SECOS Artistic Residencies are conceived as a space of encounter where contemporary artists can expand their practices in dialogue with the institute’s researchers and with the territorial work that SECOS develops in coastal communities. These residencies provide a collaborative framework that encourages open, situated, and reflective exploration of the socio-ecological challenges being studied today.
For artists, the residencies offer an opportunity to engage with the languages, methodologies, and modes of scientific thinking through an open and guided approach, where curiosity and questions shape the processes of creation and inquiry. Field visits, workshops, conversations with scientists, and exchanges with local communities are some of the activities activated during the residency, giving rise to spaces of experimentation, mutual learning, and co-creation.
Javiera Asenjo (2024 – 2025)
Textile artist who developed a residency at SECOS focused on researching fishing gear and its connections with textile materialities, memory, and the transmission of knowledge. Her work engaged with historical research on colonial fishing techniques and pre-Columbian knowledge, as well as with contemporary practices. During her residency, she studied textile materials, processes, and technologies related to fishing, combining archival research, museum visits, and fieldwork in communities such as Caleta Chungungo and Caleta El Manzano. Through exchanges with fishers, scientists, and artists, her work explored the relationships between territory, biodiversity, and fishing practices, while also highlighting the role of women in these trades.
Bolgeri & Marín (B&M) (2024 – 2025)
An artistic duo composed of Carla Bolgeri and Francisco Marín that researches and creates at the intersection of performance, sound, and intermedia arts. During their residency at SECOS, they focused on the study of wind and coastal geomorphological processes, exploring the movement of the aeolian mantle and its interaction with materials and ephemeral structures. Through fieldwork in territories such as Coliumo, Tongoy, Las Cruces, and the mouth of the Maipo River, and in dialogue with researchers and local communities, their research articulated sound, body, and visuality to generate new ways of interpreting coastal dynamics and their socio-ecological impacts.
Website: https://bolgerimarin.com/biocv
Nathan di Pietro (2020 – 2023)
Painter and digital artist (USA) whose practice expands the tradition of landscape painting through virtual reality and immersive media. Classically trained in egg tempera painting, his work combines rigorous methods of analog painting with emerging technologies to create immersive and three-dimensional digital landscapes. During his collaboration with SECOS, he explored how virtual environments can expand ecological observation and artistic interpretation of the first murals of the Times of Muralism project, contributing to the project’s early mural visualization experiences through postcards that were used for remote collaboration during the pandemic. His practice blends natural elements, digital sculpture, and immersive drawing to investigate new ways of experiencing place, environment, and perception.
Jeff Brice (2025 – present)
Visual artist, designer, and academic at Seattle University (USA). His interdisciplinary practice explores the creative possibilities of new technologies, with a focus on extended reality (XR) and immersive environments. He has worked as Creative Director for Gemspinner II: Waterquest (Tiny Bite Games) and was one of Microsoft’s early HoloLens Creative Developers. His work has been featured in Wired, Time, and Scientific American. As part of his residency at the SECOS Millennium Institute, Jeff collaborates with the Arts + Science team on the Times of Muralism project, developing interactive and mixed-reality components for the murals in Tongoy and Tubul. His work focuses on mobile phone–activated mixed reality experiences that layer digital narratives, soundscapes, and visualizations onto murals created with local communities, expanding them into immersive platforms for ecological knowledge and memory.
Ángela Castillo (2026 – present)
Chilean visual artist and educator, holding a Bachelor’s degree in Arts, a diploma in Philosophy of Science, and currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Transdisciplinary Creation at the Universidad Católica de Temuco. Her work primarily engages drawing, ceramics, and installation, exploring the relationships and tensions between animal and human life in rural contexts. As part of her residency at the SECOS Millennium Institute, she is researching along Chile’s central coast the connections between art and coastal ecosystems through the body and the senses. Her project proposes a kit in the form of a board game that invites participants to imagine how different animals dream according to their environment, integrating walks, material exploration, and collective experiences.
