Claudia Robles-Angel is an audiovisual and new media artist born in Colombia and active worldwide. Her work and research cover different aspects of visual and sound art, which extend from audiovisual fixed-media compositions to performances interacting with biomedical signals via the usage of interfaces such as, for example, the EEG (electroencephalogram, measuring brain waves activity).
She finished studies in Fine Arts in 1990 at the University J. T. Lozano in Bogotá (Colombia). She pursued postgraduate studies such as: Film Animation (1992-1993) at the CFP (Milan-Italy); M.F.A in (1993-1995) at the École Supérieure d’Art Visuel / HEAD (Geneva- Switzerland) and Sound Art / Electronic Composition at the Folkwang University Essen (Germany) with Prof. Dirk Reith (2001-2004). She has been artist-in-residence in several outstanding institutions, for example at ZKM (Karlsruhe), KHM (Cologne) and more recently at the ICST – ZHdK in Zurich.
Her work has been presented in festivals and in group and solo exhibitions around the globe, for example, the ZKM Center in Karlsruhe; Enter3 in Prague, at the European Capitals of Culture Luxembourg and Romania; 2008 at KIBLA Multimedia Centre in Maribor; at the ICMC in Copenhagen and Montréal; at the Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, the SIGGRAPH Asia in Yokohama, Museo de Arte Moderno and ESPACIO Fundación Telefónica in Buenos Aires, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival NYCEMF in 2010 and every year since 2013; the SIGGRAPH Asia in Yokohama; the Re-New Festival in Copenhagen; the NIME Conference in Oslo; ISEA Istanbul, at LEAP Space for media Art in Berlin, CMMR Marseille and Plymouth, at CAMP Festival – Salon Suisse, an official collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale,at the Audio Art Festival Cracow, at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center New York City, at SKOP Festival Frankfurt, at Nabta Art Center Cairo, Museum of Contemporary Art Bogotá, MADATAC Festival in Madrid, IK Stichting in Vlissingen, at Tivolivredenburg during the ICMC in Utrecht, at Die Digitale Düsseldorf, Sonic Visions Tübingen, at the ISEA in Manizales, ADAF Athens Digital Art Festival and and more recently at ISEA in Durban.