Juanjosé Rivas

Juanjosé Rivas is a Mexican transmedia artist working across sound, experimental music, performance, drawing, and installation. His practice investigates the relationships between technological systems, material processes, and perception, approaching sound as a medium through which different forms of knowledge and experience can intersect. Improvisation remains central to his methodology, alongside processes of translation, error, and interference between artistic languages. Rather than treating technology as a neutral instrument, Rivas explores its capacity to destabilize established relationships between sound, image, memory, and representation. His work frequently moves between documentary material and speculative construction, examining how listening can produce forms of recognition that resist fixed interpretations.

Alongside his artistic practice, Rivas has played an important role in developing Mexico City’s experimental sound scene through VOLTA, a long-running series dedicated to improvisation and sonic experimentation. He has participated in international residencies at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Matadero in Madrid, and Hangar in Barcelona. He teaches sound art and digital media at CENTRO University in Mexico City and is a member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte for the 2025–2028 period.