Bio
Ms. Bea was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she studied Visual Arts at the University of Buenos Aires.
Her passion for image and sound spurred more than a decade of notable projects. Ms. Bea began a career as a DJ in 1999. In 2000 she played at Club Morocco, one of the most influential dance clubs in South America; and became a frequent Dj guest of Brandon Gay Day, a queer collective crew in the underground scene. Her love of visuals leads her to take courses with renowned Argentine photographer, Ignacio Iasparra. Subsequently, she began showcasing her work in the emerging Buenos Aires' art scene.
In 2002 Ms. Bea moved to Los Angeles, CA, where she and partner, Santiago Garfunkel, started the web-design studio Linealmedia. In 2003 she co-founded PixelUp, a collective of artists that have displayed a variety of visual works at several Los Angeles events, including Create Fixate and Early Bird (a multimedia experience created by artist Rodolfo Juarez.)
In October 2008 Ms Bea and fellow argentinean artist Jimena Sarno created and produced "El Miedo" a frame by frame animation based on an Argentinean myth as told by Eduardo Galeano in his book "Memoria del Fuego". The movie was launched on gothober.com 2008 #24 and was selected for Ann Arbor Film Festival's Animated Forest program.
In addition to her work as a designer for her online t-shirt’s company: A Blank Sheet; Ms. Bea is currently working in several projects that includes sound, visuals and its synergy; actively collaborating with San Diego's finest Fab Lab and Media Arts Center, partnering with photographer/director Tim Cogshell on Sugar Shot Photography, curating dj sets for brooklyn's talented collective Percussion Lab, capturing the world around with all kind of devices and broadcasting Tomorrow Goodbye Radio online thru the international artistic platform Radio23.org,
Ms. Bea's interest in digital creativity is paralleled with her love for detail; sense stimulation, abstraction, minimalism, fragments of time, and the nuances of light...and the concept that so much magnificence exists that is easily ignored in the inertia of our modern lives.
Solo Exhibitions
Spectra :: November 2006 – Cyberjava Art Space – Los Angeles
Imaginarium :: October 2000 - La Nave de los Sueños - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Collective Exhibitions and Audio/Visual Performances
Nocturnal Festival - The Sunken Garden Stage | vj performance with The Visualante :: September 2009 - NOS Center, San Bernardino, CA
Electric Daisy Carnival | vj performance with The Visualante :: June 2009 - Los Angeles
Barbara Togander :: November 2008 - @ No Avestruz - Buenos Aires, Argentina
City Pulse - Create Fixate - Reunion | C:F 6th Anniversary :: December 2007 - Los Angeles
Create Fixate - Down to Earth :: April 2007 - Los Angeles
Early Bird - Nonsense Editing Sessions :: March/June 2005 Los Angeles
Create Fixate - The Optical Lounge :: July 2004 Projections - Los Angeles
Create Fixate - The Optical Lounge and Audio Lab :: March 2003 - Slide projections - Los Angeles
Barbara Togander - ??perCcOnTrvoZcoRn :: May 2001 - Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Open House 6 - The Buenos Aires Affair :: April 2001 - Boquitas Pintadas Pop Hotel - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sensorial Mediatica | Multimedia Artists Exhibition :: November 2000 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Suscripcion @ BrandonGayDay :: September 2000 - Slide projections Buenos Aires, Argentina
Festival of Light :: 1999 - Slide Projections - Obelisco - Buenos Aires, Argentina
