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Jaime del Val or JaiVal is a metahumanist polymath: transdisciplinary media artist, philosopher, activist, ontohacker, technologist, uncurator, promotor of the Metabody Project, Forum and Institute, and the non profit organisation Reverso, pianist, composer, visual artist and writer. Since 2000 Jaime develops transdisciplinary projects in the transvergence of arts (dance, performance, architecture, visual and media arts, music), technologies, critical theory and activism. Jaime’s projects propose redefinitions of embodiment, perception and space that challenge contemporary control society as well as normative conceptions of affect, sex, gender, ability or intimacy and have been presented with over 120 performances, metaformances and installations in museums, theatres, festivals, urban and rural areas, refugee camps and numerous unconventional places, in novel experiential formats in over 50 cities of 30 countries, across Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa, mostly under the collectives REVERSO and Metabody.
The evolution of these projects led in 2013 to the Multiannual European Culture project METABODY, coordinated by Jaime with a network of 38 partners from 16 countries. As part of Metabody Jaime has organised over 50 international Forums in 30 countries and coordinated over 60 research projects and imparting over a 100 workshops and courses. The project continues now with the Metabody Forum, a transdisicplinary and nomadic intiative in the crossroads of reseach, creation, education, networking, uncuratorship and activism that takes place every year in at least 8 countries and which consists in three main aspects including the Multiversity, the Ontohacklab and the Metatopia environments. Jaime’s philosophical work has been published in over 50 essays in journals such as Performance Research, World Futures, Leonardo and others, and three books are being prepared for publication where Jaime develops a Radical Movement Philosophy and a theory of the Algoricene or Age of Algorithms. Jaime has edited the Journals Reverso and Metabody, is member of the organizing committee of the Beyond Humanism Conference serie and cofounder of Metahumanism, a critical posthumanist philosophy, is advisor on the onto-ethical challenges of Autonomous Algorithms. S/he has given over 120 lectures and has had forums dedicated to hir projects in Universities like U.C Berkeley, Stanford, MIT Medialab, Duke University, Yale, Cambridge, Goldsmiths London, UNAM Mexico, EWHA Seoul, and others all over the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Jaime has developed novel movement techniques with varying applications, included therapeutic, and dynamic architecture and design techniques. As pianist and composer Jaime has recorded 13 CDs and over 300 works. Jaime has also exhibited painting, etching, photography and video work since 1998. As activist Jaime has promoted and been involved since 1998 in numerous environmental, lgtb-queer, Occupy and antisurveillance movements leading several national scale organizations, particularly in the fight against land speculation in Spain, advising and reporting for the European Parliament and United Nations amongst others. In 2008 Jaime was chosen by El Pais as one of the 100 Iberoamericans of the year, described as: “one of the most outstanding examples of an artist concerned with all art forms and with the problems of his time… a clear example of how it’s possible to change the world through art”. He currently promotes a new centre in the rural area. Jaime is neurodiverse and mestiza, trans-species and microsexual, is neither man, nor woman nor human, and is not in Facebook.
