Manolo Cocho
Mexico City, Mexico
About the Artist
Manolo Cocho was born in México City in 1968. He is a professional artist, curator and international cultural art manager. Cocho is a jury member of the National System of Art Creators of FONCA, as well as a member of the SAT Payment in Kind Program of the government. He is a researcher at UNAM University and is responsible for the Art and Science program. As he began to create art in the mid-eighties, his work was developed by diverse disciplines such as painting, sculpture, installation art, video-art, photography, jewelry, sound-art, performances and other disciplines throughout the span of thirty years. Cocho has exhibited in more than one hundred solo art exhibitions and two hundred group exhibitions in Mexico and in the international contemporary art circle. Currently residing in the desert of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, he sometimes lives in Mexico City, Cuernavaca City and in the city of Trieste, Italy. He is dedicated to the international contemporary art exchange and his works are in the collections of art museums.
About “Helios”
As part of Apple Artificial Life art project I present the Helios video. Helios is the Greek name of the Sun God. The video is the outcome of a research about the Sun, about it essence and it future. Is a combination of myth, history and technological view of the future. In this project I collaborated with the sound art artist Ricardo Dal Farra who gave me the audio and with the photo astronomer Cesar Cantu who gave me a beautiful photos collection of the Sun surface for skinning the 3D virtual sculpture models. The Sun is a basic force energy for the life, this video is a meaning about the technological evolution that will be change do not only the biological life, ever the Earth and the Sun. Helios present a robotic Sun, a mix between old, spiritual, roots values and a futuristic view of the techno vanguard.
