August 11, 1985 | apardor@gmail.com | +47 923 52 540
Professional Experience
2021 – Present | Area of Visual Arts – Colombian Ministry of Culture (Bogotá,Colombia / remote work)
Web Developer – External Consultant
- Designer and developer for the Area’s main website and the microsite for the 17th Regional Exhibitions.
- Custom-made template built with WordPress, Foundation CSS, and PHP.
https://artesvisuales.mincultura.gov.co/
Autumn 2020 | Universitetet i Bergen
Assistant Professor
- DIKULT 105 – Web Design.
- DIKULT 106 – Critical approaches to Technology and Society.
- Bachelor thesis supervisor.
2019-2020 | Norec – Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation
Communications Adviser: Web Designer / Project Manager
- UX designer.
- Research, prototype, and develop the new website.
- Photo and video editing.
Førde, Norway
2017 – 2018 | Pentaprisma Design
Freelancer
- Tailored websites based on clients´ needs, with Agile Process Frameworks and a mobile-first approach. Specialized in WordPress and Drupal, hosting, and domain services. Clients included: Universidad de los Andes (one of Colombia’s leading Universities), the Colombian Ministry of Culture, Colombian social entrepreneurs, and Fivas (Foreningen for internasjonale vannstudier).
- Prototyping and developing participatory budgeting tool proposal for Medellín | http://nuestrodesarrollo.com/.
https://andrespardo.digital/pentaprisma
Bogotá, Colombia
2017 | 16th Regional Exhibitions – Salones Regionales de Artistas
Colombian Ministry of Culture
Photographer and videographer
- Photography of art exhibitions and video interviews with different artists across Colombia. The resulting product is used by the Ministry of Culture in printed publications, social networks, and websites.
http://www.salonesdeartistas.com
Bogotá – Bucaramanga – Cartagena – Cali – Manizales – Villavicencio / Colombia
2015 – 2017 | Digital Archive of Art in Colombia
Web Designer / Project Manager
- Implementation of archive routines based on Dublin Core metadata.
- Planning and monitoring of archive development.
- Developer of prototypes for the digital archive of Beatriz González, one of the most important living artists in Colombia. The final project was developed with Omeka: http://bga.uniandes.edu.co/catalogo/.
Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Universidad de los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia
Academic Background
2018 – 2020 MA Digital Culture
- Research topics: Digital Literacy and Digital Gap in Colombia.
Universitet i Bergen | Bergen, Norway
2016 | Digital Humanities Summer Institute – DHSI
RDF and Linked Open
Data Digital Humanities with a Global Outlook
University of Victoria | Victoria, Canada
2013 – 2014 | MA Arts and Culture | Museums and Collections
- Research topics: Peace Studies & Museums.
Faculty of Humanities
Leiden University | Leiden, The Netherlands
2012 – 2014 | MSc Media Technology
- Research topics: Mobile technologies, HCI, Programming, Design for interaction.
Faculty of Science
Leiden University | Leiden, The Netherlands
2011 | Professional Photography course
- Darkroom, lighting techniques, and advanced digital photography.
Zona Cinco Escuela de Cine y Fotografía | Bogotá, Colombia
2009 | Columbia Publishing Course (CPC)
School of Journalism
Columbia University | New York, United States
2004 – 2009 | BA Fine Arts and Art History
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Universidad de los Andes | Bogotá, Colombia
Languages
Spanish: Native
English: Fluent
Portuguese: Fluent
Norwegian: B1-B2
CMS Skills
WordPress | Drupal | Omeka
Programming / Software skills
HTML | CSS | Javascript | PHP
Frontend: Bootstrap | Materialize | Jekyll | Gatsby
Adobe CC: Lightroom | Photoshop | Indesign | Illustrator | Premiere | After Effects | Adobe XD
Photography exhibitions
2020 Experiences of Social Inequalities from Latin America | RIIA Interdisciplinary Research Network on the Americas | Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
2016 Tutunendo | Universidad de los Andes | Bogotá, Colombia
2016 Voto Nacional | Universidad de los Andes |Bogotá,Colombia
2016 LatinFotoFest | El Retrato Latino | Manizales, Colombia
2014 Dialogue of Cultures | Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe
Integration and Foreign Affairs | Photo Competition Intercultural Encounters | Vienna, Austria