Curriculum Vitae Andrés Villa Torres Sound Art / Design / Interaction Address Nordstrasse 323 8037 Zürich, Schweiz E-mail [email protected] Online Portfolio www.andresvillatorres.com Telefone +41(0)789358556 Birthdate 13.August.1985 Birthplace México, Distrito Federal Nationality Mexican Civil Status Single Studies September.2012 - July 2013 CAS - Course of advanced studies in Research for Art Schools in Switzerland / Qualifikationsprogramm Forschung für die Kunsthochschulen Schweiz - Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) February 2011- June 2012 Master of Arts in Design, Field of excellence Interaction - Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) http://iad.zhdk.ch/de/projects/follow-or-being-followed 2004-2008 Bachelor of Arts in Industrie Design - Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Campus Xochimilco (UAM -X) 2001-2003 Highschool (Abitur equivalent) at Centro Universitario México (CUM) in Mexico City Profesional experience January 2012 - present Active freelancer & consultant for media production and interaction design Februar 2012 - present Research Associate - Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Interaction Design and Institute for Design Research November 2 011 - Februar 2012 Internship at Projektil GmbH, Zürich - visuals design, production and life performance www.projektil.ch August-November 2010 Internship at Lunatic Interactive GmbH, Berlin www.lunatic.de October 2008 - December 2009 Furniture, Interior Architecture and Concept Designer for Esrawe Studio, México City www.esrawe.com August 2007 - January 2008 Internship at IMSS (mexican institute for social security) as a research assistant for the ergonomics and workplace health laboratory Research, Art and Design Praxis Zürich, Nov 2014 -January 2015, “Embodied Interaction Advanced -Connecting Spaces” Assisting Max Rheiner teaching embodied interaction course 5th Semester in Bachelor Interaction Design at Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK) Zürich October 2014, “Code on the fly” Workshop about strategies for improvisation for musical performance with code written “on the fly” @ Klubi Baden September 2014 , “Apocalympics“ How does the Apocalypse sounds like in 45 minutes? Live Coding Act with Dan MacKinlay & Christoph Stähli @ Royal Baden,( http://www.royalbaden.ch/ Wordpress/?event=urknall-metamorphose-und-apokalypseelektronische-musiktrilogie ) Zürich September 2014, “Live Coding @ Ludicious” Live Coding Improvisation together with Dan MacKinlay & Karin Lustenberger, using Live Coding, Super Collider & Analog means @ Ludicious Game Festival ( http:// www.ludicious.ch/play-party-mit-dem-gamespace/ ) Zürich September 2014, “Private Defektive” Solo Act as “Private Defektive” Live Coding, Super Collider & Analog Synthesizers @ Provitreff Berlin, July 2014 , “Supercollider Meeting Talk” Speech on sound design and body motion, supercollider meeting @ N. K. Berlin (http://www.nkprojekt.de/) Andrés Villa Torres, Zürich, February, 2015 Zürich, June 2014 , “Apocalympics” & “Mico Sound art performance with Apocalympics (K. Lustenberger, D. MacKinlay, C. Stähli, Rex Workshop” D. Kahlina, ) @ Club Raum Rote Fabrik as a part of the Electronic Music Trilogy/ Live Coding Workshop with Mico Rex @ Kassette für Projekte (http://www.diekassette.ch/live-coding-workshop/) Zürich, March 2014 - Present, CTI Project “EFS” Conception, development and evaluation of Auditory Feedback for a Gait Trainer Device - CTI - Ability Switzerland - ZHdK - ZHAW - NTB Buchs (http://iad.zhdk.ch/de/ projects/efs-evaluation-feedback-systems-automated-gait-training) Zürich, January-March 2014, “Info-graphic” for University Zürich Development and Implementation from an online navigation iFrame (http:// www.oec.uzh.ch/research/excellence.html) Mineapolis, 2014, SIVE 2014 - first workshop Paper “Reproducible Sonification for Virtual Navigation”, Degara, N., Kuppanda, T., on Sonic Interactions for Virtual Neate, T., Yang, J.,Villa Torres, A. Environments / Part of IEEEVR2014 Proceedings pending. SIVE Programm: (http://media.aau.dk/~sts/siveprogram) Zürich, Nov -Dec 2013, “Embodied Interaction Advanced -The sixth sense” Assisting Max Rheiner teaching embodied interaction course 5th Semester in Bachelor Interaction Design at Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK) Eindhoven, 2013“ISon - Interactive Sonification Workshop” Fraunhofer Institute, Paper “Auditory Feedback for Gait Training Device” Villa Torres, A., Franinovic, K., Kluckner, V. Online Proceedings: (http://interactive-sonification.org/ISon2013/ proceedings/) Zürich, 2013 & 2014 “Diploma Exhibition IAD Conception, plan, coordination and student mentoring for the diploma exhibition from ZHdK” the Bachelor Students - ZHdK - Interaction Design in 2013 and 2014 Lugano 2012, “Swiss Design Network Symposium”, SUPSI Demo presentation at the demo venue - adaptive rhythmic auditory feedback through walking gestures Zürich, April 2011, “Super Collider Workshop” With Jorge Ramírez and Ernesto Romero from Mico Rex - (http://viad.zhdk.ch/de/ stories/12/04/collider-workshop) Zürich, 2011, 2012 & 2013 “Instant Favelas” Cardboard installation - urban intervention - simulation of urban parasites (http:// instantfavelas.org/) Languages Spanish Native Speaker German Second language English Second language French Basic Knowledge Further training 2014 (Summer) 3 Day Workshop on 3D Printing and digital fabrication “3D Print Now!” http:// 3dprintnow2.tumblr.com/ 2011 and 2012 (Summer) WuZu Workshop, Zurich University of the Arts and Jiangnan University - Design collaboration known as “Wuxi-Zurich” (Wu-Zu). Participation during workshops 2011 at Zurich and 2012 at Wuxi 2011 Video Edition - ZHdK - 25 Hours 2008 Course about artistic experimentation with Textiles at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) Mexiko-City - 170 Hours 2007 Course about Illustration and digital drawing at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Campus Xochimilco (UAM-X) Mexiko-Stadt – 90 Hours 2006 Course about digital sketching at Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) Mexiko-Stadt 25 Hours 1992-2014 Diverse musical training Software and multimedia Video Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects Illustration and Image Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign Vektor, 3D and Rendering 3D Studio, Blender, Cinema 4D, AutoCAD, Solid Works, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, V-Ray Interaction and programming Max MSP, Unity, Processing, Arduino, Pure Data, HTML 5, CSS, jQuery, PHP, C#, Javascript, OpenFrameworks, WebGL, SuperCollider Music production and sound Ableton Live, Super Collider, Reaper Andrés Villa Torres, Zürich, February, 2015