Playmodes is an audiovisual craft workshop.
Led since 2006 by Eloi Maduell and Santi Vilanova, it is a space for the confluence of art and science, philosophy, music, and technological research.
Their work often takes on impossible formats: light sculptures, kinetic instruments, projections onto the stars, or scenography for theater. Transversal to all these formats is the driving force behind their projects: the construction of an impure, minimalist, and abstract language of Visual Music. Handmade. Using only the tools they develop themselves. Thought transmuted into open source code and solder.
Over these nearly 20 years, their works have been exhibited on all continents: from Shanghai to New York; from Sydney to Amsterdam; from Barcelona to Medellín. They have won international awards in the fields of art and design, and a number of institutions and collectors worldwide treasure their pieces.
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Eloi Maduell / Computer Engineer by training and audiovisual creative by passion, he has been experimenting and developing projects around creativity and new audiovisual technologies for 20 years. Inspired by human perception, creative programming, mathematics, physics and abstraction.
Santi Vilanova / A graduate in graphic design and passionate about sound art, Santi Vilanova has managed to combine these two disciplines through the catalyst of "creative technologies", of which he is a self-taught developer. (De) formed in the rave scene of the early 2000s, his work has evolved to integrate this influence into new territories. His recent research combines digital algorithms and sonification engines with classical staves and acoustic ensembles, focusing on the idea of a visual music.
