Bio

Luz María Sánchez is a transdisciplinary artist working across sound, language, image, and computational media. Through immersive installations, generative systems, multimedia environments, and sensing apparatuses, she explores how territory, power, memory, and environmental change are sensed, mediated, and contested through technological systems. Her practice spans more than two decades of artistic research across Europe and the Americas, investigating violence, disappearance, media infrastructures, environmental transformation, and the relationships between listening, language, and territory. Working between artistic research, sound art, and computational media, she develops projects that approach listening as a mode of inquiry and sensing. Recent works extend this trajectory through the development of environmental sensing apparatuses and what she describes as feral auralities: situated modes of listening emerging at the intersection of human, technological, and more-than-human agencies. These investigations range from long-term projects addressing violence and state power in Mexico to recent bodies of work developed in Norway that explore atmosphere, weather, landscape, terrestrial and aquatic environments, and environmental change. She is also a producer and curator, and a specialist in Samuel Beckett's work across electronic media. Sánchez holds a Doctorate in Art from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Sánchez received two Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mentions (2020, 2021). Her work and research have been featured by Bloomberg, PBS, and RTVE, and presented internationally, including Ars Electronica (Linz) and ZKM | Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe). In 2024, Arsenal Galeria Miejska (Poznań) presented a survey exhibition of her work (2006–2024), curated by Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, and a volume of essays on her practice is forthcoming. In 2025, she participated in Momentum 13 – The Nordic Biennale of Contemporary Art in Moss, Norway, the first edition dedicated to sound. Recent presentations also include Sound Passage (Denmark) and K-U-K (Trondheim). In 2026, Vis.[un]necessary force_4 was featured by invitation in Sounding Future's AudioSpace, an Ars Electronica-curated programme for immersive 3D sound environments. She currently develops new bodies of work focused on listening, environmental sensing, and territorial transformation in Trøndelag, Norway, including the Trøndelag Sky Archive and the Fjord Sensing Apparatus.