Mathías Chumino aka C03RA (Montevideo, Uruguay) is a new media artist, specialized in experimental image and sound manipulation, using state of the art software and hardware. His work delivers captivating and immersive experiences achieved by a combination of heavy image processing with polished aesthetics and a poetic vision of the world.
His work in film and visual arts has been showcased and awarded in traditional and digital media and in many festivals around the world.
Artistic CV
2024
I was invited to serve as a juror for the 17th Edition of ARTE ÚNICO, the most prestigious art and design competition in Latin America.
THERAT05 art, exhibited at PLEXUS PROYECT. New York City, USA
THERAT05 Live Performance at MUTEK. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I was awarded the Justino Zavala Muniz Grant for Artistic Creation (FEFCA) by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay MEC, in the Visual Arts category for artists with 10 years of experience.
Workshop: Entre cyborgs y robots – A theoretical and practical workshop on robotic creation in art. MediaLab CCEBA
Workshop: Cyanovolt / Máquinas Biológicas – Focused on creating bio-photovoltaic cells with cyanobacteria to generate energy for powering devices and creating sounds. Labtinoamerica.
2023
KOKKINO with Tanky - First Prize in the Datos+Arte 2023 prize of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and ABRELATAM/CONDATOS. Montevideo, Uruguay.
ATTRACTOR REPELLER with Autopol - ARTLAB. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
MIMESIS with PAR - Immersive AV Performance in Magma Futura. Montevideo, Uruguay.
ELISE with Tanky AR Sculpture, Urban Intervention part of #MakeUsVisible. Worms, Germany.
Exhibited at DTZ Conference 2023 Selected works by Arora. Ontario, Canada.
DIÁLOGOS ARTE/CIENCIA - GEN Center for Arts and Sciences. Montevideo, Uruguay.
2022
UBICUO - Collectiva Residency X Mapping Festival. Geneva, Switzerland.
ATTRACTOR REPELLER FULLDOME - Exit Festival, at the Planetarium. Uruguay.
VFX Direction for visuals for the artist Bad Bunny´s P FKN R tour and "El Último Tour Del Mundo,"
BIT.R.I.O.L. with Tanky awarded by the National Institute of Visual Arts of the Ministry of Education and Culture and exhibited at EAC museum. Montevideo, Uruguay.
Exhibited at the CADAF Art Fair NYC, 2022. New York City, United States.
Exhibited at the 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival - ADAF. Athens, Greece.
BRUJA with Tanky - AR. Commissioned by the city and #MakeUsVisible x denkFEmale. Munich, Germany.
METAGARDEN with Tanky: Patchlab Digital Art Festival - Immersive Garden Exhibition. Krakow, Poland.
Exhibited at the 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival - ADAF. Athens, Greece.
Your Body with Tanky - re-nd-er-ed Engage 2022. United Kingdom.
2021
Ars Electronica Garden NYC - VR performance and AR works with Tanky. New York City, USA
SOLAR with Tanky - AR Urban intervention of the city letters. Winner of "La Cultura va por Barrios" by the city council of Montevideo, Uruguay
HERMAFRODITA - DE-CONTEXTS exhibition curated by LoosenArt. Rome, Italy.
En la noche at Centro de Exposiciones Subte.Montevideo, Uruguay.
Re_nd_er_ed - ENGAGE 2021, Glasgow, UK.
30 Seconds Museum by Neo Shibuya TV and New Media Art. 85 screens throughout Shibuya district. Tokyo, Japan.
Solar Indusium with C03RA - Exhibited at Digital Art Month New York. New York City, USA
Exhibited in the "Art for the Future" Biennale at The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow - Russia.
Exhibited at the CADAF, Digital Art Month Paris. Paris, France.
Your Body with Tanky- Experimental music video, Augmented Reality in collaboration with NNHMN. Berlin, Germany
G4I4 - .ART exhibition at Concrete House, curated by Ars Electronica. Austria.
Exhibited at Meta-Menagerie NFT / A Rendered Reality, curated by Vizmesh. New York City, USA
DESCOMPOD with Tanky - virtual exhibition Festival FAP-TEK, Centro Cultural España en Montevideo, Uruguay.
