation, for an own music project. Built on Pure Data and Arduino.

2003 — 2012
Burn Station

Self-developed art/technology project, exhibited internationally (see exhibitions and festivals below).

The Burn Station unit on a street, people gathered around its two screens.
Burn Station — street installation, free audio culture.
Six photographs of Burn Station installed in gallery spaces, with its poster.
Burn Station — gallery installations, 2006.

exhibitions & festivals

2011
Ciudad Emergente — Centro Cultural Recoleta — Buenos Aires, Argentina

Presentation of Burn Station and 'Alarduino and the magic carpet'.

2009
Cultura y Media Festival — Centro Cultural General San Martín — Buenos Aires, Argentina

Exhibition of the Burn Station project.

2009
WikiManía 2009 — Wikipedia, Centro Cultural General San Martín — Buenos Aires, Argentina

Member of the live streaming and media archiving team.

2009
Wintercamp — Amsterdam, Netherlands

Presentation of an experimental PyGame-based vision mixer, with the Dyne.org organisation.

2006 2nd prize
Transmediale, Festival for Art and New Media — Berlin, Germany

Presentation and exhibition of the Burn Station project.

2006
Take Away Festival — London, England

Exhibition of the Burn Station project.

2005
Shedhalle Art Centre — Zürich, Switzerland

Collaborative production on the Information Society; round tables and presentations.

2004
Aire Incondicional Tour — Geneva / Zürich / Basel, Switzerland

Presentation of the free software Videoflow and Audioflow, via Platoniq.net.

2004
1st International Pure Data Convention — Graz, Austria (IEM)

Presentation of own works: Videoflow and Audioflow.

2003
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) — Geneva, Switzerland

Construction of the independent media centre covering the summit and counter-summit.

2003
MACBA — Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona — Barcelona, Spain

'Cruzados' exhibition, with Hackitectura.net.

2003
CCCB — Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona — Barcelona, Spain

Media Space Invaders, Platoniq.net — presentation of own free software Videoflow.

2002
Convent de Sant Agustí Civic Centre — Barcelona, Spain

III Sound and Visual Art Show — 'Inmigra Beta_test', an audiovisual installation made jointly with the Argentine artist Caen Botto.

Three people on a rooftop beside a curved directional wifi antenna, town and sea behind.
Fadaiat — Hackitectura.net, 2004–2005. Cross-border wireless link over the Strait of Gibraltar.
A person working on a laptop outdoors against a bright sky.
Fadaiat — working on site.

artistic residencies

2012
Casa Ecológica Biyuka — Taganga, Colombia

Computing workshop for children at the Public Library; building a public medialab with recycled computers during the workshop.

2007
Net Culture Lab — Dornbirn, Austria

Artistic residency; development of Burn Station 2.0. The work was exhibited at MUMOK (Museum of Modern Art, Vienna).

2004
Medien Kunst Labor, Model Art Museum (Kunsthaus) — Graz, Austria

Eight-month artistic residency; development of Burn Station.

workshops taught

2012
LabSurLab — Quito, Ecuador

Workshop "Real-Time Transmission and Experimentation" with free software, at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC); live streaming of the gathering.

2012
Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca — Santander de Quilichao, Colombia

Workshop "Online Radio with Free Software" for the Nasa indigenous community, at Radio Pa'Yumat.

2011
LabSurLab — Medellín, Colombia

Workshop "Media Communication with Free Software", with August Black, at the Metropolitan Technological Institute (ITM); presentation of the works at the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín (MAMM).

2003
Open Air Radio '03 — CCCB — Barcelona, Spain

Audio streaming workshop with free software.

education

Postgraduate in International Management and Policy in Culture and Communication — FLACSO (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences)

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International Baccalaureate in English and History — International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO)
Baccalaureate in Sciences and Humanities — Escuela Normal Superior en Lenguas Vivas J. F. Kennedy