Derivart

Derivart is an interdisciplinary art group located in Barcelona. It is constituted by Jesús Rodríguez (fine artist and independent curator), Mar Canet Sola (a creative engineer) and Daniel Beunza (a sociologist of finance). The collective is active since 2004, during this time they did several art projects and one curatorship project in 2006 call "Derivaties, new financial visions". The official website is: http://derivart.net

In 2006 they did a very relevant curatorship project called "New financial visions" hosted at Casa Encendida (Madrid) as part of Curatorship award Ineditos by Spanish Bank "Caja Madrid" (now called Bankia).

Some more relevant projects are:

• Burbujometro(2007):
• Hipotecadora(2007)
• The Mortgager(2007)
• Casastristes.org (2007):
• Spreadplayer(2008)
• The inspector(2009)
• The manager(2009)

References

Articles

• "The Speculative Performance Art’s Financial Futures". A article from Brian Holmes publish in Transversal: extradisciplinaire at 2007 discussing various artistic practices been inspired by finances. Tranversal.
• "Inspector detecta en Pirate Bay qué archivos están protegidos por la SGAEs". El pais.
• "Los mercados bursátiles ponen a prueba los recursos de los artistas electrónicos". El pais.

Exhibitions

• "HOMO LUDENS LUDENS". Media Art exhibition about games. Art center La Laboral.(Catalogue of exhibition http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/UserFiles/File/CATALOGOS/HLL_cat_final.pdf)
• "Wealth of Nations". Media Art exhibition part Cinemacity. CinemaCity Novisad 2009.
• "Financial crisis". Media Space at Stuttgarter Filmwinter. Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2009.