Marlon Barrios Solano

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

Interdisciplinary Arts + AI + Creativity + Cognition

Marlon Barrios Solano (short bio)

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

Since August 2024, I have served as Maker-in-Residence at the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship (CAME) at the University of Florida, where I also teach in the university’s AI & Art Certificate Program. My role allows me to integrate research, pedagogy, and experimental practice—developing transdisciplinary frameworks that bring embodied knowledge into dialogue with artificial intelligence.

My long-term projects engage AI systems as poetic collaborators in the creation of speculative documents, web applications, interactive installations, raves, and lecture-performances. Through generative and procedural strategies, I merge machine learning and algorithmic aesthetics with contemplative and somatic practices to develop what I call knowledge dramaturgies—experimental frameworks in which identity, memory, and cognition are remixed through embodied, queer, and diasporic lenses.

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

My work has been presented internationally and supported by institutions including Motion Bank, ICK Amsterdam, and the Gilles Jobin Company. I served as a research associate at UDK/HZT Berlin (2012–2016) and am a founding member and researcher-in-residence at Lake Studios Berlin. In 2025, I was awarded the Beyond Gravity / Decolonizing the Digital Residency at Theater im Depot in Dortmund, Germany.

I hold an MFA in Dance and Technology from The Ohio State University, completed the Software Engineering Immersion Program at General Assembly (NYC), and am a certified Mindfulness teacher (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) and Embodyoga® teacher.

Across all these modalities, I treat AI not merely as a tool, but as a cognitive partner—an unstable, generative terrain through which new forms of subjectivity and collective imagination can emerge.