Skills sets

Fabrication and Hardware

• Robotics (KUKA)
• 3D printing
• Laser cutting
• CNC router
• 3D scanning

• Biofabrication
• Wet Lab
• Woodworking
• Wood lamination
• Clay/plaster modeling

Digital tools

• Rhinoceros - RhinoCAM
• Grasshopper - Kangaroo, Karamba
• Adobe Suite
• Keyshot, VRay
• Meshlab

Programming Languages

• Python
• HTML + CSS3

Grants and awards

2020
DAAD - COLFUTURO Scholarship

2018
Creation Grant. Objetos Fúngicos. National Fund of Arts of Argentina

2018
Design Research Grant. Metropolitan Fund of Culture Arts and Science of Buenos Aires

2016
Training Grant. National Arts Fund of Argentina

2015
Shenzhen Design Award for young talents.
KODAMA desk nominated by General Directorate of Foreign Trade of Buenos Aires to represent the city in the SZ DAY Shenzhen. China

Exhibitions

2024

2022

2017

Matter of South: Biomaterial Cultures from Latin America
Kunstgewermuseum, Berlin, Germany

Trazos Biomateriales.

2022
Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos AIres, Argentina

Milan Design Week 2022 SuperNatural Collection
WE WILL DESIGN. BASE. Milano, Italia

REHOGAR. Open Design and Reuse. Makea Tu Vida
Barcelona, España

2022
Trazos Biomateriales.
Objetos Fungicos
Buenos Aires, Argentina //centroculturalrecoleta.org/

PUBLICATIONS

Antorveza Paez K, Ling AS, Mahamaliyev N, Bauer G, Dillenburger B.: 2024, Digital Fabrication of Biologically Cemented Spatial Structures. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing 2024; (DOIi: 10.1089/3dp.2023.0339)

E. Özdemir*, L. Kiesewetter*, K. Antorveza*, T. Cheng, S. Leder, D. Wood, A. Menges: 2021, Towards Self-Shaping Metamaterial Shells: A Computational Design Workflow for Hybrid Additive Manufacturing of Architectural Scale Double-Curved Structures. Proceedings of the 2021 DigitalFUTURES (CDRF 2021), pp. 275–285. (DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-5983-6_26)

T. Cheng, D. Wood, L. Kiesewetter, E. Özdemir, K. Antorveza, A. Menges: 2021, Programming Material Compliance and Actuation: Hybrid Additive Fabrication of Biocomposite Structures for Large-Scale Self-Shaping. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, vol. 16, no. 5. (DOI: 10.1088/1748- 3190/ac10af)

Antorveza, K., 2020. Objetos fúngicos - Fungal Objects. [online] Issuu. Available at: <https://issuu.com/kaphend/docs/fungalobjects_booklet> [Accessed 25 October 2021].

KAREN ANTORVEZA

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