Marlon Barrios Solano (Venezuela/USA/UK/Germany/Holland) works as an independent movement/new media artist, researcher, on-line producer, vlogger, consultant, educator, curator and professional nomad.

He holds an MFA in Dance and Technology 2004 (real-time digital technology, performance of improvisation and embodied cognition) from The Ohio State University, USA.

As a professional dancer in New York City, he performed nationally and internationally with Susan Marshal and Dancers (1997-2000), Lynn Shapiro Dance Company (1995-1998), and with the choreographers Merian Soto, Dean Moos, Bill Young, among others. He also performed with the musicians John Zorn, Philip Glass and Eric Friedlander.

Under Unstablelandscape (2003-07), he performed and researched improvisational performances within digital real-time environments performing in the US and Europe. With a hybrid background in movement and new media arts, organizational development, and cognitive science, he researches and create platforms for the development of open and sustainable models of knowledge production and distribution among trans-local artistic communities communities and organizational contexts.

He is the creator/producer/curator of dance-techTV, a collaborative internet video channel dedicated to innovation and experimental performing arts and its social network dance-tech.net.

His research is focused on on-line/off-line collaborative technologies/methods; social media and hyper-media publishing for artists and cultural managers; networked/collaborative creativity and interactive tools for knowledge production, generation and distribution; Open Space technologies and facilitation of interactive learning platforms for collaboration and innovation; emergent dramaturgies and creative models in relation with networked technologies and methodologies.

Marlon is a research associate at DanceDigital and a researcher in residency at CARD Centre for Applied Research in Dance at the University of Bedforshire (UK) and ICKAmsterdam/STEIM (Holland).

He is a guest lecturer for the Masters on Performance Practices and Visual Culture for the Universidad de Alcala (Spain) and HZT Berlin for 2012.