Marcela Rapallo is an artist, researcher, and educator whose work brings these roles together through projects involving multiple groups and networks, centered on live drawing, real-time animation, and interdisciplinary experiences of collective creation. She presents exhibitions, theater works, performances, educational and mediation projects, consulting, and training activities at festivals, galleries, cultural centers, foundations, community programs, and universities in different countries. For more than 25 years, she has created and participated in interdisciplinary collectives focused on drawing as a time-based art form and on collective drawing. She leads the Trazos team, developing open-source technologies for artistic, educational, and community-based projects. She also co-founded the Andrógina/o group (2000–2004), dedicated to live drawing and painting.
She received the Prince Claus Fund CAREC Award (2025) and was nominated for the Ars Electronica CIFO Grants & Commissions Program (2025). In 2026, she participated in the first edition of the Learning Lab Residency, developed by TUMO and NewImages in Armenia, where she led creative labs with young people in Yerevan and Dilijan. In 2025, she also participated in the CAREC Lab Weeks in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She was invited to participate in the Creative Learning Festival 2025 at the Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci in Milan. Her work has been presented at venues and festivals including Banco de la República (Cali, Colombia, COP16), Domo Lleno and Real Mix 0.4 (Bogotá Planetarium, 2024), the CCK Immersive Hall (2024), Festival Escuchar, Sonidos Visuales (MAMBA, 2023), Festival Animal (Rosario, 2019), Accademia Albertina (Italy, 2018), Democritus University of Thrace (Greece, 2018), Let It VJ Festival (Club Cultural Matienzo, 2015), ACTI Festival (Colombia, 2013), Expin Media Lab Workshop (UAO, Cali, 2012), FAM Festival (Chile, 2011), FNArtes (2011), FITI Festival (El Salvador, 2010), ArtFutura (CCEBA, 2010), Sapo Galería, Dibujo contemporáneo (2009), OficinaProyectista (2008), Cultura y Media Festival (Centro Cultural San Martín, 2009), Fase 1 Festival (Centro Municipal de Exposiciones, 2009), Tecnoescena08 (Centro Cultural Recoleta, 2008), and Kentler International Drawing Space (New York, 2008).
She holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA), where she teaches postgraduate courses and directs the research projects Dibujo abierto and El agua: participar en los desafíos ecológicos a través de la información científica y las artes. She was part of the design team for the Diploma in Artistic Pedagogies for Comprehensive Environmental Education and the Diploma in Cultural Mediation, Community, Arts and Technologies, for which she is responsible for artistic coordination. She is also a member of CLACSO’s Working Group Studies on Time and Temporalities and of the research team Communication of Sciences and Technologies for Dialogue and Social Participation at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. She has been an international guest lecturer at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Cali), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti (Italy), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá), and Universidad San Buenaventura (Cali). She was a guest artist at the Expin Media Lab Workshop (UAO, Cali, 2012).
Since 2003, she has developed educational and participatory programs integrating art, technology, and collective creation. She produced content for the Digital Education Plan of the Ministry of Education of the City of Buenos Aires, where she developed the project Dibujo en Escena. She coordinated teacher-training initiatives with Escuela de Maestros and the CAJ program of Argentina’s Ministry of Education. She has designed and facilitated workshops and projects for institutions including Centro Cultural de la Ciencia (C3), Museo Moderno, Fundación Telefónica, Fundación Varkey, Fundación Proa, ACUMAR, Fundación Augusto y León Ferrari, and Programa Cultural en Barrios. She developed projects such as Mural en Movimiento, Música Dibujada, and Pasos y Huellas, presented at Tecnópolis, CCK, Museo de la Cárcova, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, and Centro Cultural Recoleta, among others.