Core activities in 2020
- Metabody Forum 2020
- dozens of online events
- physical events, including Metabody Toulouse 2020
- physical immersive experiences
- online talks, workshops and coaching
- online performances
- new Metabody productions:
- Alien Embrace (2020)
- Alien intimacy (2020)
- Publications
- Becomings Project
- New spaces
- centre and other (more info soon)
- Activism
- a multitude of ongoing processes in courts and other (more info soon)
Current Art-technology Projects
- Alien Embrace (2020) – reinventing social distance
- Alien intimacy (2020) – reinventing social distance
- METATOPIA 5.0 – METAKHORÓS/METAKHÔRA (2014 to present)
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- Metasculptures – Flexinamics – performative and wearable flexinamic architectures
- Metakinesphere (2014)
- Metadress (2015)
- Metagaming Metatopias – intra-active installations
- Barraca of the 21st Century – rural tours (hommage to Lorca’s nomad theatre of La Barraca)
- Khorós – Disalignments – Metabody choral urban interventions
- Performances – metaformative interventions
- Metaformances – Metagenesis – experiential immersive processes
- Microsensory environments – therapy – permanent sitespecific intra-active environments
- Core transversal ongoing projects and techniques:
- Microsexes – sensory modification techniques – (2007 to present)
- Amorphogenesis – metagaming and digital architecture and intra-action techniques – (2003 to present)
- Disalignments – Movement techniques – (approx. 2010 to present)
- Flexinamics – Building techniques – (2014 to present)
- Becomings – new visual arts, music and literature project (2018 to present)
Current Research Projects
- Algoricene – The age of the Algorithms (2014- to present)
- The Posthuman in Translation (2019-2022) in China
- Illegible Affects (2014-15)
Other Creation-Research-Action Projects
- European Tele-Plateaus (2008-2010)
- See REVERSO archive
- Frontier Bodies (2001-2013)
- Microsexes – older website (2007 – 2011)
- Disolution of the multiple body
- Thresholds (2004)
- Morphogenesis (2003)
Philosophy
- Writings, conferences, publications
- Editorial Projects:
Consultancy:
Management, networking and curatorship:
European Projects, Curatorship, Production, Workshops:
- Spaces
- Reverso-Metabody Centre – new space (2018 to present)
- METABODY – Mutiannual EU Cuture Project and International Network (2013 to present) – Coordinator
- International Metabody Forum – Forum 2020 – over 50 forums worldwide since 2013
- Multiversity – Conferences
- Ontohacklab – Workshops
- Metatopias – Nomadic Creation and Performance/Metaformance Platform
- European TelePlateaus – European Culture Project (2008-2010) – Coorganizer
- Common Body group in Medialab Prado (2008-2014)
- Devisualize workshop (2011)
- International Workshop of the Technologies of the Body (2003-2008)
Musical projects
- Becoming music – NEW PROJECT 2020
- Nine Centuries of Song – 12Cds and 300 works
Activism
- Acitivst since around 1997 in
- environmental,
- lgtttbiq+,
- Occupy-15M
- antisurveillance,
- refugees,
- disabilities/neurodiversity,
- animal affects
- and other issues.
Other:
- dozens of online events
- physical events, including Metabody Toulouse 2020
- physical immersive experiences
- online talks, workshops and coaching
- online performances
- new Metabody productions:
- Alien Embrace (2020)
- Alien intimacy (2020)
- centre and other (more info soon)
- a multitude of ongoing processes in courts and other (more info soon)
- Alien intimacy (2020) – reinventing social distance
- Metasculptures – Flexinamics – performative and wearable flexinamic architectures
- Metakinesphere (2014)
- Metadress (2015)
- Metagaming Metatopias – intra-active installations
- Barraca of the 21st Century – rural tours (hommage to Lorca’s nomad theatre of La Barraca)
- Khorós – Disalignments – Metabody choral urban interventions
- Performances – metaformative interventions
- Metaformances – Metagenesis – experiential immersive processes
- Microsensory environments – therapy – permanent sitespecific intra-active environments
- Microsexes – sensory modification techniques – (2007 to present)
- Amorphogenesis – metagaming and digital architecture and intra-action techniques – (2003 to present)
- Disalignments – Movement techniques – (approx. 2010 to present)
- Flexinamics – Building techniques – (2014 to present)
- Frontier Bodies (2001-2013)
- Microsexes – older website (2007 – 2011)
- Disolution of the multiple body
- Thresholds (2004)
- Morphogenesis (2003)
- Reverso-Metabody Centre – new space (2018 to present)
- International Metabody Forum – Forum 2020 – over 50 forums worldwide since 2013
- Multiversity – Conferences
- Ontohacklab – Workshops
- Metatopias – Nomadic Creation and Performance/Metaformance Platform
- Devisualize workshop (2011)
- environmental,
- lgtttbiq+,
- Occupy-15M
- antisurveillance,
- refugees,
- disabilities/neurodiversity,
- animal affects
- and other issues.
Visual arts
- Becomings
- (early) Painting and etching
- (early) Photography
- (early) Video/film
- (early) Digital architecture and abstract film
Therapy
- Ontotherapy – Cartesiholic anonymous
- Metabody Techniques
- Online Coaching
- Microsensory environments – Therapy
- Metatherapies – Neuroplastic Environments and Neurodiverse Futures – Research
Movement techniques
- Disalignments – Movement techniques
Building and design techniques
- Flexinamics – Building techniques