Jerez, Concha & Iges, José
(Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1941/ Madrid, 1951)

Both live and work in Madrid. Intermedia artists and pioneers of electronic art in Spain. They have been collaborating together since 1989, when they first began to render their ideas in works of radio art, performances, installations and intermedia concerts. They have taken part in many international exhibitions and festivals, like the Ars Electrónica Festival (Linz, Austria), 1997 and 2004. Concha Jerez is a political scientist. She studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid. From her early work developing installations in large spaces, she evolved towards performance, intermedia concerts and radio artworks. José Iges is an industrial engineer with a PhD in Information Science. In 1989 he began to collaborate with Concha Jerez on radio art and in performances, installations and intermedia concerts. Since 1985 he works as a programmer for Radio Nacional de España and directs the Ars Sonora programme in Radio Clásica (RNE).