Mar Canet is a video game computer engineer and an artist interested in data visualising, video games and digital art. In his works he searches for a creative use of technology applied to the creation of new experiences and narratives. Born in Mollet del Vallès (Catalunya, 1981), he obtained a degree in Digital Design from the ESDI school of Design in Barcelona. He later studied Computer Engineering at The Central University of Lancashire (England). Since 2008 he has been working at Ars Electronica, Futurelab as a creative engineer and is also a student in the Masters in Interface Culture Program at the University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz (Austria).
Since 2004, he has been working intensively on art projects and as a curator for the art collective Derivart (http://www.derivart.info). Derivart works in an area where art, technology and finance intersect.