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José Carlos Espinel is an art student at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in spain. He got a scholarship in this University and came to UCSC as International Exchange Student through the EAP Program to spend a year in California.
He began his studies on Fine Arts seven years ago at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In 2007 finished his 5 year undergraduate in Fine Arts / design and then redirected his interests to new technologies in art, especially sculpture. In 2008 he took a master in Art, Creation and Research at the same university and presented a short animation film as part of the final draft of the master.
During these years of study at the Universidad Complutense, he has been working as graphic designer for several enterprises and collaborating with the Fine Arts Department.
He has also had several exhibitions, some of them individuals and other collective and has been given two prizes in the last year, one on painting and other in short animation film. His works are developed around the subject of the myths and tales as basic elements of the social identity. He is an artist worried about childhood and education and on how our societies are changing in this meaning due to the parental and society incapability to manage children's education.
He has already started his PhD thesis research about "New technologies in sculptural creation" and has been working on a manual about how to use a 3D scanner for sculpture scanning, making a hard research on the scanning process depending on the kind of material the sculpture is made of.
His works and ¡plastic interests have evolved from the creation of traditional sculptures, paintings and prints to the realization of sculptures created with more recent materials like resins and fibers, and audiovisual works mixing traditional animating process with 3d modeling and digital video editing.
E-MAIL: espineljose (at) yahoo (dot) es
Recent Works - Introduction to DANM 210
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