Marlon Barrios Solano

Born in Lalent Space @Submerge Festival 2025 @Lake Studios Berlin

Interdisciplinary Arts + AI + Creativity + Cognition

Marlon Barrios Solano (short bio)

Marlon Barrios Solano (Venezuela–USA) is an interdisciplinary artist, creative technologist, and researcher working at the intersection of generative AI, performance, creative coding, and critical cognition. With a background in dance, software engineering, and cognitive science, his work explores cognitive systems and assemblages, cognitive media, and hybrid cognition as material—investigating how perception, thought, and computation co-compose new forms of experience and understanding.

Since August 2024, he has served as Maker-in-Residence at the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship (CAME) at the University of Florida, where he also teaches in the university’s AI & Art Certificate Program. He is a founding member and researcher-in-residence at Lake Studios Berlin. In 2025, he was awarded the Beyond Gravity / Decolonizing the Digital Residency at Theater im Depot in Dortmund, Germany.

His long-term projects, Born in Latent Space and UnstableLandscape, use AI systems as poetic collaborators in the creation of speculative documents, immersive installations, raves, and performance-lectures. Through generative and procedural strategies, his work merges algorithmic aesthetics with contemplative and somatic practices to develop knowledge dramaturgies—experimental frameworks where identity, memory, and cognition are remixed through embodied, queer, and diasporic lenses.

Marlon founded the pioneering platform dance-tech.net in 2007 and has produced over 200 interviews with artists working at the edge of performance and technology. His work has been presented internationally and supported by institutions such as Motion Bank, ICK Amsterdam, Gilles Jobin Company, and UDK/HZT Berlin. He holds an MFA in Dance and Technology from Ohio State University, Software Engineering Immersion Porgram by General Assembly (NYC) and is a certified Mindfulness (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) and Embodyoga® teacher.

His artistic practice unfolds through lecture performances, interactive environments, installations, single-channel video works, knowledge labs, and constellations of web applications—recursive architectures where cognition, code, and choreography interact as evolving systems of inquiry.