Luz María Sánchez Cardona is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, and scholar. She holds a doctorate in Art from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Sánchez Cardona is the recipient of two consecutive Honorary Mentions at Prix Ars Electronica: 2021 in Sound Art and Digital Musics category and 2020 in Digital Communities category. Her books include Sonar. Navigation/Location of Sound in the XX Century Contemporary Art Practices (Spanish. UAM: 2018), Electronic Samuel Beckett: Cochlear Samuel Beckett (Spanish. UAM: 2016), The Technological Epiphanies of Samuel Beckett: Machines of Inscription and Audiovisual Manipulation (Bilingual. Fonca: 2016), as well as several books and journal chapters.
Sánchez Cardona’s artwork operates in the political sphere. Among the curators Sánchez has worked with are Amanda de la Garza, Amada Cruz, Yuko Hasegawa, Ryszard Kluszczynski, and Morten Søndergaard/Peter Weibel. Sánchez Cardona’s artworks have been presented at Ars Electronica, Linz; ZKM, Karlsruhe; WRO Art Center, Wroclaw; Centro de Cultura Contemporánea CCCB, Barcelona; Illinois State Museum, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogota; and in Mexico City at the Museum of Modern Art, and Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo MUAC.
Sánchez Cardona is an Artistic Member of the National System of Art Creators (SNCA) and a Member of the National System of Scientific Research (SNI) in Mexico. She was Head of the Department of Arts and Humanities (2015 to 2019) at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Director of television Channel 22 International (2009-2013) and Director of Radio Universidad de Guadalajara (2008).
Sánchez Cardona is the Beckett-México platform founder, which hosted the 4th International Conference of the Samuel Beckett Society (2018). Following by the organisation of two international conferences: Beckett-Mexico [Encounter 01] (2019) and Beckett-Mexico [Encounter 02] (2020). www.beckett-mexico.org