Aranza Cortés Karam is a multimedia artist, educator and art historian born in Mexico City (1992). She holds a BA in Art History by Universidad Iberoamericana, studied Cultural Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Tijuana), and has continued her education at institutions like MUAC, Fundación Jumex, Museo Tamayo, and with artists such as Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, whom she collaborates with. As an artist and producer she was Core Member and Project Coordinator of Guillermo Gómez Peña and La Pocha Nostra. In the last year she was part of the management team of the internationally renowned, Mexican rock band, Molotov, with whom she toured Latin America and the United States. She produced and was part of the Curatorial Council of Latin American Art Fair in San Diego for three years.
Aranza is currently professor of “Multimedia Design and Digital Art” and “Speculative Design and Design Thinking” in the Bachelor of Humanities and Multimedia Narratives program at the Universidad Nacional Rosario Castellanos. As an educator she has facilitated and lectured at several institutions, some of them are Wellesley College, Centro, SOMA, La Tallera, Editorial Código and Centro de Cultura Digital.
As an artist and researcher her preferred formats are experimental video, performance, digital collage, DJ, and writing. With her art her quest is to continue developing forms of resistance by appropriating through digital and artistic practices. She runs the Digital Disobedience Laboratory, a DIY performance and technological education project that she has presented in Mexico City, Bogotá, Chicago, and online. From 2015 to 2020, she was part of the international network Chicas Poderosas, with whom she organized hackathons in Mexico and Argentina. She has contributed to various publications, most recently “Digital Sovereignty: A Concept in Motion” for the “Post Cyberpunk” issue of Revista Generación.
Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, the United States, the tri-border area of Iguazú, Colombia, and the Czech Republic in venues such as Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Centro de la Imagen, CCD, Jane Addams Hull House Museum, Comfort Station, Estudio Marte, and Laboratorio Arte Alameda.
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