Leonardo Aranda

Electronic artist graduated from the UAEM Faculty of Arts. He studied a master's degree in philosophy at UNAM. PhD candidate in the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he served as a research assistant at the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies and at Coalesce, Center for Biological Art. He is director of Medialabmx, an organization focused in research on the links between art, technology and politics. His work focuses mainly on the use of new media and its possible intersections with politics, participation and citizenship. He has exhibited in different spaces in Mexico and abroad in collective exhibitions and festivals in countries such as Russia, Austria, Colombia, the United States, Spain, Canada and Brazil. He has been recognized with the FONCA 2010 Young Creators scholarship, as well as with the Support Program for Production and Research in Art and Media of the Multimedia Center in 2008, where he also served as a jury in the 2012 edition. He carried out research work within the Moving Images workshop of the Multimedia Center from 2009 to 2012. In 2015 he was part of the curatorial team and jury at the Transitio_MX 06 festival. In 2016 he participated in IDEAS CITY, a New Museum project. In 2017 he was part of Interactivos 17 at Medialab-Prado, Madrid, as well as Radical Networks in NY. He was recently awarded within the Solitude-ZKM web residency program.