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24.awards he has received are a Mention of Honour at Ars Electronica. He lives in Toulouse (France). http://www.pablovalbuena.com ◄Mar Canet (Barcelona, 1981) has worked withVarvara Guljajeva since 2009 developing art andnew media projects, in interactive installations, interventions in public spaces and interventions 29. combining art and design, such as the Kniticmachine. They were recently chosen by Google to develop the interactive piece Wishing Wall as part of the DevArt project. With a background in art, design and videogame development, Canet is cofounder of the Derivart and Lummo groups. He lives and works in Tallin (Estonia). http://www. mcanet.info ◄Clara Boj and Diego Díaz (Murcia, 1975) haveworked together since 2000 on projects that bringnew technologies to the public space. They havebeen awarded various research grants by centres 30. such as the Interface Culture Lab in Linz (Austria), Symbiotic System Lab in Kyoto (Japan) and theInteraction and Entertainment Research Center in Singapore. They both have doctorates and teachat the universities of Murcia and Castellón. http:// www.lalalab.org ◄Patxi Araujo (Pamplona, 1967) focuses his workas an artist on the meeting ground between new 31. technologies and the performing arts, combining itwith teaching at the Department of Art and Tech-nology of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Universityof the Basque Country. http://patxiaraujo.com ◄Moisés Mañas (Elda, Alicante, 1973) has shown hiswork at many digital art festivals as well as in mu-seums and art centres and has focused his career 32. on the academic environment, earning a doctoratein Visual Arts and Intermedia from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He has completed research residencies in Europe and the United States. http://www.hibye.org ◄Daniel Palacios (Córdoba, 1981) has presented hiswork at various international museums, festivals 33. and art fairs, producing works on commission forprivate collections and institutions such as theCentro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo and the London Science Museum, as well as companies such as Nike. His Berlin studio currently o ers the possibility of speci c projects, adaptations or new productions of his projects on commission. http:// danielpalacios.info ◄Daniel Canogar (Madrid, 1964) is an artist with a sound track record who has shown his work both in large installations in the public space (such as the recent Storming Times Square, in New York) and in exhibitions in museums and galleries.He is currently represented by the Max Estrella (Madrid), Guy Bärtschi (Geneva), Mimmo Scogna- miglio Artecontemporanea (Milan) and bitforms (New York) galleries. He has been artistic director of the VIDA contest and has written various es- says on architecture, photography and new media art. http://www.danielcanogar.com ◄Jaime de los Ríos (San Sebastián, 1982) is an active artist and founder of the open Art and Science laboratory ARTEK[Lab] who has worked in col- laboration with other artists, institutions such as Arteleku and festivals like ArtFutura. He recently completed a project with French artist Sylvie Bal- estra as part of AC/E’s programmes of residencies. http://www.arteklab.org ◄In 1998, ARCO introduced the ARCO Electróni- co selection, which was replaced in 2000 by Netspace@ARCO, which lasted until 2002. In 2005, the space was again presented as Black Box and in 2008 it was renamed Expanded Box, with separate sections for video art and digital art. Expanded Box was discontinued in 2010. ◄The directors of Postmasters (New York), Car- roll/Fletcher (London), bitforms (New York) and DAM (Berlin), galleries specialising in digital art, criticise the creation of a separate space at art fairs such as Black Box at ARCO (Waelder, 2010a, p. 71; Waelder, 2010b, p. 117; Waelder, 2011, p. 68; Waelder, 2013, p. 37). ◄César Escudero (Ávila, 1983) focuses on studying interfaces, based on his academic grounding in ar- chitecture and design at Salamanca University and25.26.27.28.AC/E DIGITAL CULTURE ANNUAL REPORT 201649Smart Culture: Impact of the Internet on Artistic Creation