NILTON MALTZ
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Nilton Maltz was born in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil in 1969. Lives and works in New York, NY, USA. Studied painting at the Jungian group atelier, in POA, in 1994 and 1995. Studied painting, video-art, video-installation and contemporary art theory from 1996 to 1999 at the School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage- Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Obtained a BS in Electrical engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - 1987-1992. Obtained a Master of Science in engineering of materials at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - 1993-1995. Obtained a certificate in Project Management from UC-Berkeley - 2002-2005.Self taught in Jungian Psychology.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
- Temporary Con - Windows video projects at Torstrasse 170 and Z-Bar at Bergstrasse 2 - Berlin, Germany
2009
- Luminous Flux - Galapagos Art Space - Brooklyn, NY
- Future = Fertile - Leo Kuelbs Collection - New York, NY
2008
- G7: Group Art Show - Tivoli Home - New York, NY
- Space Within Space - Leo Kuelbs Collection - New York, NY
- Second New York City Anarchist Bookfair - Judson Memorial Church - New York, NY
2007
- First New York City Anarchist Bookfair - Judson Memorial Church - New York, NY
2006
- 5ptz open studios - 5ptz, New York, NY
2005
- Digital DNA - Palo Alto City Hall DDNA Exhibition - Palo Alto, CA .
- Digital DNA - Permanent Public Art Work - In collaboration with Adriana Varella - Lytton Plaza, Palo Alto, CA.
- 10th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair - San Francisco County Fair Building on Golden Gate Park - San Francisco, CA.
2003
- Art Explosion Open Studios - Art Explosion - San Francisco, CA.
2002
- San Jose windows project - Temporary public art work - San Jose, CA.
2000
- Paradoxical Images - School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
1999
- Random Field - Gallery for Contemporary Arts at the Telephone Museum - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
1998
- Circular Frequency - School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
1997
- 2nd Latin American Talk in Aesthetics - State University of Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
STATEMENT
Altered states of Mind – Altered states of Systems. The confluence of electronics, deep psychology and visual arts come together to establish a basis for my work. It is rooted on the outcomes of the organized trance that resulted in the experiments of the neoconcrete. It takes the interference in the black box paradigm into practice, subverting the subservient role of the user of technological systems. It uses whatever medium and technique that offers a channel to express the explorations into the collective, transpersonal and personal unconscious. In my work the viewer has no opportunity to become passive. The invitation to a travel through consciousness formative mechanisms can be sometimes rough as in audio visual pulsations of randomness. It can be poignant in demonstrations of facts that remind us of the useless locality. It can be literarily subtle or subtly literal. Technological apparatus are devoid from their ability to output only the preprogrammed set of possibilities inherent to their nature. Interference is therefore needed in order to create perturbation fields rather than another self-servant dictator of its own. No technological demonstrations are welcome. Traditional materials are dirtily married to unsuspected technological ones. The results can be seen in video art pieces, installations, public art projects and mixed media paintings.
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