Marcela Armas
Born in Mexico City, 1976 and lives in Mexico City and San Miguel de Allende Guanajuato.
Marcela Armas works at the intersection of art, science and technology. She explores the poetic potential of materials and mechanisms as a starting point to reflect on issues that highlight the conflicting nature of social relations and the ways in which humans act from a utilitarian conception of life. She is interested in observing processes and material phenomena – their transformations, overflow or sound emissions – as manifestations of thought. Her machines and devices are built through an inquiry into the nature of the materials from which they are made: the machine as meaning, matter as a vehicle for history.
In the realm of the sensible, she collaborates with artist friends, researchers and inventors such as Gilberto Esparza, Arcangelo Constantini, Ariel Guzik, Shaday Larios, Santiago Itzcóatl, Iván Puig, the collective Bios Ex Machina, and Elena Álvarez-Buylla, among others.
She holds a BFA from the University of Guanajuato and an MFA from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. She has been supported by the National Foundation for the Arts in Mexico for the development and research of new media projects. She has also been an artist-in-residence at the New Media Research Centre in Mexico City and was supported by the Arte Actual Bancomer–MACG 2009 programme. Together with Gilberto Esparza, she directed experimental electronics workshops for the Fundación Telefónica VIDA 10 in Peru, Argentina, Chile and Mexico.
She received the ARCO/BEEP Electronic Art Award at ARCO Madrid 2012 for her project Máquina Stella, and the production incentive award granted by Fundación Telefónica in Spain.
Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, North and South America, Europe and Asia.
