My name is Leonardo Solaas. My surname is Norwegian, but I was born in Argentina and live and work in Buenos Aires, an enormous city far away from almost everything (but there is the Internet...)
So, I should give you a picture of myself. Hmmm. Let’s see. I used to read a lot since very little, but not so much (not as much as I’d like anyway) since I’m busy as hell – that is, more or less, since I climbed on the digital age express to nowhere. I studied Philosophy and enjoyed it a lot. I was a craftsman for more than ten years, working with hand made paper and such stuff. I never officially learned programming or any of the things I do everyday now, it just came through practice and curiosity, little by little.
The thing is, now I spend most of my day in front of my loyal laptop, working as freelance developer & interface designer for the most interesting clients I manage to find, and going about my own experiments and ideas when I can get to that.
This site intends to be a hub for several kinds of traces left behind by my so-called ‘artistic’ practice, plus related pursuits. I’m not sure what all this ‘new media art’ thing is all about, but for me is a convenient playground where I can mash up all sorts of interests with relative freedom.
I have a theory about the unity of myself. I’ll tell you if you don’t mind. I believe that, through all this schizophrenia of things I’ve loved and though and worked with in my life, there is a common thread that stitches all together (that’s a fairly common illusion, isn’t it?). That mysterious vanishing point is just beyond the line of sight, I’m afraid, but has something to do with rule-based systems, autonomous worlds, pocket universes, something like that – mostly useless games that can be watched in fascination while they fatally deploy their own internal logic.
Would you still be in the mood for more of me, you can click through some of the following:
My Curriculum Vitae
Things I can do
Or see some of my places elsewhere on the web:
Photos on Flickr
Links on Del.icio.us
Personal page at Facebook
Profile at LinkedIn
Profile at Bola de Nieve
Netvibes Universe
