Mateo Carabajal
Artist, Teacher, and Musician in Tucumán, Argentina
Mateo Carabajal
Artist, Teacher, and Musician in Tucumán, Argentina
Electronic engineer, teacher and musician. He teaches technological arts workshops throughout the country and abroad. Co-founder of the first Argentine Dorkbot node (global network for the promotion of technological arts) in 2009. In 2011 he starred in the short documentary "Los Aparatos de Mateo" selected at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. He was Coordinator of Educational Robotics and Emerging Technologies of the Ministry of Education of Tucumán (Argentina), between 2015 and 2022. He participated in international electronic art festivals such as FILE (International Festival of Linguagem Eletrônica of Brazil) or the Maker Music Festival (USA). He made exhibits and performances of electronic art in different museums and art galleries in Argentina. He founded the first Makerspace in Tucumán for educational purposes “Academia Mundial de Hacedores”. He carries out the boutique musical synthesizers and technology didactics project “Los Aparatos'', www.losaparatos.com.ar. He is guitarist of the rock band Estación Experimental; He is part of the experimental pop musical project Natalia A. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Cooperativa Dichosa Editorial Ltda. He is a professor of New Technologies at the UNT School of Fine Arts and of the Psychomotricity career at the Decroly Institute (Tucumán).