_Bio Gilberto Esparza was born in Aguascalientes, México, 1975. Bachelor of Fine Arts at The University of Guanajuato, he realized a one-year exchange at the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia, Spain.
A member of the National System of Art Creators, Gilberto Esparza received the support of The Prince Claus Fund. His work was included in Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. He has received the Golden Nica, Hybrid Art at the Prix Ars Electronica 2015, second Vida 13 award from Fundación Telefónica de España, honorable mention at Ars Electrónica, Linz Austria and the Ibero-American Production Award VIDA 09.
_Approach Gilberto Esparza investigates technology as a possibility to pose questions and solutions to the impacts of the human footprint on life on Earth, based on a vindication of the intelligence inherent in life and rethinking the relationship of human societies with the natural environment. His practice employs recycling consumer technology and experiments with biotechnology.
Research centers such as the Chemical Engineering and Processes Group of the University of Cartagena in Spain, the CINVESTAV Mechatronics Area of the National Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Institute in Juriquilla, UNAM, Digital Arts at the Guanajuato University have collaborated on his projects.
_Project Symbiont Island is a research that begins with creating floating constructions that function as organisms. These organisms seek to actively reflect on the relationship of human communities regarding water in specific cultural and historical contexts. The intention is to promote resilient relationships that involve interspecies collaboration networks, from a comprehensive perspective that involves communities, their emotional connection with water and awareness of its care.
Gilberto Esparza's project functions as an activity in which the work will be assembled. This involves assembling its flotation system, its biofilters, integrating substrates and sowing seeds. Thus, this activity works as a workshop in which the public will learn how to build biofilters for different applications. Likewise, this project proposes the recovery of ancestral technologies that can be applied in agroecology.
Photo credits : Logistica Gilberto Esparza
