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Leonardo Aranda

Leonardo Aranda (https://medialabmx.org/leonardo/statement.html) is an electronic artist and media scholar from Mexico City. He holds a PhD in Media Study from SUNY Buffalo, a master's in philosophy from UNAM, and a bachelor's in visual arts from UAEM. He is the director of Medialabmx, a non-profit research organization focused on the links between art, technology, and politics. His work focuses mainly on the use of new media and the possible intersections with politics, participation, and citizenship. He has exhibited internationally in group exhibitions and festivals in Mexico, Germany, Russia, Austria, the United States, Spain, Canada, and Brazil. Leonardo worked as a researcher in the Multimedia Center in Mexico City from 2009 to 2012. In 2015, he was part of the curatorial team of Transitio_MX 06 International Electronic Arts Festival. In 2016, he participated in IDEAS CITY Detroit, at the New Museum. In 2017 he was part of Interactivos at Medialab-Prado, Madrid, and of Radical Networks in Brooklyn, NY, and he was a resident of the Solitude- ZKM web residency program in 2020. His work is part of the Electronic Literature Organization, third and fourth collections. He was a visiting professor at the Department of Art and Humanities at UAM-Lerma and was recently a fellow at the New School Institute for Critical Social Inquiry in NY. He currently teaches in the Doctoral Program in Technoaesthetics at the Tres de Febrero University in Argentina. His academic work has been presented in conferences such as SHOT (2018) and published in journals such as Actio Journal of Technology in Design, Film Arts and Visual Communication, International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace, and Theory: Journal of the College of Philosophy, UNAM. He recently participated in the History+Technology/Tapuya Trans-Hemispheric Seminar on Race and the History of Technology.