Mikel Arce

Mikel Arce

Born in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain (1959). Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the Basque Country University (UPV/EHU) and currently Professor at the Department of Art and Technology in the UPV. His field of work is Soundart, investigating and experimenting with resources and artistic possibilities of the spatial and dimensional properties of sound. He has exhibited his work in numerous places among which we can mention: the Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (2005), the 32nd Festival of Electroacoustic Music and Electronic Creations of Bourges, France (2005), the first sample of Spanish Sound Art (MASE) in Córdoba, Spain (2006), or Artists As Catalysts, of ARS ELECTRÓNICA in Azkuna Centrum of Bilbao, Spain (2013). In 2004, he won the first international prize in the category of Installations and Sound Environments of the 31st International Contest of Music, Art Sound and Electroacoustics of Bourges (France) for the work *.WAV selected by the Juan March Foundation for the itinerant exhibition during 2016 between its centers of Palma de Mallorca - Cuenca and Madrid, called 'Sonorous Art in Spain (1961-2016)', which aims to show the origins, the diversity of trajectories and the vitality of art sound made in Spain since 1961 to the present day.