Annabel Castro
DXARTS, University of Washington
PhD Candidate
Mexico
Annabel Castro is a dual citizen of Mexico and the United States. She uses electronic media in the production of her artwork. The overlapping of geographic, virtual and mental spaces, landscape as trajectory and identity are recurrent themes in her work. She has recently contributed to the academic journal Art & Politics of Identity of the University of Murcia and designed for the Seminar of Studies on Forensic Discourse at the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico). She has received the PBEE grant from the National Foundation for Arts and Culture of Mexico, the La Paz award from the International Art Biennial SIART in Bolivia, the Object Art first prize from the Third National Biennale Puebla de los Ángeles in Mexico and the Open Territories Commission of mARTadero Culture Center in Bolivia. Her artwork has been shown among other venues at the Transmediale in Berlin, the Ethnography and Folklore Museum of Bolivia, the International Electronic Arts Festival Transitio MX in Mexico City, the Contemporary Cultural Center of Barcelona, the Contemporary Art Museum of Santiago in Chile, the Jyväskylä Art Museum of Finland, Hiroshima Art Center in Japan and the Contemporary Art & Design Museum of Costa Rica. Castro lives in Cuernavaca and Mexico City. She completed a MSc in Art and Technology at Chalmers University in Sweden and a BA in Graphic Design at a the UNAM where she also worked at their Institute for Aesthetic Research. She is at present a DXARTS PhD Candidate at the University of Washington and coordinator of the transdiciplinary undergrad department Steam Lab at Centro university in Mexico City.