martin calvino
artist - scientist
Martin Calvino is an American - Uruguayan multimedia artist and scientist. He is currently working on 31 South, a data science art project that investigates the role of financial institutions in the fate of home loan applications from the latine community in New Jersey. His work sheds light on the use of open data to empower latine citizens' understanding of the home mortgage process and the attainment of homeownership.
He works across mediums, emphasizing weaved textiles, abstract paintings, and the integration of media arts with genomics, machine learning and tango culture. Martin's work have been exhibited at the Newark Museum of Art, CICA Museum, FILE, and the Morris Arts & Dodge Foundation among others. His written essays have been published extensibly in peer-reviewed journals and magazines including Leonardo Journal, Genome Biology & Evolution, CLOT and NOEMA magazines. 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); conducting his studies under the sponsorship of prestigious fellowships such as Fulbright (USA) and Monbukagakusho (Japan). 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.
Martin currently works as Postdoctoral Associate at the Human Genetics Institute of New Jersey - Rutgers University, and is supported by a research fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
APPOINTMENTS
Creative Director- Insitute for Practical Life Psychotherapy
Highland Park, New Jersey
January 2019 to Present
Postdoctoral Research Associate- The Human Genetics Institute of New Jersey
Ellison Lab - Department of Genetics, Rutgers University
August 2021 to Present
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
Piano Classes: Pablo Estigarribia's online private lessons
Buenos Aires, Argentina - New York City, United States
March 2021 - Present
StartSmart Your Business 4th Edition, SCORE Princeton Chapter, 2011
Princeton, New Jersey
HONORS
Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Institutes of Health (NIH) / NIGMS Diversity Supplement, August 2021 - 2023
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
31 South, Walsh Gallery - Seton Hall University, Curated by Jeanne Brasile, Sep 12 to December 9, 2022 (solo exhibition)
17th Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology, Ammerman Center - Connecticut College, November 10-12, 2022
Experimental Films Online, Digital Cloth audiovisual work, March 27, 2022
Shifting Ground, Morris Arts & Dodge Foundation, Morristown - New Jersey, March - August 2022
MOCA Lights Video Screening & Projection, Patchogue Arts Council, Patchogue, NY, October 2021
Pandemic Projections - hosted by Art Wavelength - Kearny, New Jersey, August 28, 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
Exhibition Committee Chair - Future Bodies (New Media Caucus Symposium & Exhibition), Virginia Tech, Sep 30 - October 2, 2022
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
Piano Online Concert, Pablo Estigarribia's Student Concert Series, May 22, 2021
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
Data Science for Social Justice, invited talk - Walsh Gallery - Seton Hall University, October 5, 2022
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in R: (h)ou->(R) Meeting, Rutgers University, November 15, 2021
Clustering Analysis in R: K Means Clustering, (h)ou->(R) Meeting, Rutgers University, October 4, 2021
Clustering Analysis in R: Hierarchical Clustering, (h)ou->(R) Meeting, Rutgers University, September 27, 2021
Factors in R: dataset analysis on lending practices towards latinos from 911 banks in NJ, (h)ou->(R) Meeting, Rutgers University, September 13, 2021
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
Seminar on Digital Art, Technical School of Uruguay (UTU), Santa Lucia - Canelones, Uruguay 2016
Seminar on Entrepreneurship, iJOBS Program - Rutgers University & Commercialization Center for Innovative Technologies (CCIT), North Brunswick 2015
Gordon Research Conference in Plant Molecular Biology, New Hampshire 2012
Latin American Congress of Genetics, Rosario - Argentina 2012
National Institute of Agricultural Sciences (INIA), Colonia - Uruguay 2011
Sugarcane Engineering Workshop, Rutgers University - New Brunswick, New Jersey 2008
Kasuza DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu - Japan 2008
Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Chronobiology (JSC), Tsukuba - Japan 2005
45th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (JSPP), Tokyo - Japan 2004
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Exhibition Shifting Ground, Best Things New Jersey, March 21, 2022
https://bestthingsnj.com/event/exhibition-shifting-ground-2022-03-21-morristown-nj.html
Exhibition Shifting Ground, AARP, March 12, 2022
https://local.aarp.org/event/exhibition-shifting-ground-2022-05-12-morristown-nj.html
Morris Museum presents "Shifting Ground" exhibit starting March 14, Morris NewsBee, March 10, 2022
https://www.newjerseyhills.com/interlaced-objects/image_4ecc0dd0-fc78-5abc-8830-64deab770b61.html
Celebrate New Times - The Newark Museum of Art Reopens, June 2021
Newark Museum of Art displays works inspired by the pandemic, June 2021
https://www.njspotlight.com/video/newark-museum-of-art-displays-works-inspired-by-the-pandemic/
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/
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/
TV Channel 5, Interviewed by TV Show 'Tiempo de Campo', TELEFE Group, Rosario - Argentina 2012
Radio Colonia AM 550 MHZ, Interviewed by Radio Show 'Entre el Campo y la Ciudad', Colonia - Uruguay 2012
Daily Targum, Rutgers University's Newspaper, New Brunswick - New Jersey 2009
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. 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., 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
PUBLICATIONS (other)
Calvino, M. 2022. Interlaced Objects. Pinky Thinker Press: Issue No. 5
Calvino, M. 2020. Coevolution of human-machine creativity: incorporating the visual output of artificial intelligence into traditional art making. NOEMA
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/
Interalia Magazine, September 2018
COLLABORATIONS
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://patchoguearts.org/moca-l-i-ghts-2021/
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
ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE
Co-Founded MateAmargo Tango, Jusleine Expressions LLC, Highland Park, NJ, 2011 - 2012
Co-Founded 3e Bioenergy LLC, North Brunswick , NJ 2014-2015
TEACHING
Department of Chemistry and Computational Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, April 2022
Department of Chemistry and Computational Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, March 2022
Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, February 2019
ORT University, Montevideo, Uruguay, 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
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Board Member - New Media Caucus (NMC), February 2022 to 2025
Organizing Weekly Meetings for R Programming Language, Rutgers University, September to November 2021
Grant Writer: Youth Entrepreneurship Grant ($20K), Jewish Renaissance Foundation (JRF), Perth Amboy - New Jersey 2016
Donated Sanyo Plant Growth Chamber to GENSPACE: community bio-laboratory, Brooklyn - New York City 2016
Volunteered for Hyphen-Hub @ NYC Creative Tech Week, New York City 2016
Founded Tango Club for graduate students, Rutgers University, New Brunswick - New Jersey 2012
MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENCE & ART SOCIETIES
Genetics Society of America (GSA), November 2021 to Present
New Media Caucus, November 2021 to Present
College Arts Association, November 2021 to Present
International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA International), October 2021 to Present
The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) / Leonardo, 2017 to Present
POSTERS AT CONFERENCES
Calvino, M., Son, JH., Ellison, C (2021). The NXF gene family in Drosophila: evolutionary history and cell-type specific gene expression.
63rd Annual Drosophila Research Conference (Accepted)