Aleyda Rocha Sepulveda

Aleyda Rocha is a Mexican artist and researcher interested in exploring and evincing the everyday practices of extractivism of data, bodies, experiences intrinsically linked with colonialism and the colonial project. Currently a scientific researcher in the Department of Digital Humanities in the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and research collaborator in Ars Electronica. Her research negotiates the histories of nonconsensual extractive language terminologies assigned to narratives of “otherness”, such as immigration, which is present in our everyday language, space, environment, and sound.