Mexico – Canada

Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda is a Mexican media artist and historian based in Canada. Her research centres on the histories of women and feminism(s) at the intersection of art, media, science and technology, specifically focusing on Latin American artists.  She is the author of the award-winning book Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in post-1968 Mexico (Nebraska Press, 2019) and co-editor of Diffracting the North: Contemporary Latinx Canadian Experiences and Practices in Film, New Media and Visual Arts (Concordia Press, forthcoming). Her academic publications on feminist media art, archival practices, sound studies, research-creation, and Latin American art and its diasporas appear in numerous edited volumes and The Feminist Media Histories Journal, Leonardo Music Journal, Media-N: the Journal of the New Media Caucus, The Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, among others.  Her research-creation practice concerns the production of collaborative multimedia projects investigating the body as a site of cultural, gendered and techno-scientific inscriptions. Aceves Sepúlveda is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Canada on the unceded Coast Salish territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations. She is the director of the research-creation studio Critical-Media-Art-Studio (cMAS) and teaches media arts production, theory and history.