Bio

Miguel Gonzalez, MFA, is a contemporary artist, and professor from Venezuela and the USA.  Gonzalez graduated from The Parsons School of Design in New York City.  He teaches Art and Technology at the New World School of the Arts in Miami. 

Miguel is a recipient of the Miami-Dade Individual Artists (MIA) Grant Program, and he is the creator of Immersive Design Studio “Origen Lux”. His main interests are new media and technology, sound art, language, 3D Animation and multi-sensorial art spaces.

Miguel has a permanent light art installation at the MAD Arts Museum in Florida, and has exhibited at Superblue in Miami for Chroma art film festival, The Royal College of London, Lishui Biennale in China, Lumenaura for Aurora Public Art,  Sheila Aronson Gallery in Manhattan, the Contemporary and Digital Art Fair during Art Basel, Immerse Festival in Orlando, New Media Festival for the Doral Contemporary Museum, IIDRR Gallery in NYC, and at The Miami Art Society Gallery.

Synopsis

Muses Awaken: North Sea by Miguel Gonzalez is a digital dream rendered in 3D animation and sound. Created specifically for the 20 x 5-meter semi-transparent LED screen in Sunderland, UK, this new iteration centers on an imagined goddess of the North Sea, a powerful, ethereal figure who levitates above a vast, undulating ocean, rising over the restless tide. She moves with a quiet but undeniable power, summoning water, wind, and sound into motion.

This work continues Miguel’s broader investigation into how ancient mythologies, once a compass for understanding nature, can speak to the rhythms of contemporary life. Muses Awaken proposes that mythology still holds an essential place: not as nostalgia, but as a source of poetic insight and emotional resonance. The piece invites reflection on how we might recover or redefine spirituality, not as dogma, but as an embodied, fluid relationship between self, nature, and the unseen.  

Waves generated through intricate simulations crash and fold around her, while layers of sound echo her presence. The translucency of the LED screen allows the muse, the sea and sky to merge through layers of motion and light.  

In Muses Awaken: North Sea, the sacred and divine re-emerges not as a relic of the past but as a symbol for imagination’s resilience. It is a call to see with older eyes, to listen to the world beneath the surface, and to find meaning in places that technology cannot fully map.