Author Archives: Mauricio Baez

Mauricio Báez is a Ph.D. candidate at Universidad Javeriana. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Master's in Epistemology of Social and Natural Sciences. In addition, he has worked on the production of various audiovisual projects.
It is a three-dimensional network generated in TouchDesigner, where connecting the software to sound signals allows the image to react in real time, transforming its structure and movement according to variations in the audio.

What Would Happen if Ethnographers Learned to Process Signals?

During my doctoral research, focused on neuroscience laboratories and their forms of engagement with other spaces in the city of Bogotá, Colombia, I have been observing how artists and researchers use different processes to modulate, transform, and process biological signals in order to create artistic works. This experience led me to try to learn how to use the same software they employ. I created a small piece that I would like to show, along with a brief presentation of some of the reflections that emerged from it. (read more...)

It is an image of a text, part of my doctoral proposal, with a rotoscoped drawing of a walking person on top.

Feeling Adrift in the Ethnography of a Laboratory

This semester, I officially began my fieldwork for my doctoral dissertation in the city of Bogotá. As part of an ethnography, I will be wandering through different neuroscience laboratories in Colombia, observing some of their studies as well as certain outreach activities they prepare. My questions aim to understand the academic and non-academic ties that enable the consolidation of research networks, and how these networks are also articulated with other spaces. (read more...)