BR3M3N - Hoch Kant Film Fest, urban intervention. Bremen, Germany.
2020
HERMAFRODITA - Virtuality Experience Paris. France.
Cops and Robbers, Director of an experimental animation segment dealing with the use of technology to depict racial profiling in the collaborative and nonprofit short film Cops and Robbers, alongside various artists and studios worldwide. The short was created in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement. It has just been acquired by Netflix and is under consideration for the Academy Awards. EE.UU.
ATTRACTOR REPELLER with Autopol: Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin Festival.
Exhibited at Creative Code Art Festival curated by New Media Art, Creative Code Art, Extender Reality Ensemble, Never Knows Better in Lightbox. New York City, USA.
Director of VFX for "Próximamente: Visiones desde el territorio mínimo" Uruguayan Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2020. Venice, Italy.
2019
ATTRACTOR REPELLER with Autopol:
-Selected for the 49° Premio Montevideo De Artes Visuales Prize at the Centro de Exposiciones Subte Museum
-Live performance in “Audiovisual concerts” alongside Franck Vigroux and Antoine Schmitt from France at Espacio Idea, MEC. Uruguay
-Live performance in Montevideo Contemporánea curated by the Montevideo Cervantino Festival with Javier Piñango and Juan Antonio Nieto from Spain at CCE
-Live performance Encuentro Estival De Arte Y Tecnología + Processing Community Day at the Cabildo de Montevideo
-Live performance SOCO Festival with D´Incise and Julie Semoroz / JMO from Switzerland at Pensión Cultural Milán
-Live performance Bajo El Hormigón La Playa curated by Candela Bado
2017
N0RD3R with PAR - Visual Art Week International Festival. CDMX, Mexico.
2016
VFX Director of "Possesion Begins," interactive trailer for the series "Outcast" by Cinemax, won a Bronze Lion at the Cannes Festival in "Digital Crafts," as well as a Grand Clio, Gold Clio, Silver Clio, and a Silver at IAB mixx
2014
Ahí Viene la Tormenta with PAR - Live performance at SOCO Festival at the Centro Cultural de España in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Live performance at Kiosko as part of Museos en la Noche. Montevideo, Uruguay.
2013
FUTURO with PAR - 50th anniversary of the Goethe Institut curated by CTM Festival Berlin & SOCO Festival alongside Jan Jelinek & Andrew Pekler from Germany. Sala Hugo Balso, Auditorio del Sodre, Montevideo, Uruguay.
filmography
2022
Lobo Feroz, VFX Editor – España
Utama, VFX Editor, Sundance Film Festival winner. Uruguay y Bolivia
2021
Don´t Breathe 2, VFX Editor. EE.UU.
2020
Cops and Robbers - Shortfilm. Director of an segment. EE.UU.
Half Brothers, Half Brothers, VFX Editor of the Focus Features film. EE.UU.
Made in China, Editor del cortometraje. - Uruguay.
2019
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson, VFX Editor, VFX Artist. EE.UU.
Life to Ashes, Editor. Australia
Escape Room, VFX Editor. Sony Pictures. EE.UU.
2018
The Girl in the Spider´s Web, VFX Editor. Columbia Pictures. EE.U
2017
El Sereno, Title secuence director, VFX Director. Uruguay
The Institute, VFX Editor. EE.UU.
2016
VFX Director of "Possesion Begins," interactive trailer for the series "Outcast" by Cinemax. EE.UU.
M.A.M.O.N. (Mexicans Over Nationwide), Editor and VFX artist of the viral short film with over 14 million views on YouTube, selected in over 200 festivals worldwide, including Cannes, and has won over 50 awards including "Best Editing" for Mathías at the Ibiza International Short Film Festival, Spain. Uruguay
Aztec Warrior, VFX Editor, VFX artist. Lyonsgate, Televisa - USA and Mexico
Don't Breathe, VFX Editor - USA
2015
Thanatos, Director of the glitch music video for the artist Harvest - Uruguay
2013
Evil Dead, Editor and VFX artist of the opening credits sequence of the film. TriStar Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures - USA