martin calvino
artist - scientist
focused on
abstract painting, textiles,
the intersection of
media arts with
genomics, machine learning
and tango culture
Martin Calvino is a multimedia artist and scientist whose work encompasses textiles, abstract painting, and the integration of media arts with genomics, machine learning and tango culture. He was an artist-in-residence at the 'Art and Artificial Intelligence Lab' at the Computer Science Department of Rutgers University; and a Senior Research Assistant at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. He previously attended the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He holds degrees in Plant Molecular Genetics from Rutgers University (PhD) and Tsukuba University (MS), and in Molecular Biology from the University of the Republic of Uruguay (BS). Martin conducted studies under the sponsorship of prestigious fellowships such as Fulbright (USA) and Monbukagakusho (Japan). His artworks has been featured in CLOT magazine, NOEMA magazine, INTERALIA magazine, LEONARDO Journal, ART UNCOVERED, Proyecto ROTATORIA, MoTiF Film Festival, The Lift-Off Sessions Online Film Festival, FILE (Electronic Language International Festival), CICA Museum, Videokanava’s FEM4 Contemporary Art Exhibition and World of Tango Festival. In November of 2018, Martin released under Bandurria Records ‘looping_thoughts’, his first album of electronic music with tango remix that contained tango lyrics created with machine learning. His album was featured in 'Nación Eléctrica’, a Webzine from Chile dedicated to promote electronic music. Martin’s curatorial work includes the intersection of Uruguayan culture with new media arts at the Consulate General of Uruguay in New York; TechnoArte Latino at Princeton Public Library in Princeton, New Jersey with co-sponsorship from the Art Museum of Princeton University; and Videokanava Art Organization in Tampere, Finland.
EDUCATION
New York University, New York City, NY
Attended Master of Professional Studies (MPS), Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
Tisch School of the Arts
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), October 2014
Waksman Institute of Microbiology
Graduate Program in Plant Biology & Pathology
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Completed 4 credits on Certificate in Science and Technology Management
Master of Business and Science, 2011
Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
Master of Biosystems Studies (MS), March 2006
University of the Republic of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay
Bachelor of Biological Sciences (BS), November 2002
HONORS
Tisch School of the Arts Scholarship, New York University, 2017-2018
Eileen Brennan Graduate Research Award, Rutgers University, 2012
Graduate Research Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2006-2013
BARSA Scholarship Award, Institute of International Education, 2006
Fulbright Fellowship, Fulbright Commission of Uruguay, 2006-2007
Monbukagakusho Graduate Fellowship, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, 2003-2006
EXHIBITIONS
AnkhLave Garden Project, AnkhLave Arts Alliance & The Queens Botanical Garden, New York City, May - September 2021
The Newark Museum of Art, Revision & Respond Exhibition, Newark, New Jersey, June - August 2021
Videokanava Online Gallery, Coevolutionism: the emergence of a new subgenre of abstract art, Tampere, Finland, July - August 2020 (Solo Exhibition)
Fring Arts Bath, Automated Exhibition, Bath, England, May - June 2020
Videokanava FEM4 Contemporary Art Exhibition, VBKO, Vienna, Austria, October 2020
Videokanava FEM4 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Neon Kunst Gallery, Berlin, Germany, July 2020
Fring Arts Bath, Digital Footprint Exhibition, Bath, England, May - June 2020 (Suspended > Covid-19 Pandemic)
Videokanava Online Gallery, Tampere, Finland, January - June 2020
plusCODE 2019 Festival de Cultura Digital, and Proyecto Rotatoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2019
CICA Museum, South Korea, November - December 2019
Videokanava FEM4 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tampere, Finland, September 2019
World of Tango Festival, Tampere, Finland, September 2019
FILE - Electronic Language International Festival - Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 2019
Proyecto Rotatoria, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March - April 2019
The Lift-Off Sessions Online Film Festival, Streamed on Vimeo On Demand, February 2019
Proyecto Rotatoria, CineClub Municipal Hugo Del Carril, Cordoba, Argentina, December 2018
MoTiF Film Festival, Alaska, United States, August 2018
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Subordinated Reality, Videokanava, Tampere, Finland, March - December 2020
TechnoArte Latino, Princeton Public Library & The Art Museum of Princeton University, May 2019
Uruguayan Culture Through the Lens of New Media Arts, Consulate General of Uruguay in New York, October 2018
RESIDENCIES
Art & Artificial Intelligence Lab, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, January - July 2019
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, January - September 2018
Center for the Arts and Sciences GEN, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2016
Institute of Agricultural Science (INIA), Montevideo, Uruguay, 2016
Laboratory for Computerized Languages, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of the Republic of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2016
PERFORMANCES
Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, February 2019
Consulate General of Uruguay in New York, NYC, October 2018
1 + 1 = 3, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University, February 2018
TALKS
Coevolution of human-machine creativity, AI Theory & Creativity, Digital Future Talks Series, February 2021
Art of genomics / Genomics of art, Lab Meeting - Dr. Christopher Ellison's Research Group, Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, December 2020
TechnoArte Latino, Princeton Public Library, Princeton, NJ, May 2019
New Media Caucus, College Arts Association Conference, New York City, February 2019
Consulate General of Uruguay in New York, New York City, October 2018
