Jessica Farran y Paula Perissinotto

Iván Marino (Rosario, Argentina, 1968) is a multimedia artist and documentary maker. He e was visiting Scholar and artist-in-residence at the University of California (UCLA), the HDK ( Hochschule der Künste , Berlin ) and at MECAD/ESDI ( Barcelona ). He currently lives and works in Barcelona, where he is professor of Electronic Art and Digital Design at the Escuela Superior de Diseño ESDI, at the Mecad\Media Centro de Arte y Diseño, as well as in other of the city's institutions. His works are found in the most important media art archives (ZKM, EMAF, Videobrasil…) and have won awards and acclaim in the main European and American electronic art festivals. (Interview realized on the occasion of the symposium Art & Media, Primer Encuentro Iberoamericano de Nuevas Tendencias en Arte y Tecnología, Barcelona, June 2-4, 2005.)

JESSICA FARRAN/PAULA PERISSINOTTO: Your most recent work is issued in two complementary formats: linear video and interactive pieces. How would you define the interrelation between the two languages, linear and interactive?

IVÁN MARINO: Linearity and interaction are words that have, at the very least, a double sense within the area of audio-visual production. The terms can be defined in relation to the particular media or the language the work uses to articulate its discourse. From the perspective of the medium, non-linear pieces are defined as those works that allow a non-linear reading or navigation of its contents, generally by way of an interactive interface, such as the remote control of a DVD, a computer mouse, etc.