LUZ MARÍA SÁNCHEZ Is a transdisciplinary artist, writer and scholar. She holds a Doctorate in Art from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. Her artistic research extends to sound and language as a techno-scientific machine and builds upon environmental urgency. Sánchez received two consecutive Prix Ars Electronica’s Honorary Mentions (2020 & 2021) for her projects Vis.[un]necessary force #3 and #4. In 2015 she was granted the Climate Change Artist Commission by the Land Heritage Institute (Texas), and in 2014 she received the First Prize Award for the inaugural Biennial de las Fronteras (Mexico). Sánchez is a Member of the National System of Scientific Research [SNI] Level I (2019-2021, 2022-2025) and a member of the National System of Art Creators (2015-2018 and 2020-2023). Sánchez has authored five books, curated exhibitions and transdisciplinary conferences and presented by invitation at leading institutions such as the School of the Art Institute Chicago SAIC, the University of the Arts London UAL, and the ZKM Center for Art and Media. With a professional career of +25 years, Sánchez has exhibited in Europe and the Americas, most recently at Vincent Price Art Museum VPAM, Los Angeles (2022); Ars Electronica, Linz (2021, 2020); MUAC, Mexico City (2019); WRO Art Center, Wroclaw (2019); CCCB/Hangar, Barcelona (2019); Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City (2018); and ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2017). Sánchez’s multi-channel sound work was presented at Piksel Festival, Bergen; Zéppellin Sound Art Festival, Barcelona; International Sound Art Festival, Mexico City; and Tsonami International Sound Art Festival, Valparaiso.
www.luzmariasanchez.com
RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
ANA PAULA SÁNCHEZ-CARDONA. Ph.D. in Humanities. She is professor in the degree in Cultural Management of the Virtual System of the University of Guadalajara in Mexico.
Published Desarmado. Elegía para una tierra sin nombre (2014), a poetry book about violence in contemporary Mexico. She works in cultural projects related to art, human rights and technology between the city of Barcelona and Mexico.
PROGRAMMING, WEB DESIGN AND VISUAL DATA
ROMAIN RÉ was born in France in 1980, studied Science and Technology at the University of Lille 1, and Infographics and Web Design at the University of Perpignan. He started working as a programmer in web agencies such as Faire-Savoir and Chapristi, specializing in ECMAScript languages. In 2010, he came to live in Mexico, where he has developed Digital Learning Objects for the SEP, and was webmaster of the Digital Culture Center of Mexico City for 3 years. He is currently living and working in Montreal.
DEVELOPERS AND APP DESIGNERS
JOSUÉ MARTÍNEZ ALCÁNTARA. Software developer of V.[u]nf_3.01.
JORGE VELEZ. Developer for first prototype V.[u]nf_3.
PRODUCTION
JOSUÉ MARTÍNEZ. (2017 to date) Studio Coordinator and Head of Art Research.
MALINTZIN CORTÉS. (2017) Experimental musician and audiovisual artist. Adopting transdiscipline and technology in the generation of contemporary audio-visual practices, her work is developed between livecoding, live cinema, animation, generative art and sound art. She work is in the compilations "Conditional" Resonance Extra by Mike Hodnick "Kindohm" and Calum Gunn (UK), music with algorithms and SNU (MX).
3D DEVELOPMENT OF V.[u]nf_2
MATEUS KNELSEN. He is an artist, programmer, and designer. He has graduated in Digital Design from Anhembi Morumbi University, in São Paulo, Brazil, and holds a Master's Degree in Interdisciplinary Poetics granted by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has also teach many workshops about creative uses of audiovisual technologies and programming.
JOSUÉ MARTÍNEZ. Electronics, digital devices and audio designer.
CHERYL MOYSEN. Artist, specialist in 3D technology and mapping. She studied at the Tecnológico de Monterrey the degree in Animation and Digital Art.
BRAYANT ROMERO. Design and 3D modeling.
ART THERAPIST AND ADVISOR IN V.[u]nf_2
VERONICA CASTILLO ARNAL. Psychotherapist specialized in infants with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and in Art therapy.
She works in the private sector and in several civil organizations NGOs, such as the Center for the Integral Development of Women, AC (Cedimac), in projects that have to do with Mental Health in Children. She is a teacher of Art Psychology at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez (UACJ). She is currently finishing her PhD studies.
ADVISOR OF V.[u]nf_3 BY THE RESEARCH GROUP IN SOCIAL AND FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY GIASF
CAROLINA ROBLEDO SILVESTRE. Colombian journalist, doctor in Social Sciences with specialization in Sociology by the Colegio de México (2013). Since October 2015 she has held a Conacyt Fellow at the CIESAS Mexico City, where she is a teacher in the Master's and Doctorate in Social Anthropology and responsible for the program of Teaching Cultural Diversity, Ethnicity and Power.
She is the coordinator of the Research Group in Social and Forensic Anthropology (GIASF), from which she promotes research-collaboration projects around the search, documentation and judicialization of forced disappearance and other human rights violations in Mexico.
Since 2015, she has been accompanying the Movement for Our Disappeared in Mexico and is a member of the National System of Researchers Level I.
ADVISOR OF V.[u]nf_3 BY THE RESEARCH GROUP IN SOCIAL AND FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY GIASF
ROSALVA AÍDA HERNÁNDEZ . PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University, Senior Research Professor "C" of the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City.
Member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) Level 3. Her research work has been focused on the defense of the rights of women and indigenous peoples in Latin America.
She has lived and directed research in Mexican indigenous communities in the states of Chiapas, Guerrero and Morelos, with Guatemalan refugees on the southern border, with North African migrants in Spain and with relatives of missing persons in Sinaloa.
ADVISOR OF V.[u]nf_3 AS A RELATIVE OF VICTIMS OF FORCED DISAPPEARANCE
MIRNA NEREIDA. Coordinator and founder of the collective Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte. This collective is looking for victims of forced disappearance since 2014 due to the inaction of the competent authorities.
Mirna Nereida looked for her son Roberto Corrales Medina (21) for three years, until she found him on July 14, 2017, thanks to an anonymous tip, in one of the "searches" they do twice a week in nearby municipalities of Los Mochis, Sinaloa.
The Mrs. Mirna Nereida continues with dozens of relatives of victims of enforced disappearance, promoting the group of Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte. Looking for "theirs treasures". So far, due to the tenacious and titanic effort of Las Rastreadoras, more than 95 families have received the remains of missing relatives.
DEVELOPMENT OF VISUALS AND AUDIO V.[u]nf_3
JOSUÉ MARTÍNEZ. Electronics, digital devices and audio designer.
FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ BUENROSTRO. Video.