Manuel Fernández
Màlaga, 1977.
Manuel Fernández works at the intersection of art, popular culture and the internet to investigate how technologies transform our perception of reality.
Artwork in the collection
On Kawara Time Machine, 2011
About the artwork
It is an ongoing Internet project. A javascript counter automates the time-based works of On Kawara from the beginning of the "Date Paintings" on January 4, 1966, to the actual date checked on the operating system clock.
Artistic career: Manuel Fernández
Artistic practice and research
Their artistic practice begins at the intersection of art, popular culture, and the Internet. It explores the impact of technologies on society and their consequences on how we perceive and experience reality.
Career and projects
He investigates new processes involved in the creation and production of the art object, its distribution, presentation, and its consumption in the era of the Internet of Things. Fernández has several works in the Rhizome Artbase at the New Museum in New York and has been exhibited in America, Europe, and Asia, including The Museum of the Moving Image (New York), The Armory Show (New York), PHotoEspaña (Madrid), Art Basel Miami Beach, ARCO (Madrid), The Photographers' Gallery (London), Galerie Verney-Carron (Lyon), Paradis.
A space for screen addiction (Marseille), Xpo Gallery (Paris), and Super Dakota (Brussels). Manuel served as a juror for the "ERROR 415" new media award organized by ArtSlant in 2013 and received the ARCO-BEEP Electronic Art Award in 2014. His work has been featured in multiple outlets, including El País, Libération, Triangulation Blog, I Like This Art, Dazed Digital, FastCo Blog, Complex Blog, O Fluxo Blog, Notodo trend magazine, and Minus Space Blog, among others.
His work "On Kawara Time Machine" won the 9th edition of the ARCO-BEEP Electronic Art Award. Work in the collection: On Kawara Time Machine