Cristóbal Martinez

Biography

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Cristóbal Martínez, born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was raised in the Española Valley community of Alcalde. He is a digital arts practitioner, and Media, Arts and Sciences PhD student at the School of Arts, Media and Engineering (AME) at Arizona State University. As a member of the K-12 Education Research Group at AME, Cristóbal is an indigenous media practitioner who researches and collaborates with indigenous communities to construct culturally sensible social environments that encourage sustained creative interpersonal behaviors.

A key component of Cristóbal’s work is to utilize and develop indigenous media frameworks for the recognition and practice of indigenous sovereignty and the development of cross-cultural partnerships. These frameworks are applied through Chicano rasquache traditions to innovate culturally sensible electronic technologies through creative circuit bending, adaptive-reuse, appropriation, hacking, engineering, reflection, and art-making for the development of living cultural implements used for socio-cultural work and performance.

As a digital media artist and cultural worker, Cristóbal focuses upon composing and producing music arrangements and experiential media places that are tangible, embodied, bio-regionally embedded, and culturally situated while drawing upon the knowledge systems of his Northern New Mexican heritage. His research and creative work has been published and presented in venues throughout North America, and in Europe.

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