Marlon Barrios Solano

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Generative AI + Computational Creativity and Cognition + Dance Improvisation + Creative Coding + Generative Art + Complex Systems + Awareness Practices

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I am a Venezuelan-American interdisciplinary artist, creative technologist, and researcher with a background in dance, software engineering, and cognitive science. My work focuses on generative AI, machine learning, creative coding, and interactive performance. Since August 2024, I’ve been the Maker-in-Residence at the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship (CAME) at the University of Florida, where I focus on AI, art, and diasporas. I’m also currently an artist-in-residence with the Rewilding Cultures program at Radiona in Zagreb, Croatia, and at Lake Studios Berlin, Germany, where I’m a founding member.

My work investigates computational creativity and synthetic cognition, designing hybrid complex systems where language and self-organizing processes generate aesthetic experiences. My artistic practice includes machine learning for embodied digital interaction, generative AI, movement and voice, creative coding and app development, generative writing, bottom-up robotics, dance improvisation, and Vipassana meditation. I deploy my work as dynamic browser-based art, open-source code, improvisational scores, sound environments, AI chatbots, and video. I organize these into installations, workshops, participatory performances, and lectures, all published and distributed under open-source licenses.

In 2007, I launched dance-tech.net, a social network for interdisciplinary explorers of movement performance, innovators, and emergent performance practices. I’ve produced over 200 video interviews as one of the first international video bloggers dedicated to the intersection of dance, arts, and digital technology. I’ve also published several essays and created pioneering XR projects for knowledge transmission within dance and art festivals. In 2011, I created movimiento.org in Spanish and Portuguese, supported by the South American Network of Dance. These networks have received support from Motion Bank and The Forsythe Company (Germany), Panorama Festival (Brazil), Transmediaakademy (Germany), Lake Studios Berlin, and many others.

From 2013 to 2016, I was a research associate at the Inter-University of Dance/University of the Arts (UDK/HZT) in Berlin, Germany. I was also a 2017 Hombroich Fellow in Germany, an artist/researcher in residence at ICK Amsterdam (2013–2014), and at the Gilles Jobin Company in Geneva, Switzerland (2009–2012).

I’ve written essays for the books Dance In the Head/Tanz im Kopf and Transmission in Motion: The Technologizing of Dance, edited by Johannes Birringer and Maaike Bleeker, respectively. Some of my interviews have also been transcribed and published by Contact Quarterly.

As a contemporary dancer and improviser in New York (1994–2001), I collaborated with choreographers such as Lynn Shapiro, Merian Soto, Dean Moss, Bill Young, and Susan Marshall, and musicians like Philip Glass, John Zorn, and Erik Friedlander. I’ve participated in numerous festivals and taught both nationally and internationally. I studied and practiced improvisation with Nancy Stark Smith, Jennifer Monson, Bebe Miller, KJ Holmes, and David Zambrano. In Venezuela (1981–1994), I apprenticed with DanzaLuz and DanzaHoy and danced professionally with Aktion Colectiva and Rajatabla Danza. I also co-founded Danza Contemporánea de Maracaibo with Yasmin Villavicencio in 1986.

I hold an MFA in Dance and Technology from The Ohio State University (2004) and completed the General Assembly Software Engineering Immersive Program in 2021. I’m also certified in Vipassana/Mindfulness Meditation by Spirit Rock Meditation Center, a certified 200-hour Embodyoga teacher, and have completed one year of the Somatic Experiencing Certification Program.

Marlon Barrios Solano

Marlon Barrios Solano

Chat with Marlon-AI

Generative AI + Computational Creativity and Cognition + Dance Improvisation + Creative Coding + Generative Art + Complex Systems + Awareness Practices

Bio + How like a Network

SOFTWARE SKILLS

SELECTED PROJECTS, EXPERIMENTS AND WORKING SPACES (Performance/installations/AI/apps)

Duets in Latent Space (Performance-lecture)

Playlist of Video Works (AI)

WEB WORKS

Experimental Chatbots

The AI Model is the Message (Generative AI Experiments training models and chaining)

More genartive Ai experiments

Social Networking

Creative Coding + Cellular Automata

Creative Coding + Clocks

Creative Coding + Image Processing

Creative Coding + Complexity + Emergence

Sculpting Illusions

Affects

Sound Visualizers

With Webcam Input + Body and Face tracking with Machine Learning

WEB3

FULL STACK DEVELOPMENT

MOBILE DEVELOPMENT IN REACT NATIVE

PERFORMANCE RESEARCH, TEACHING and WRITING

UnstableLandscape | Generativity and the Embodiments of Complexity

Minfulness + Somatics