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Claudia
X. Valdes is an intermedia artist and educator concerned
primarily with issues of time, memory, and perception.
She was born in Santiago, Chile.
Valdes
received an MFA and was awarded the Eisner Prize in
Art from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001.
She was an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center
for the Arts from 2001-2003. Her work has been exhibited
internationally including at venues such as: the Institute
of Contemporary Arts, London; Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago; WRO Center for Media Art, Wroclaw, Poland;
the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; the UCR/California
Museum of Photography; Art in General, New York; Centro
Multimedia/Centro National de las Artes, Mexico; and
the Werkstätten und Kulturhaus, Austria. Recent
awards include an Honorable Mention at the 2006 Transmediale
festival for art and digital culture in Berlin, Germany.
Valdes developed and taught digital media art courses at
UC Berkeley, the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental
Media at the University of Washington, Seattle, UC Santa
Cruz, and at Mills College and Stanford University as
a Visiting Artist. Academic honors include a Summer
Institute in the Arts and Humanities faculty appointment
within the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities
at the University of Washington.
She is Assistant Professor of Electronic
Arts and Associate Director of ARTS Lab [Art, Research,
Technology & Science Laboratory] at the University
of New Mexico.
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UPCOMING
EVENTS + NEWS:
[January 2009]
SOLO EXHIBITION
LAWRIMORE Project
Seattle, WA
[October 2008]
artwork included in UK book:
Human Futures: Art in an
Age of Uncertainty
edited by Dr. Andiy Miah

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