I'm Diego López, also known as TIRADOR, a moving image artist working across collage, found footage and AI-generated imagery.

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My practice explores the circulation, transformation and memory of images in the digital age. Drawing from forgottenonline archives, anonymous recordings and AI-generated material, I collect visual fragments and re-edit them into new moving image compositions.

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I never produce or record new footage. Every image in my work already exists—or could exist—and is transformed through editing, appropriation and digital reconstruction. I approach the internet as an ever-expanding archaeological site, excavating discarded, overlooked and synthetic images from the endless flow of digital culture and removing them from their original contexts to construct new visual narratives.

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Working across contemporary art, experimental cinema, live performance and music, my practice investigates authorship, appropriation and the evolving nature of the moving image, questioning how images are created, circulated, consumed and remembered in an age of infinite reproduction.

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It's been ten years since I started TIRADOR. Over the past decade, I've had the opportunity to collaborate with artists

I admire and present my work in different contexts around the world. I'm deeply grateful to everyone who has been part of this journey.

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My work has led to collaborations with artists including Metallica, Tokischa, Cora Novoa, Objekt and Örvar Smárason, alongside visual projects and performances for Afterlife, Sónar, Resident Advisor, MIRA Festival and NAVA.

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These projects have taken my work to Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Reykjavík, Istanbul and New York, from live performances at Parc del Fòrum and Avant Gardner to large-scale public and architectural displays at Times Square in New York, Callao in Madrid and the EP7 façade in Paris.

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Across all these different contexts, the approach remains the same: collecting, transforming and giving new life to existing images.