Patricio Dávila is a artist, designer, researcher and educator based in Toronto, Canada. His creative practice explores locative media projects, essay videos, landscape film, new media installations, and participatory community projects. Recent projects include: Shadows!, Powers of Kin, Chthuluscene, Tent City Projections, The Line, and In The Air Tonight. He has created curatorial projects including Multiplex Essay Film Festival, and the Diagrams of Power exhibition, public workshops and a book published by Onomatopee Projects (NL). His creative research practice focuses on the politics and aesthetics of participation in the visualization of spatial issues with a specific focus on urban experiences, mobile technologies and large-scale interactive public installations. He is also co-author of Critical Visualization: Rethinking the Representation of Data, published by Bloomsbury (UK). He is currently Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Arts at York University. Patricio is co-director of Public Visualization Lab / Studio.
