Icaro Lopez de Mesa Moyano, also known as, Nene del Solar is a Colombian sound-media artist, musician and educator interested in creating instruments based on digital-electronic infrastructures for performing arts. In his artistic PhD Icaro researches the agency of gold used in electronic microchips and connectors, proposing music-sound instruments and performance as alternatives to reflect about environmental damage and ecosystem imbalance that gold mining and extraction has caused in territories around the global south. Thus, Icaro's interest in Elasticity arose from the research on the mining communities and bodies that stretch, resist and fight against gold and metal mining.
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