Julian Bonequi is a hybrid artist specialized in electroacoustic music composition and 3D production. As musician he has performed under the conduction of the London Improvisers Orchestra, the Berlin Improvisers Orchestra, the FOCO Orchestra of Madrid, William Parker, Tarek Atoui, Keith Tippett, Vagina Dentata Organ, and with musicians such as Ute Wassermann, Paal Nilssen-Love, Gebrüder Teichmann, and more recently with Gudrun Gut and Joachim Irmler at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. In 2015 his music was launched into space as part of the Australian project “Forever Now” curated by Aphids alongside Pierre Henry and Mats Gustafsson.
As curator and founder of Audition Records [Berlin 2010-Mexico 2013] - a transnational documentary platform and hybrid studio based currently in Mexico City -, he has produced series of concerts as “Female Soloists in Berlin” in collaboration with Salon Bruit eV; “and worked as guest curator with Akouphène Festival in Geneva; and in Mexico with the Ex Teresa Arte Actual Museum and with CCDRadio at the Center of Digital Culture.
Participant in the Norient Exhibition 2015-2016, “Seismographic Sounds / Visions of a New World“ at Transmediale and Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, Bonequi has published with Audition Records an important experimental collection of 103 releases, including collaborations with more than five hundreds international artists and curators with music works from 1960 to 2015.
As a professor has taught new-media art education in CENTRO in Mexico, and in the Master Degree of Digital Animation of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and he has collaborated in Research Groups of Interactive Technologies and Neuroscience, with installations of Mixed Reality, working with digital characters and virtual environments, motion capture and projection mapping, for educational exhibitions and games.
Currently Julian Bonequi produces hybrid art shows as an art director and producer, as well as coordinator of the artist-in-residence project of GIS 'Casa-Studio' produced by Audition Records.