Pierre Puentes Gómez

Designer interested in interactive media, graphic design and audiovisual production.


Education

2014 - 2018
Universidad de los Andes
Undergraduate in Design (emphasis in design for communication)


Short courses and workshops

2023
La Pequeña Granja de Mamá Lulú
Principios de manejo y construcción con guadua - practical course on bio-construction with guadua bamboo led by Hernando Hincapié and his family.


2023
Zero To Mastery
JavaScript: The Advanced Concepts - modern advanced JavaScript practices virtual course lead by Andrei Neagoie.


2022
Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENA)
Agricultura ecologica: fertilizacion, suelos y cultivos - principles of agroecology virtual course lead by Diego Alberto Ruiz Sanabria.


2021
Royal College of Art
Ethical Practices to Guide Innovation - Responsible design principles and solutions virtual course lead by Laura Ferrarello and Rute Fiadeiro.


2020
Cinemateca Distrital de Bogotá & Gusano Films
Artificio: Taller de creatividad e inteligencia artificial - AI and creativity workshop lead by Jorge Caballero, Anna Giralt Gris, Sofia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick.




Experience

2024
Universidad de los Andes
Research professional. Interface design, web development and video production for the 'Viajeros del Orinoco del Siglo XVIII' project.


2023
Universidad de los Andes
Research professional. Interface design and web programming for the 'Inventar Colombia' project.


2022
IDARTES & Plataforma Bogotá
Development of the graphics and artificial intelligence laboratory 'Injertos Tipográficos'.


2021
Freelance
Web development for 'Boroló', an initiative by the NGO Artemisas and the journalism medium 070 (Cerosetenta) to talk about protest and social mobilization.


2020 - 2021
Near Space Interface
An initiative developed alongside Andrés Burbano that seeks to investigate planetary phenomena through data and computational tools.


2020 - Present
I.D BOGOTÁ MUSIC (https://idbogotamusic.bandcamp.com/)
Art direction, graphic design for drum and bass releases and audiovisual production for live events (VJing, video mapping and livestreaming).


2020
Universidad de los Andes
Web-optimized 3D models creation and web page development for the 'Archaeological Remote Sensing' investigation project of the School of Architecture and Design.


2020
Universidad de los Andes
Assistant professor in the Master in Digital Humanities' summer course 'Communicate data. Visualize knowledge'.


2020
Freelance
3D and video production for Andrés Burbano and Karen Holmberg’s 'Double Sided Immersion' virtual and physical installation in the 'Critical Zones' exposition at the ZKM | Center for Art And Media Karlsruhe.


2019 - Present
Piesã (instagram.com/piesa__)
Graphic and editorial experimentation project alongside Sara Vera with three published magazines.


2018 - 2019
RE.SET AUDIO
Art direction, graphic design for drum and bass releases and audiovisual production for live events (VJing and video mapping).


2018 - 2019
Fundación Horizontal & El Equipo Mazzanti
Development of tools, strategies, interactive hardware/software and web pages for spatial interventions.


2018
Freelance
Concept, art direction and graphic design for the first edition of the CØSMOS Festival produced by OFF Conciertos, BAUM and Trazendez.


2018
Universidad de los Andes
- Investigation Assistant for the Andrés Burbano's FAPA research grant's project 'Visualization, Sonification, and Materialization of Data'.
- Teaching Assistant in the 'Interactive Environments' class of the School of Architecture and Design.


2017 - 2022
Freelance
VJing, video mapping and video production for Radikal Styles Festival, Bogotrax Festival, Estereo Picnic Festival, ahora and Unterbog.


2017
Fundación Cultural Rat Trap
Photographic archive, screen printing and web page development.


2017
+Play
- Audiovisual production with new technologies (VR and visual programming).
- 3D animation for 'Una observación al fin del mundo', winner project of the 2017 IDARTES Fulldome video art creation grant and the Competitive Exhibition at the Immersphere Festival (BR).




Publications

2023
.able journal
Holmberg, Karen, et al. “Chaitén: Land of Volcanoes.” .able journal, 2023. https://able-journal.org/chaiten-land-of-volcanoes/




Exhibitions

2023
Festival ARTTEC + Candy Flip Festival
Exhibition of the video art piece 'Cosmovisión'.


2023
Antidote Festival
fx(hash) Art Tour Space
Online exhibition of some of my generative tokens minted in the fx(hash) platform.


2023
Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art
2023 mowna Biennial
Online exhibition of the photogrammetry of the 16'x10'x10' 'Sau' ceramic sculpture hand-painted by Charlie Mai and Glenn Mai.


2023
Hong-Gah Museum (TW)
'Generative Taipei On-Site' by VolumeDAO
Exhibition of the generative piece 'Muraka' in the section 'Recursiveness'.




Conferences

2020
Online conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada
E.8 Unearthing the Imaginary panel
Near Space Interface keynote.




Awards and distinctions

2021
IDARTES
'Plataforma Bogotá' creation grant in Art, Science and Technology for the production of the interdiciplinary laboratory Injertos Tipográficos'.


2020
Macon Film Festival
Part of the 2020 Macon Film Festival / MAS Fulldome official selection with the work 'Materia Ondulatoria'.


2019
IDARTES
Fulldome video art creation grant for the production of "Materia Ondulatoria" with Daniel Shambo.


2014
Universidad de los Andes
'Quiero Estudiar Escala' undergraduate scholarship.




Languages

Spanish | native

English | IELTS Academic 7.5 (C1)

French | basic (A2)

HTML/CSS

JavaScript

Processing | Wiring / Arduino

Python

Max/MSP

TouchDesigner