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Manuel Rocha

Manuel Rocha
Born in 1963 in Mexico City, Manuel Rocha Iturbide is a transdisciplinary and intermedia artist. His work has been traversed by science and technology, philosophy and social anthropology, working in disciplines such as sculpture, installation, photography, drawing, graphic design and painting, as well as instrumental and electroacoustic music. His creative lines go through synesthesia, conceptualism, immersion, chance, listening to the environment, improvisation and constant experimentation with the hybridization of different media and languages. He also works as a teacher and researcher, tasks that have inserted me into an intermedial process of interaction between knowledge and creation, especially with the theme of historical memory mediated by technology, obsolescence, and the archive as an art form. He studied composition at the ENM in the University of Mexico (1981-1989) and photography at the Taller de los lunes workshop with Pedro Meyer (1985-1989). In 1991 he finishes an MFA in electronic music and composition at Mills College, Oakland California. In Paris, he takes a one-year course in composition and computer music at IRCAM, where he studies with Bryan Fernyhough (1991-92). In 1992 he starts his doctoral thesis in the field of Science and Technologie of the Arts at the University of Paris VIII with a thesis related to quantum physics, sound and art, and he worked as a researcher at IRCAM developing Gist. He has been a professional active artist since 1989 and has created installations, sculptures, photography, graphic works and intermedia art works presented at important international galleries and museums such as the Crousel gallery (Paris, 1993), Artists Space in NY USA (1997), the 1998 Sidney Biennale in Australia (1998), Project Rooms at the ARCO art fair (Madrid, 1999), SURGE gallery (Tokyo, 2000), Kyoto Art Center in (Kyoto, 2001), Avatar (Quebec, 2003), Koldo de Mixtelena (San Sebastián Spain, 2007), McBean Gallery (San Francisco California 2010),

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