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