Daniel Canogar:
Chyron
Light Installation
Chyron (2022) uses news channel chyrons—text superimposed on the lower part of a screen. Woven together like a frayed fabric, the chyrons evoke the fragile and, at times, unstable balance of today’s information ecosystem, created from disparate and often conflicting sources. Updated in real time, this algorithmic artwork features chyrons from major international news channels, including CNN, Fox News, Bloomberg, BBC News, Reuters, CNBC, Al Jazeera, and Le Monde.
Part of the Pixelweaver series, Chyron draws on textiles as a metaphor for the social fabric shaped and disrupted by the news. These artworks pay tribute to the link between information technology and textiles, beginning with the jacquard loom in the early nineteenth century, considered by many historians to be the first computer. For this new series, Studio Daniel Canogar developed a virtual loom based on craft techniques. This algorithmic tool enables the creation of a wide range of patterns from different sources or ‘spools.’
Bio
Daniel Canogar lives and works between Spain and the U.S. He began his artistic journey with photography, earning an MA from NYU at the International Center of Photography. Over time, his interests expanded to the potential of projected images and installation art. Canogar has created numerous permanent public art installations using LED screens, including Pulsation (2023), the first-ever outdoor digital artwork, designed specifically for the Serena Williams Building at Nike's World Headquarters in Oregon. His monumental public works in various media include Malestrom San Fernando (Madrid, 2024) and Scrawl (Madrid, 2023), generative artworks projected on the façades of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Canogar has exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries worldwide. He is an associate professor in IE University’s Architecture Program in Madrid and teaches in the Curatorial Studies Program at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.