Juan José Rivas Zuñiga
Mexico D.F., 1975
Period of residence: July – December 2004
Visual and sonorous artist specialized in electronic media. His works employ different techniques to build a discourse through the translation, the mistake, the obstruction and the interference inside artistic languages. Some of the conceptual approaches in Juan José’s work are to define the impossible, to reveal the hidden, to articulate the untold, to evidence the truth as an established lie, …
Nowadays, he’s a visual communication teacher in Universidad Centro, a member of the planning and evaluation council of Transitio_mx (a meeting for the electronic arts and video), he takes part of the electronic arts project Dorkbot in Mexico City and he is the artistic director of VOLTA, sessions of sonorous improvisation and experimentation.
Juan José’s work has been shown in different international festivals in Germany, Argentina, Canada, Spain, United States, Japan, Portugal, Morocco and Mexico, and he has also collaborated and sheared scenario with musicians and sonorous artists as: Elliott Sharp, Zeena Parkins, Ikue Mori, Joker Nies, Bloodyminded, Angelica Castello, Burkhard Stlang, Dan Deacon, Drew Daniels, Manrico Montero, Rogelio Sosa, Arthur Henry Fork, Mario de Vega, Alfredo Borboa, Antonio Dominguez, Ricardo Dorantes, Remi Alvarez, Fernando Vigueras, Tuna Pase, Tiffany Defoe, Andrea Neumann, Wobbly, Shayna Dunkelman, Gary Smith, Billy Roisz, Isabelle duthoit, Chris Cogburn, among others.
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