Juan Dies (Zaragoza, 1963) My artistic practice focuses on moving image, digital art, and animation, with an emphasis on the ethics of attention in public space.
In 2017, during my residency at BARTR (Budapest), I began my transition toward video where I initiated The Sensual Woman, a research project on visual fragmentation and the ways in which images shape our everyday perception.
After training at the III Media Façade Academy at Etopia, I created The Oola Manifesto and, in 2019, presented Allegro Bárbaro, a 180° audiovisual installation accompanied by large‑format graphic work that consolidated my interest in transforming everyday symbols into immersive experiences.
With a Master’s in Motion Design (Barcelona, 2021) and international residencies in New York (Mothership) and Lisbon (Prisma), I have refined a technical language that weaves generative systems and scenography with digital art and animation for cultural contexts and public space.
Intervals of calm within the urban flow. I try to move away from advertising logics in order to propose an “aesthetics of kindness”: vivid colours softened through slow organic movements, designed to induce states of expanded attention.
I understand the screen as an urban skin in constant mutation.
Through the Japanese concept of Ma —the interval, the pause— works such as Cymkoola or Precipitatto function as visual caresses, parentheses of calm that reveal invisible rhythms of the city’s ecosystem. My current exploration expands this idea through small generative sequences conceived as stimulating pills that enhance a meditative state.
I focus on the relationship between architecture, movement and light, developing generative systems that function as refuges for contemplation within contemporary noise.
I work with the idea that the image, when it connects with the viewer, can modulate one’s mood and transform the way of being in the environment, inviting a more receptive form of presence.