MarÃa Cañas Reyes
www.animalario.tv
http://www.hamacaonline.net/autor.php?id=55
http://es.youtube.com/user/animalariotv
participant in
VAD – Video Art Database
VideoChannel Cologne – Found Footage!
MarÃa Cañas (Seville, 1972), graduated in Fine Art. She completed a Doctorate in Aesthetics and the History of Philosophy at the University of Seville. She runs www.animalario.tv, an audiovisual experimentation platform in diverse fields: video-art, video-clips, installations, digital imagery, workshops, publications, seminars, round tables, televisions, on-line projects…
Her work has won numerous prizes. In 2007 The Ibn Batuta FIAV Prize-France, the Memorimage Videocreación prize-Reus and the Roman Gubern prize for Assaig Cinema.
In 2006 the Prize for Art Practice Iniciarte from the Junta de AndalucÃa .
In 2005 the prize RTVA-Zemos98, the Barcelona VisualSound and the Jury Prize Intervenciones.tv 6, Fundación RodrÃguez.
She was shortlisted for the prizes Imagen Transmediale 03-BerlÃn; Injuve00-01-Madrid; EurovÃdeo 01-Málaga; Certamen de jóvenes creadores Madrid´s townhall and Festival Alacant/VÃdeo.
Her experimental cinema has also been shown at international festivals and events, including the Festival LOOP’08-07-09, BAC’06-Barcelona, Les Rencontres Internationales 07-08 ParÃs-BerlÃn-Madrid, Transmediale 03-BerlÃn. Cinema/Image-Festival de Locarno, Malba-Buenos Aires, Saint Pancras Crypt Gallery-Londres, Festival Internacional de Cine de Cali-Colombia, Centro Cultural de España en Montevideo, Souvenirs From Herat-Colonia, Annecy Spanish Cinema Bienal, Oberhausen Short Film Festival-Alemania, VISION:A: LOOP-Cervantes Institute, DUOLUM Museum of Modern Art of Shanghai, Iniciarte- Tokio Cervantes Institute, FIFVC Beirut, WISPS IX Conference DublÃn Cervantes Institute, D-Generación: Cervantes Institute, EX DOCS-XI Latinoamerican Cinema-Lima, Art Futura, VAD-Girona, Portland Underground Film Festival-Oregón, MUSA and Muca-Roma and Pepena Fest- México, ARCO, Muestra de Arte 2000 and Audiovisual Injuve 2000-01-Madrid and Iberoamérica, Canal Metro-Madrid Abierto, Medialab Panorama Digital 03-Madrid, C.A.A.C, Espacio Iniciarte, caS-Sevilla, Maribor Internacional Computer Arts Festival-Eslovenia, Wro Center For Media Art-Polonia, Teknemedia-TurÃn, ISEA-Nagoya…
Her work has been exhibited at galleries such as Juana de Aizpuru, Birimbao, Félix Gómez, La Caja China, Carmen Carmona, Murnau and Sala de eStar-Seville, Fernando Serrano-Huelva, MECA-AlmerÃa, Carmen de la Calle-Madrid, GalerÃa44, ADN and Llucià Homs-Barcelona, Demolden-Santander, Dean Project-N.Y y Esca -Francia.