Manuela Donoso & Merche Blasco

Teaches at Pioneer Works

Graphic and interactive designer, Manuela Donoso, graduated from PUCV’s School of Design and Architecture in Chile, where during four years she experimented with materials and new ways of graphic expression. Her interest in shaping space using light and materials led her to work as a light scene designer for large scale music concerts –Yelle, Tiga, Miami Horror, among others– and to pursue a Master in Lighting Design from the University of Rome Sapienza. Manuela lives in New York City, where she has recently graduated from NYUs MPS Interactive Telecommunications Program. At ITP she focused on physical computing, exploring new materials, and developing a deeper understanding of sound. Her projects continue to address designing interactions in space through graphics, light and sound. Trained as a Telecommunications Engineer, Merche Blasco developed in parallel to her studies a more creative path related with music, video, installation and performance. As en Electronic Music Performer she has participated & collaborated with various artists such as Chicks on Speed or Cristian Vogel, establishing a strong relationship between different mediums of artistic expression & her own musical direction. She has presented her work in Sonar Festival in Barcelona, Mapping Festival (Geneve), Sonic Art Circuits (Washington), Queens Museum of Art (New York), NIME2012, among others. Merche has recently graduated from the MPS Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP / NYU) where she mainly focused on Interactive Design for exhibitions and new tools for Electronic Music Performance, meaning visual sound reactive pieces, choreographic tools through computer vision and New Interfaces for Musical Expression.