By Francisco Peyret
Amor Muñoz works through textiles, performance, drawing, sound and experimental electronics to explore the relationship between technology and society, showing a special interest in the interaction between material forms and social discourse. She is particularly interested in how technology affects manufacturing systems and how manual labor and crafts are changing in a contemporary global economy. Her research focuses on the history of technology, language systems, technological obsolescence, appropriate technologies, craft and production systems. His process is linked to DIY strategies and the Maker movement.
Amor studied law at UNAM and at the Academy of Fine Arts in New Orleans. She is currently a member of the National System of Art Creators in Mexico, funded by the Ministry of Culture. She has been artist in residence at the Nordic Artists Center in Dale, Norway; at Kultur Kontakt, Vienna; at Bauhaus Dessau, Germany; and at Google Arts & Culture, Paris. His work has been shown in museums, galleries and biennials such as 21 Haus, Belvedere (Austria); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA (USA); MUAC- Museo Universitario de Arte Universitario de San Francisco (USA). ); MUAC- Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico); Center for Heritage, Arts and Textiles, CHAT (Hong Kong); the National Art Center, Tokyo (Japan); OK Center (Austria); Havana Biennial (Cuba); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (Spain) Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico) and Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (Serbia). His work has received several awards and honorable mentions in competitions and biennials such as Prix Ars Electronica, Japan Media Arts Festival, Bienal de Cuenca, Mentes QUO + Discovery Channel, among others. Her work has been documented and published in different media such as New York Times, ARTE Journal, Deutsche Welle, etc.
Amor Muñoz’s work has been part of group exhibitions in Mexico City, Austria, Spain, Brazil and the United States. She has received a grant from the Centro Nacional de las Artes (Cenart) through the Programa de Apoyo a la Producción e Investigación del Centro Multimedia, as well as the Jóvenes Creadores program of the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Fonca).
At the same time, Amor Muñoz has dedicated herself to teaching, giving workshops on electronics in textiles in Mexico, the United States, Chile, Ireland, Japan and Colombia, among other countries, as well as lectures and round table discussions on art and activism in forums such as EyeO Festival (USA), Eletronika Festival (Brazil), Japan Media Arts Festival (Tokyo), TAG CDMX (Mexico) and academic institutions such as the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the University of Arts in Linz.
Matter and Memory
This project is a reflection on coding systems, language and memory, in this case, memory as a container of data. It is inspired by the magnetic core. computer memories of the 50’s and 60’s and the works of Anni Albers (Codes, 1962). During his residency at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Muñoz created a graphic language based on binary code, using it to produce a series of textiles containing coded information as a way of generating textile memories. This work can be seen at Yam Gallery, Instituto Allende.
