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Amor Muñoz, Visual Artist Amor Munoz @amormunozm combines older craft traditions with the interactivity of social media and open-source software development. Her work involves textile work, performance, drawing, sound and experimental electronics to explore the relationship between technology and society, and creates a new technical context for manual labor, giving a warm radiance to cold code and diagrams. She is interested in how technology affects manufacturing systems and how manual labor and crafts change in a contemporary global economy. Her research focuses on the history of technology, language systems, technological obsolescence, crafts, and production systems. In her talk, Munoz will present past projects including her mobile factories, textile memories, tangible music interfaces, and will materialize new patterns, sounds with crafts on the fly. Amor Muñoz studied Law at the UNAM and at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. She has been a resident of the 2014 program of Nordic Artists’ Center Dale (Norway), in 2015 at Kultur Kontakt (Vienna), in 2017 at the Bauhaus Dessau (Germany) and recently at the Google Arts and Culture Jacquard Artist Residency (Paris) . Her work has been exhibited in various museums, galleries and festivals, such as: SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA); 21 Haus, Belvedere (Vienna, Austria); National Art Center, Tokyo (Japan); Mobilier National (París); MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (Spain); XIII Bienal de la Habana (Cuba); OK Center / Prix Ars Electronica CyberArts Exhibition (Linz, Austria); Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico city); Palácio das Artes em Belo Horizonte (Brazil); The Sciences and Arts University Museum /MUCA ROMA -UNAM (Mexico City); Craft Contemporary Museum (Los Angeles, California); Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico city), among others. In 2012 she received an Honorable Mention in the category of Hybrid Art in the Prix Ars Electronica and in 2013 she received the New Face Award of the Japan Media Arts Festival. Her work has been documented and published in different media such as New York Times, ARTE Journal, Deutsche Welle, etc. -------------------------- Arts + Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA is made possible thanks to support from the Big Ideas Courses Program in the College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley and from generous supporters of Berkeley Arts + Design. Technical support and presentation offered by UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science, Division of Arts & Humanities. For more information, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu/thursdays.