Tomas (Tom) Laurenzo Coronel (Montevideo, 1977) is an Uruguayan artist, engineer, computer scientist, academic, musician, writer, and designer.
With a wide range of artistic practices and research interests, Laurenzo's production often necessitates to reflect particularly on new technologies, art, and the politics of meaning.
and PhD theses in the fields of new media art, HCI, and politics, establishing the first research group dedicated to these areas, founding the first interdisciplinary research group on HCI, teaching the first undergraduate courses on real-time computer graphics, physical computing, video games, new media art, and creative coding, teaching the first graduate course on new media art, advising the first two MSc theses (since Laurenzo's own), and exhibiting both the first small and large-scale interactive artworks.
[12][13][14] Laurenzo's projects include Awkward Consequence (with Christian Clark and Tobias Klein), the world's first-ever massive VR performance, NEXO (with Gustavo Armagno et al.), which leveraged real-time computer vision improving OLPC's XOs usability for motor-impaired children, and The Vision Machine, an audiovisual performance using real-time VR-mediated wetware on stage.
Laurenzo has performed or exhibited at SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, NIME, ISEA,[18] NeurIPS,[19] ECCV, Sónar+D, MUTEK,[20] TEI, C3A, NYIT, ECCV, Osage Gallery, ANTEL, EAC, UdelaR, MSR, Presidency of Uruguay, Saatchi & Saatchi, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Goethe Institut, International Computer Music Conference, K11 Art Foundation, MNAV, Montevideo Exhibition Center, City Theatre,[21] Chapelle des Bernardines, and the Solís Theatre, among others.