Alejandro Durán, born in Seville in 1978, is an artist who has excelled in the fields of painting and the development of content for digital planetariums. During his education from 1992 to 2001, he studied drawing and painting in various painting and drawing workshops at the School of Arts in Seville and the Faculty of Fine Arts at Santa Isabel de Hungría, Seville.
Subsequently, he became an internal student in the painting department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville and continued his education at De Montfort University in Leicester in 2002 and at the Faculty of Fine Arts at San Carlos, Polytechnic University of Valencia, in 2003, where he delved into the fields of new technologies, the internet, communication, programming, figurative storytelling, computing, and audiovisuals. In 2006, he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts at San Carlos in Valencia, followed by a Master's in Artistic Production at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 2008. In addition to his education, Durán has participated in numerous artistic projects, both individual and collective exhibitions, and has shared his experience in roundtable discussions and lectures. He has also worked in curating exhibitions and has been recognized with awards and scholarships for his artistic work.
In the educational and scientific domain, he has researched and developed content for planetariums. Alongside his work as an artist, he has specialized in creating children's films for digital planetariums with the aim of providing the educational sector with a unique content tool for highly entertaining, creative, and emotionally engaging teaching.
Alejandro Durán's first projects for digital planetarium content began in 2006, targeting both children and adults. The themes and content were centered around universal knowledge of astronomy for primary and nursery schools, as well as institutes for secondary education.
As an author, prior to the BuoFulldome project, he gained recognition for his fulldome creations such as "The country of four", "A Journey through the Solar System," "Our Skies," "On the Trail of Energy," and "Physics and Chemistry: In History Class," among others.
Throughout his career, he has collaborated on various fulldome films, including "Exploring the Solar System" and "The Ringworld."
In 2014, he initiated a personal project with BuoFulldome, primarily dedicated to providing educational and entertaining content for digital planetarium activities, primarily aimed at young children in schools.
A minimum reflection, by Alejandro Durán:
The importance of art and science in training at an early age provides a series of creative abilities that help us improve our experiences in life and our ability to intervene in our environment. The artistic and scientific education seen from the necessary breadth, is linked to the improvement of many physical, emotional and psychic qualities, the artistic and scientific impressions that a child receives can last a lifetime in his memory and consequently, increases the chances that In adulthood, value "knowledge" with greater interest and improve your empathy with your surroundings. That is why artistic and scientific education should be considered as an intrinsic part in the formation of people at a very young age. In this sense, with the personal project BuoFulldome I try to provide the necessary content to provide students with a sensory experience that combines creativity and teaching.