Mario Santamaria, Travel to my Website, 2016

“Repetition with my body of the movement of a data package on the Internet, from my home to the server where my artist website is hosted.

This website presents the result of this absurd journey simulating a traceroute that takes as long to complete as the artist in physically travelling to his server.”

Mario Santamaría (Spain, 1985) graduated in Fine Arts and holds a Master in Visual Arts and Multimedia, both completed at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He has been a resident artist at Art3, Valence (2017), Hangar, Barcelona (2014-2016), Hisk, Gantes (2016); Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany (2015); Flax Art Studios, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2014); Sarai, New Delhi, India (2012). He has recently been a finalist in the Post-Photography Prototyping Prize organized by the Fotomuseum Winterthur.

Selected exhibitions include: Can’t Speak for Itself, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2018), A Certain Darkness, CaixaForum Barcelona (2018); No secrets!, Münchner Stadtmuseum (2017); Infosphere. ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany (2015); Especies de Espacios. MACBA, Barcelona (2015); The Act & The Tracer. WKV, Stuttgart, Germany (2015); Look into the net. Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg, Germany (2014) and Fuga, Antoni Tàpies Foundation. Barcelona (2013).