Music and Audio Research Laboratory, NYU-Steinhardt, New York City, September 2018
International Seminar on Hypertext's Narratives, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of the Republic of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay, August 2016
Virtual Symposium on Information & Technology in the Arts & Humanities, Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), and Special
Interest group for Arts and Humanities (SIGAH), January 2016
MEDIA APPEARANCES
hipermedula.org, April 2021
http://hipermedula.org/2021/04/artista-uruguayo-tapa-de-leonardo-publicacion-del-mit/
Fulbright Uruguay, April 2021
Patch.com/new-jersey/, March 2021
Intangiblia Podcast, December 2020
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1284056/6627190
El Observador, April (online) - May (printed) 2020
Videokanava Website, April 2020
http://www.videokanava.com/news.html
Nación Eléctrica, April 2019
http://www.nacionelectrica.cl/musica/2019/04/24/machine-learning/
Interalia Magazine, September 2018
CLOT Magazine, July 2018
https://www.clotmag.com/scout-trends/martin-calvino-conveying-scientific-knowledge-in-artistic-form
Art Uncovered, January 2018
http://www.btrtoday.com/listen/artuncovered/martin-calvino/
ALBUM RELEASE
looping_thoughts, Bandurria Records, November 2018
ACADEMIC REVIEWER
Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, 2019
Adjacent, ITP, 2017
PLOS One, Journal of Experimental Botany, Gene, Genome, Journal of Plant Physiology, 2011 - 2016
PUBLICATIONS (peer-reviewed)
*Calvino, M. 2021. Internet memes for political dissent - Culture Jamming of a country's brand. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (Submitted)
*Calvino, M. 2020. Coevolution of human-machine creativity: incorporating the visual output of artificial intelligence into traditional art making. NOEMA
*Calvino, M. 2019. Procedurally generated artworks based on multiple sequence alignment of orthologous gene copies. Leonardo Journal
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/leon_a_01787
*Calvino, M. 2019. Computational art inspired on genome browsers. Leonardo Journal
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/leon_a_01788
*Calvino, M. 2019. Post-polyploidy subgenome evolution of glitch art. NOEMA
https://noemalab.eu/ideas/post-polyploidy-subgenome-evolution-of-glitch-art/
*Calvino, M. 2019. A framework for the integration of art & science. NOEMA
https://noemalab.eu/ideas/a-framework-for-the-integration-of-art-science/
*Calvino, M., Messing, J. 2013. Discovery of microRNA169 gene copies in genomes of flowering plants through positional information.
Genome Biology & Evolution 5(2): 402-417
*Calvino, M., Messing, J. 2012. Sweet sorghum as a model system for bioenergy crops. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 23(3): 323-329
*Calvino, M., Bruggmann, R., Messing, J. 2011. Characterization of the small RNA component of the transcriptome from grain and sweet sorghum stems. BMC Genomics 12: 356
*Miyata, K., Calvino, M., Oda, A., Sugiyama, H., Mizoguchi, T. 2011. Suppression of late-flowering and semi-dwarf phenotypes in the Arabidopsis clock mutant lhy-12;cca1-101 by phyB under continuous light. Plant Signaling & Behavior 6(8): 1162-1171
*Lam, E., Shine, J., Da Silva, J., Lawton, M., Bonos, S., Calvino, M., Carrer, H., Silva-Filho, MC., Glynn, N., Helsel, Z., Ma, J., Edward, R., Mendes Souza, G.,
Ming, R. 2009. Improving sugarcane for biofuel: engineering for an even better feedstock. GCB Bioenergy 1: 251-255
*Calvino, M., Miclaus, M., Bruggmann, R., Messing, J. 2009. Molecular markers for sweet sorghum based on microarray expression data.
RICE 2(2-3): 129-142
*Calvino, M., Bruggmann, R., Messing, J. 2008. Screen of genes linked to high-sugar content in stems by comparative genomics. RICE 1(2): 166-176
*Kanae, N., Nakagawa, M., Calvino, M., Mizoguchi, T. 2007. Dance of plants with circadian clock. Plant Biotechnology 24(1): 87-97
*Calvino, M., Kamada, H., Mizoguchi, T. 2005. Is the role of the short- day solely to switch off the CONSTANS in Arabidopsis?
Plant Biotechnology 22(3): 179-183
*Goni, B., Fresia, P., Calvino, M., Ferreiro, M. J., Valente, V. L. and da Silva L.B. 2001. First record of Zaprionus indianus Gupta 1970 (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in southern localities of Uruguay. Drosophila Information Service 84: 61–65
COLLABORATIONS
MSW, LCSW, LCADC. Jusleine Daniel, Institute for Practical Life Psychotherapy, Highland Park, New Jersey, November 2020 - Present
Matthew Mann, Computer Science Department, University of Regina, Canada, April - May 2020
Dr. Chunguang Du, Professor, Department of Biology, Montclair State University, April 2019
Dr. Antoni Chan, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, July - August 2018
Dr. Michael Purugganan, Professor, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University; and
Dr. Andrea Gallavotti, Assistant Professor, Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University, March 2018
Adriana Salgado & Orlando Reyes, Professional Tango Dancers, New York City, December 2017
Glenn Manko, Director of Talent Acquisition, LinkedIn, New York City, February 2016
WEBLINKS
https://www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/automated
http://hipermedula.org/2019/12/code-festival-de-cultura-digital/
https://cicamuseum.com/squares-2019/
http://www.maailmantango.net/en/
https://file.org.br/highlight/file-sao-paulo-2019/?lang=pt
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/sessionsfebprogramme1/315975009?autoplay=1
http://www.proyectorotatoria.org
https://www.cordoba.gob.ar/2018/12/04/
https://www.motiffy.com/programmotiffilmfestival2018
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
MateAmargo Tango, Jusleine Expressions LLC, Highland Park, NJ, 2011 - 2012
TEACHING
Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, February 2019
ORT University, 2016
Technical University of Uruguay (UTU), Montevideo and Canelones, Uruguay, 2002
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Digital edition, acrylic on cardboard painting, Philadelphia, PA, April 2019
Digital edition, algorithmic artwork, Philadelphia, PA, April 2018
Digital artwork, Philadelphia, PA, February 2016