Routes & Roots | Origin

About the Participants

• Paloma Vianey Artist

  Paloma Vianey is an interdisciplinary artist from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, who lives and works in Washington, D.C. She studied Art History at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Cornell University. Her work has been supported by grants and awards from institutions including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior, FONCA, and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
  
  In her artistic practice, Vianey explores the intersections of memory, territory, and identity through the lens of migration and her connection to Ciudad Juárez. Using experimental painting and photographic archives from the border city, she reflects on belonging, urban transformation, and collective memory. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Phillips Collection, the Instituto Cultural Mexicano, and the El Paso Museum of Art.
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• Corazón De Robota Artist

  In her artistic research, she explores noise as an acoustic, social, cultural, political, and spiritual phenomenon, weaving together contemporary technologies and ancestral knowledge. Growing up between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes, she came to understand noise as a physical event that encompasses electromagnetic waves emitted by both natural and human-made sources. Through the development of open-source hardware, DIY electronics, and e-textiles, she creates antennas, synthesizers, and experimental radios that investigate the relationships between technology, ritual, and perception.
  
  Since 2013, she has researched ancient pre-Hispanic computing systems, incorporating speculation and Andean science fiction into installations, performances, and concerts. She also fosters transfeminist and technofeminist practices, founded the platform Cyborgrrls, and advocates for gender equity and technological sovereignty through collaborative spaces for learning, experimentation, and creation.
  
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• KH Katrin Hansing Moderator

  She is a Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York (CUNY). As a cultural anthropologist, she has spent the past 25 years conducting both empirical and policy-oriented research in Cuba and on the Cuban diaspora. Her primary areas of research include migration, origins and ethnicity, social inequality, and memory.
  
  She has published extensively on these topics and received numerous prestigious fellowships and awards for her work. In addition, she serves as an advisor to governments, foundations, and non-governmental organizations, and her research is frequently featured in the media. She earned her doctorate from the University of Oxford and is the curator of the photo exhibition Los Que Quedan: Cubans Who Remain on the Island during the Current Exodus.