Lena Ortega (aka Leena Lee) is a sound artist, researcher, and designer whose line of inquiry joins the concepts of resonance and embodied experience in the relationship between non-human and human animals and their environment. Member of the Art+Science interdisciplinary research group of The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) who has been working in the intersection of art, science and humanities for ten years.

She holds a PhD in Art History a Masters in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and a specialization in Media and Design for Print from San Francisco State University. She has been a visiting artist and researcher in Spain, Portugal, Germany, and Finland.  Has written articles in collective books of design and philosophy. Teacher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and La Salle University. In 2010 she was awarded the AOTS scholarship in Japan.

In design, she specializes in trend research and design theory. In art, she currently investigates the problem of representation and the experience of nature exploring the intersections between nature and culture. Presently the host of the radio show: Surfaceless, the skin in not the limit, dedicated to the active practice of listening which presents work done mostly by women in the field of sound ecology, soundscape ecology and experimental music.

lena.ortega.atristain@gmail.com

LINKS

My radio programs

Sin Superficie and Atmósferas Armónicas

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My research group

Arte+Ciencia

Arte+Ciencia FaceBook

Vida Maquinaria

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Latest Residencies

Bioartica Residency

Cultivamos Cultura

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SOME PRESS

ComitanCatorce

https://issuu.com/en10minutos/docs/_en10minutos56

http://www.replica21.com/archivo/articulos/g_h/639_galindo_comitan14.html

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Bioartefactos, degranar lentamente un maíz. MACO, Oaxaca, Mexico 2014.

http://we-make-money-not-art.com/bioartefactos_desgranar_lentam/

http://letrasexplicitas.com/arte-ciencia/

http://gastv.mx/tag/maco/

http://gastv.mx/16980/

http://www.noticiasnet.mx/portal/oaxaca/cultura/galerias/216606-maiz-no-es-lo-que-parece

https://www.veoverde.com/2014/07/exposicion-de-arte-que-pone-en-evidencia-a-los-transgenicos-utilizados-en-el-maiz/ 

En el umbral ( y a solo a unos pasos de la dimensión sublime de la belleza. Museo Universitaio del Chopo, Mexico City 2014.

http://www.chopo.unam.mx/exposiciones/Umbral.html

http://www.chilango.com/arte/expo/2014/09/02/en-el-umbral-y-solo-a-unos-pasos-de-la-dimension-sublime-de-la-belleza

http://melimelo.com.mx/solo-a-unos-pasos-de-la-dimension-sublime-de-la-belleza/

http://www.coc4ine.com/2014/07/exposicion-de-tematica-gay-en-el-chopo.html

http://www.notiese.org/notiese.php?ctn_id=7470

Sin origen, sin semilla, MuAC, MUCA ROMA, Mexico City, 2012-2013.

http://www.arteenlared.com/latinoamerica/mexico/sin-origen-sin-semilla-arte-biotecnologico-y-transgenerico-en-el-muca-roma.html

http://www.saladeprensacdc.unam.mx/index.php/direccion-de-artes-visuales/item/1590-ultimos-dias-de-la-muestra-sin-origen-sin-semilla-en-el-muca-roma

http://eleconomista.com.mx/entretenimiento/2012/12/05/caminos-cruzados-ciencia-arte

http://www.arts-history.mx/semanario/index.php?id_nota=22112012121530

http://herder.com.mx/es/topic-article/primera-exposicion-de-arte-biotecnologico-y-arte-transgenico-en-mexico

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