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Patricio Gonzalez Vivo (Buenos Aires, 1982) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans traditional and digital media. Now based in the United States, he explores awareness, perception, and self-discovery through motifs such as celestial bodies, esoteric symbolism, temporal systems, and cartographic forms. His work weaves together the poetic and the procedural, revealing hidden structures behind the ways we measure and make sense of the world.

A defining aspect of Patricio’s practice is the creation of his own tools, libraries, and pedagogical resources, which he releases openly. For him, toolmaking is both an artistic method and a form of community stewardship—an act of sharing knowledge and expanding access to creative technologies. His Book of Shaders has shaped an entire generation of digital artists, serving as a cornerstone for workshops, courses, and derivative projects around the world. His tools —GlslViewer, glslCanvas and glslPipeline— and libraries such as Lygia, Vera, Berthe, and Hypatia are widely used as reliable instruments for artistic experimentation and production.

Patricio’s work has been exhibited and presented at EYEO, Resonate, GROW, FILE, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, BrightMoments, FlyingTokyo, DotDotDot and FASE. He has spoken about his practice at institutions including the MIT Media Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, Frank-Ratche Studio for Creative Inquiry and Politecnico di Milano. He has taught at Parsons School of Design (his alma mater, in the MFA Design & Technology program), ITP NYU, SFPC (School for Poetic Computation), and the Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte in Argentina. His work has been featured in Wired, Gizmodo, The Atlantic, and Fast Company.

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