Nicolas Cadena

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Films:

• So That Images Can Be Made
  
• ¡VAVA VIVE! ¡VIVA VAVA!
  
• Scattered Light
  
• A Walk To The Garden
  
• Three Solar Exercises
  
• Tesoros

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My work as an artist and educator stems from the belief that time-based, audiovisual arts are ‘Arts of Embodiment’. The moving image, in tandem with sonic design, disrupts daily life through association, creating fertile ground for paralleling lived experiences, multicultural realities, and dreams. 

My process involves both a personal gaze and a critical understanding of the moving image as an instructional text—an invitation to engage with a didactic language and a means to heighten a viewer's physical awareness within a multi-sensory world of images.

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Nicolas "Nico" Cadena is a Colombian-born, U.S.-based artist and educator. His work spans analog and digital forms and has been exhibited at venues including Millennium Film Workshop, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, and more. 

Alongside his artistic practice, Nico is an educator, serving as an adjunct instructor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and at the Brooklyn-based cinema arts nonprofit Mono No Aware. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Moving Image at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.