Alejandra Pérez
Head – Research Axis: AESTHETICS, DIGITAL OBJECTS AND HACKING
Email: alejandra.perez@posteo.net
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alejandra-Perez-Nunez
Alejandra Pérez (Chile, 1972) Bachelor of Aesthetics from the Universidad Catolica de Chile (1996-1998), Psychologist from the Universidad Catolica de Chile(1991-1996), Master of Arts in Media Design from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, Netherlands (2003-2005) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Creative Media from the University of Westminster in London, United Kingdom (2014-2020). Among the scholarships and distinctions, she has been awarded the CREAM scholarship for doctoral studies at the University of Westminster in the U.K.(2014-2018) and Fondo de Fomento Audiovisual from the National Council of Culture and Arts in Chile (2008). Among the individual exhibitions stand out Hacking Antarctica, Museum of Contemporary Art MAC Espacio Alta Tensión, Santiago (2019). Amongst international conferences,, Music and Hacking at L’Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique / musique IRCAM, Paris (2017) and collective international exhibitions like Other Sounds, Other Landscapes, curated by Leandro Pisano and Antonio Arévalo at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Roma MACRO (2017); The 15th International Festival of Extreme Experimental Music «Noise and Fury DOM Center, Moscow (2016).
Projects
Seminar: Ondas tenues. Taller de jaqueo de ondas, micro-radio y biomitografía 2022. Doctorado de estudios interdisciplinarios sobre Pensamiento y Sociedad DEI
Role: Main facilitator
Seminar: Jaqueo, bricolaje y política hacker. September-November 2021. Doctorado de estudios interdisciplinarios sobre Pensamiento y Sociedad DEI
Role: Main facilitator
Projects in progress
Quintero
Role: Artist, researcher, main developer
Implementation period: 2022
Work in progress to be shown at Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende MSSA, at the exhibition Valle de Chili _ crisis ecopolítica crítica (critical ecopolitical crisis) curated by jocelyn Muñoz.
Antarctica 1961-1996
Role: Artist researcher, main developer.
Implementation period: 2021
Description: The main aim of this project is to complete a series of interactive maps of Antarctica making use of embroidery and sensors. These designed objects are ensembled to set into play fictional narrations. Antarctica 1961-1996 was created initially for the exhibition Otros Sonidos, Otros Paisajes (2017) curated by Leandro Pisano and Antonio Arévalo for the Contemporary Art Museum in Rome (MACRO).
Selected Publications
Book Chapters
- Alcantara-Pla, M. & Perez Nuñez, A. Energías semióticas en el espacio público (2017). In Espacios sonoros 2016: la ciudad como lugar de experimentación, creación e investigación plurisensorial (P 259-269)
- FLOSS from a southern perspective in FLOSS and Art Mansoux, Aymeric; De Valk, Marloes eds. (2015) Mute Publishing. United Kingdom. http://flossart.randomlab.net/pdf/FLOSS%2BArt.pdf
Conferences and paper sessions
- Hacking Antarctica. (2017) Music and Hacking conference. L’Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique / musique IRCAM, Paris.
- Pure Data as a feminist tool for meaningful learning (2007) Pure Data convention. L’Ouevre ouverte http://artengine.ca/~catalogue-pd/10-Nunez.pdf
Independent publishing
- Recalibrating Vision in the Rainforest (2018) Alejandra Pérez Núñez and Pablo Mollenhauer. Hyphen Journal, open-access, University of Westminster http://hy-phen.space/journal/issue-1/mollenhauer-perez-recalibrating-vision-in-the-rainforest-803-2/#2016
- Writing Antarctica, on detecting word-virus background radiation in Antarctica (2016). In ”The Laboratory Planet”. Issue5, Xenopolitics of the Anthropocene.
Art Comissions
Perturbación Permanente. Radio Tsonami, Valparaíso, 2017
http://radiotsonami.org/radio-festival/programa-obras-radiales-festival-tsonami-2017/?pcid=5190
«Un elemento en comun alfa» Radio Museo Reina Sofia RSS. Madrid, 2014
https://radio.museoreinasofia.es/alejandra-perez
“Kashaskan noise andino desde la Paz hasta Antártica” para Kunstradio Vienna, 2013