daniela brill estrada is an artist, teacher, and researcher from bogotá currently living in vienna. daniela likes physics, sharks, rocks. her artistic research process starts with a small obsession with how life emerges from geological and chemical materials, and how it complexifies, becomes bodies, societies, ecosystems.

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daniela studied transdisciplinary arts and art&science at the university for applied arts vienna and fine arts at the universidad nacional de colombia.

 

daniela is an artist in residence at the SETI institute with the cosmic consciousness program; and artist in residence at the Banerjee lab of biocondensates physics at the university at Buffalo with the COALESCE center for biological arts

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daniela is a phd candidate at the art x science school for transformation at the johannes kepler university, linz, and the university for applied arts, vienna, where she has jumped from studying complex systems in nature, such as carbon-based materials and possible alien life, into critically studying complex social systems, economic systems that mutated in order to survive

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brill estrada works with installations, sculpture, and drawings. sometimes she writes poetry. collaborative work is at the heart of daniela's practice.

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In her artistic work, life, and webpage, daniela embraces chaos

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selected collaborations:

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Exoplanetary Poetry

at the SETI Institute with Julie-Michèle Morin and Bart Kuipers

Cosmic Consciousness Residency

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Trajectories

Residency at IF:LAB: Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival’s platform for thinking about the contemporary world

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cyber body systems

Marginal - Bucharest, Romania
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Begriff des Körpers
artlab Nottingham
University of Nottingham, UK, with Monica C.LoCascio and Ulrike Kuchner

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living, alive, life-like
biocondensates research COALESCE center for biological arts and the Banerjee Lab of condensate biophysics, Buffalo, USA​

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DIGI-Sense - research project directed by Claudia Schnugg at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria 

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the nonessential essential - collaboration at CERN with the CMS and the ATLAS experiment,  with the support of experimental physicist George Mikenberg and the ORIGIN network of astrophysics and high energy physics

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suratómica - network of art and science

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curatorial project:

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They say identity: We say Multitude

Exhibition at Improper Walls gallery

Co-curated with Alejandra Zapata Torres

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