About us
Hotaru Visual Guerrilla is an independent creative studio formed by Ander Ugartemendia and Jone Vizcaino.
Our work focuses on the creation of audiovisual experiences with a strong emphasis on future aesthetics and experimentation.
We like exploring the intersection between science, nature, and technology, always looking for the perfect combination of organic and digital elements inviting the viewers to visualize alternative realities.
Our work it’s been awarded several times and shown internationally in countries such as China, UAE, the USA, Japan, Germany, UK, and the Czech Republic.
Awards
“Postnatural” | Bronze Award | Shining Shanghai Festival (China) 2024
“Succession”, Anhui Shenfu "Fu" Culture International Digital Art Award, 2024
“Artificial Nature” | Bronze Award | Chongqing International Light Art Festival (China) 2023
“Anthesis” | Grand Prize | Videomapping Festival #5 | Théâtre du Nord Facade Lille (France) 2022
“Plethora”| BBBank Award 2nd prize | SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Light Festival Karlsruhe (Germany) 2022
“Lore” | Video Art individual award nomination | 2020 CITIC Press Lightening Selection (China) 2020
“Artificial Nature” | 2nd Prize | Kyiv light festival (Ukraine) 2019
“Asagao” | Special Jury Prize | 1-minute projection mapping, Nagasaki (Japan) 2018
“Gestalt” | Genius Loci Weimar (Germany) 2017
Selection of Commissioned Works & Exhibitions
"Convergence", A/V Projection Mapping | Light Our Vision Chemnitz (Germany) 2024
"Lurrazala", Media Facade, Kursaal Donostia (Spain) 2024
“Biotechture”, A/V projection mapping | Napa Lighted Art Festival (USA) 2024
“Micro”, A/V projection mapping | Lightpool festival (UK) 2023
“Biotechture”, A/V projection mapping | Vivid Sydney Festival (Australia) 2023
“Mycelium”, A/V projection mapping | Videomapping Festival Lille (France) 2023
“Trace”, A/V projection mapping | Artic University Museum in Tromso (Norway) 2022
“Future Lichen”, Digital Artwork | AVI Gallery | Friday Harbour Resort, Innisfil, Ontario (Canada) 2022
“Basalore”, Digital Artwork | Jason/Sveinn Gallery | Artcentral Hong Kong (China) 2022
“Utopia”, A/V projection mapping | I Paint Suzhou festival (China) 2021
“Transnature”, A/V projection mapping | Fjord Oslo festival (Norway) 2021
“Swarm Intelligence”, A/V projection mapping | Constellations de Metz (France) 2021
“EXPO 2020 metro station”, set of moving designs for the new metro station opening | RTA Dubai (UAE) 2020
“Chaos”, A/V projection mapping | Napa Lighted Art Festival (USA) 2020
“Physis”, digital sculpture| Shift + International Digital Vision Exhibition (Shanghai) 2019
“Immiscible”, digital artwork commissioned by Artechouse | Le Meridien Central Park Hotel lobby NY (USA) 2019
“Biofilms”, A/V anaglyph projection mapping | Signal Festival Prague (Czech Republic) 2018
“Chaos”, A/V projection mapping | Light Night Leeds (UK) 2018
“Crimson”, A/V projection mapping | Artvision Modern Moscow (Russia) 2017
“Photosynthesis”, A/V projection mapping | Zsolnay Fèny Fesztival (Hungary) 2017
“Simbiosis”, A/V projection mapping | Luz y Vanguardias (Spain) 2017
“Transmutation”, A/V projection mapping | Kyiv light festival (Ukraine) 2017
“Life process of living things”, A/V projection mapping | Artvision Modern Moscow (Russia) 2016
Talks & Interviews
Interview at Cadena Ser, El Diario Vasco and Euskadi Irratia (Spain) 2024
Panel at the Lightpool Conference (UK) 2023
Talk for the Faculty of architecture in the Technische Universitat Dresden (Germany) 2020
“Digital art and space” talk at Forum on Digital Media Design Education Shanghai (China) 2019
Panel at Camp SIGNAL festival Prague programme (Czech Republic) 2018
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