Luz Maria Sanchez Cardona
Professor Agregatat Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Luz María Sánchez Cardona
Transdisciplinary Artist, Scholar, Author, and Curator
Focus Areas: Sound Art, Digital Art, Media Studies, Beckett Studies, Decolonial Practices, Transdisciplinary Artistic Research
Luz María Sánchez Cardona is a transdisciplinary artist whose work integrates artistic creation, scholarly research, curatorial projects, and media production. Her artworks have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions at major cultural institutions across Europe and the Americas. She has received significant recognition, including two Honorary Mentions from the Prix Ars Electronica for Vis.[un]necessary force, the Climate Change Artist Commission by the Land Heritage Institute in the U.S., and the 1st Artist Prize at the Biennial of Borders in Mexico.
As a scholar, she explores the intersections of arts, sciences, technologies, humanities, and politics. She has authored five monographs and contributed to ten book chapters and nine journal articles, with a significant focus on the electronic media works of Samuel Beckett and sound art in the 20th century. Her publications explore topics ranging from the role of sound in Beckett’s media productions to broader questions of artistic and technological inscription in contemporary practices.
Sánchez has contributed to international academic publications and delivered keynote addresses at leading institutions, including the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Freie Universität Berlin, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, and the University of the Arts London. Sánchez Cardona has taught by invitation at institutions such as Concordia University (Montreal), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), the University of Łódź and Aalborg University (Erasmus Mundus), and the University of Barcelona.
Her leadership in transdisciplinary discourse is reflected in her scholarly, artistic, and curatorial initiatives. She founded BECKETT-MEXICO, a research and curatorial platform that collaborated with Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), The Samuel Beckett Society, and Trinity College Dublin. She founded REA MX (Red Ecología Acústica_México), a platform promoting acoustic ecology, and ACHC (Art, Sciences, Humanities, and Citizenship), a transdisciplinary research network at UAM.
Sánchez Cardona is also a member of the Noema editorial board, the pioneering online magazine that explores the relationships between technology, science, culture, and society. She was the initiator and chair of LASER Talks MEX, the first Leonardo LASER Talks chapter in a Spanish-speaking country and organised and led the Leonardo 50 Mexico international conference in 2018.