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The Argentinean Mario Verandi (1960, Buenos Aires) is a sound and media artist. He studied at the music academy of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina), at the Phonos Electroacoustic Music Studio in Barcelona and at Birmingham University. His work is characterised by the exploration of the poetic and evocative potential of sounds and the incorporation of this in compositions, audiovisual installations and live performances. He has been, among other things, a scholarship holder of the DAAD German Academic Exchange Service and guest lecturer at the Free University in Berlin. He has received numerous prizes, among them the European Bell Festival’s ZKM-Komposition Prize, the Prix Ars Electronica cyber arts prize (Austria) and the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Award (France).