Yair López

Summary

Yair López is doing a P.h.D. in science, and holds a Master of Science degree in Geophysics along with a Communications and Multimedia Engineering degree. With this scientific background, Yair combines technological errors and seismic data with poetry to create audio-visual works. He works with still and moving images using field recordings to compose soundscapes. As a researcher, he has published scientific articles in the Seismological Research Letters and is the author of the book: EARTHQUAKES DO NOT KILL, BUILDINGS DO.

Yair has exhibited in Mexico, Spain, Japan, USA, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Portugal, Holland, Italy, Germany, Finland, and Northern Ireland. He founded “sociacusia” in 2008, a collaboration between Mexican and International sound artists, improvisers, and electroacoustic composers. He is part of the artistic committee of PECDA Jalisco in the category of Cultural Management.

Yair collaborated with other members of the cohort to develop the project proposal STRING THEORY. You can read more about this project proposal on the Mediale website.

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