Alex Páchon

Alex Pachón (Badajoz, 1981) combines creative, research and teaching projects with field of visual effects and animation, as a digital artist and art director for films, scenic and hybrid projects. As a creator, he has already presented his work in 45 countries and more than 200 festivals. His latest projects reflect a strong interest in exploring the body-camera-territory relationship and the possibilities offered by the union between cinematic experimentation, sound creation, new media and the living arts. It was presented in reference spaces such as Cultura Inquieta, Metropolis on TVE2, or Canal+ Xtra, selected in the American Dance Video Anthology and invited to the Biennial of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan. He has lived and worked in Barcelona, ​​Madrid, Portugal, Brazil and the United Kingdom collaborating with companies and institutions such as Artfutura, Tigrelab, La Fura dels Baus, London Olympic Games, Munich Opera, Milan Expo or Teatro de la Abadia. As a researcher and professor, he is part of the teaching team at ExtremLab, an itinerant program and Creative Residence for expanded film projects under development, in collaboration with Festival L'Alternativa, CCCB (Centro de Cultura Contemporânea de Barcelona) and NovenaNube; he is visiting professor of Dance and Technology at Dantzerti (Superior School of Dramatic Art and Euskadi Dance), at the Master in Audiovisual Creation and Performing Arts at UMA (University of Malaga), and the Degree in Dance at UCAM, Murcia. Since 2017, he has co-directed FIVER, a support, training, archive and dissemination platform for choreo-cinema, being responsible for educational programs through the #Fiverlabs project. President and founding member of Social Fever, an organization born during the pandemic that supports educational, cultural and co-creation actions with a social and transformative dimension in peripheral contexts.