Marlon Barrios Solano
Software Engineering Creative Coding Art + Technology Generative AI
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Marlon Barrios Solano is a Venezuelan-American creative technologist and researcher with a background in software development, improvisational dance, and embodied awareness. He has over 20 years of experience working with digital and networked systems and has been a web developer since 2020. He has performed in dance productions and installations with interactive multimedia systems from 2003 to 2010 and was a research associate at the Inter-University of Dance/University of The Arts in Berlin from 2013 to 2016. Marlon has published video interviews and essays on the intersection of arts, and technology and has been a pioneer in developing online projects for knowledge transmission. He has consulted, taught, and developed international online projects in various countries and has collaborated with choreographers and musicians in NYC. He is a meditation teacher and movement instructor at Kernel, a web3 educational community. He holds an MFA in Dance and Digital Technology from The Ohio State University and has graduated from The General Assembly Software Engineering Immersive Program. He is certified in Vipassana/Mindfulness Meditation, Embodyoga, and the Somatic Experiencing Certification Program. He is fascinated by the power of generative AI for knowledge-media production and is experimenting combining AI with Web3. He believes in the beneficial power of dharma communities and has worked as a retreat chef for Insight Meditation Society(MA) and currently, for WonderWell Mountain Refuge in New Hampshire where he lives.
Skills
Full-stack Web Development
React js, React Native, Next.js, GraphQL, HTML, CSS, Java Script, NodeJS, Express, DOM, MongoDB, Mongoose, Python, Django,Git, Netlify, Heroku, Moralis. Creative Development
CanvasHTML, P5.js, Three,js, MaxMSPJitter, JS for IOT, ML5.js Online production
Management of online video platforms such Zoom and its API, OBS Studio, portable and studio streaming; video streaming production and coordination. Community development, facilitation and team-building DAO development, Design Thinking, Open Space technology Embodied Awareness and practice oriented pedagogies.Online Collaboration and knowledge-co-creation. Mindfulness Meditation.
Languages
English and Spanish
Projects Collections
https://faux-ai.netlify.app/
https://art-ai-fact.io/
Full Stack Development
Creative Development
Mobile Development
Machine Learning
Vanilla JS
Web3/Web2 Networks
Education
Software Engineering Immersive at General Assembly Fall 2021 Master in Dance and New media The Ohio State University 2004 Embodyoga 200 Hours Teacher Certification, 2019
Vipassana Meditation Teacher Spirit Rock Meditation Center. 2017
Awards
Kernel Block5 International Fellowship
2022 (WEB3)
Hombroich Fellowship 2018
(Germany)
Experience
Independent creative development
January 2022 - present
General Assembly Fellow
September - December 2021
Full-time, 3-month software engineering
immersive building unique class projects
and personal projects based on real-world
full-stack applications.
Online production specialist and
consultant - 2012 to present
Consulting and researcher on the impact of
new internet technologies for embodied
knowledge distribution, collaboration and
education at the HZT-Berlin (Germany),
Gilles Jobin Company (Switzerland),
Hellerau European Cultural Centrum
(Germany), ICKAmsterdam (The
Netherlands), Live Arts Development
Agency (UK) and DansenHus (Sweden),
TicTac Arts Centre (Belgium), Insight
meditation Society (Barre, MA from April
2020 to June 2021.)
Dance-tech.net and movimiento.org -
2009 to present
Creation, development and curation of the
first global social networks dedicated to
dance and technology in English and
movimiento.org in Portuguese and
Spanish. This project has encompassed
the production of more than 400 video
interviews and projects researching cutting
edge technologies such as Augmented
Reality apps, video streaming, interactive
installations and popup labs, and many
strategic partnerships with many cultural
and educational centers in North America,
Europe, South America, Middle East and
North Africa.
@Medium Essays
A Frame for Augmented Generativity
From Canonical Expressions to
Synthetic Visibilities with Generative
AI