About

//benitez_vogl develop work within a hybrid art praxis. They question contemporary issues concerning technology, such as exploring the mediation of information in our lives. Their works integrate installations, high tech/low tech materials from fiber, sound and art + technology practices. They have been collaborating since 2000 on interactive installations and sound works.

BIOGRAPHIES:

Margarita Benitez has an interdisciplinary background mixes art and technology, interface design, tangible computing, 3D, architecture and fiber and material studies. She is always looking at new technology, whether software or hardware, to learn, explore and subvert. Margarita’s passion lies in interactivity and interaction design with an emphasis on interactivity in textiles and fashion. Her work explores the role of technology in contemporary fashion and art .
Margarita’s recent research involves working on OSLOOM, an open-source thread controlled loom driven by microcontrollers. She holds a M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and is currently the Fashion Technologist and Assistant Professor at Kent State University.

Markus Vogl is a NE Ohio based multimedia artist experimenting in multiple sensory experiences combining sound, environments and interactive installation. He has exhibited internationally in the U.S. and Europe and has been recognized in Leonardo magazine for his collaboration Circadian Capital. Markus is also a designer servicing clients like mun2 or mtv latino in his former Miami, FL business pixel foundry. He holds a Masters of Fine Art degree in New Media from Donau Universitaet Krems/transart institue. He currently is an Assistant Professor at the Myers School of Art at the University of Akron.