Laura Ramirez [Optika VJ]
Av Director - Visual artist - VJ
Av Director - Visual artist - VJ

Laura is a visual arts lover dedicated to direct and produce live visuals projects and experimental pieces for commercial brands, art exhibitions and worldwide academic presentations. She produces herself and host her work under the name of "Optikal Ink Lab" her AV laboratory and label.
After many years working on advertising and TV as Filmmaker/producer, she found in 2008 the art based on video projection and light and she began to develop live performances and installations and to direct video mapping projects. Since then she has lectured and performing as "Optika " in electronic art festivals like Mapping Festival in Geneva-CH, LPM in Rome, Vision'R in Paris and VJ University in Sao Paulo and her videos has been screened on sites such as the Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro and at the International Mobile Innovation Screening in Wellington/New Zealand .
Laura also has worked as VJ in several parties and concerts next to renowned DJ's and bands in South America, USA and Europe, in clubs like "REX Club" in Paris, "TRESOR" in Berlin and in cities like Bogota, NY, Budapest and Barcelona among others.
As video mapping director she has designed large scales projects like the "AV Invader" in Bogota for 90,000 people during the Summer Festival with 140 m2 of video projection, the first made for this festival and the largest held in the city and recently in 2016 she designed, direct and produced a VIP stage area for Katy Perry concert in Colombia with a projected area of 480 m2., in addition she has collaborated in architectural mappings whit the international crew "United VJ's" in the cities of Sao Paulo, Japan and Finland.
Lately Laura has been working on intervention of public spaces in festivals like the "Nuit blanche" in Bogota, Led media Facade projects for the biggest tower in Colombia in honor of Colombian folklore, video guerrilla and LED installations including FullDome projections.
Interviews and reviews
![]() Modul8 and Mad mapper (English)
MAD MAPPER - AV INVADER MODUL8 - AV INVADER MAD MAPPER - ENTER THE WALL ![]() ![]() |
![]() The Creators Project (French and Portuguese)
THE CREATORS PROJECT - AV INVADER THE CREATORS PROJECT - AV INVADER THE CREATORS PROJECT - ENTER THE WALL THE CREATORS PROJECT - AVENIDA PIXEL ![]() ![]() |
ART SELECTIONS
Selections, Exhibitions, talks and presentations.
![]() - MAPPING FESTIVAL Official Selection. Geneve / Switzerland. 2012. VJ set for clubbing and VJ contest. 4th place in competition.
http://mappingfestival.ch/2012/en/types/ ![]() VISION'R 2012. Showcase / Lecturer "Optikal Ink Lab". Paris, France.
http://www.vision-r.org/?p=714&lang=en ![]() VJ UNIVERSITY. Lecturer - Presentation of Optikal Ink Lab and "AV Invader" . São Paulo
http://vjuniversity.com.br/ ![]() "International Mobile Innovation Screening 2011 & MINA Mobile Creativity and Innovation Symposium" Film Archive, Wellington, New Zealand. Screening - Video art. MINA
![]() VJ torna International contest. Official Selection Brazil. São Paulo. 2010. VJ contest.
http://vjtorna.com.br/ ![]() 404 Post Electronic Art Festival. Official Selection Buenos Aires - Switzerland - Italy
2008. VJ set http://www.404festival.com/eng/autores2008.htm # 75 ![]()
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![]() - LPM Rome and VJ Torna International. Showcase "Optikal Ink Lab" , VJ Torna and Live Mapping contest.Optika VJ 2 place in competition
Link 1 : LPM 2012 - Link 2 :VJ TORNA ROME ![]() Member of the United VJ's - International Team with partners in São Paulo, Brazil and Europe, performing around the world.
http://www.unitedvjs.co.uk/ ![]() - FESTIVAL CULTURA DIGITAL BRAZIL 2011 - Official Selection. Museum of Arts in Rio de Janeiro /Brazil. Digital Exhibition - VJ set.
http://culturadigital.org.br/project/optikal-nation/ ![]() MAPPING FESTIVAL 2011 Official Selection. Geneve / Switzerland. 2011. VJ set for clubbing and contest.
http://mappingfestival.ch/2011/types/?artist=1280&lang=en ![]() Cinetrip VJ TOURNAMENT 2010. Official Selection Budapest / Hungary. VJ set and contest.
http://www.cinetrip.hu/en/vjtournament ![]() PROPAGANDA Barranquilla - Col. Electronic Art. Allianza Francesa 2010. Interactivity, VJ , digital cinema. http://barranquilla.alianzafrancesa.org.co/spip.php?article281
![]() Campus Party Colombia - Lecturer and VJ. History and Current Trends. 2009 and 2010
http://www.campus-party.com.co/2010/campuscrea.html |