Paola Torres Nuñez del Prado

Paola Torres Núñez del Prado is a transdisciplinary artist and doctoral researcher who works with a variety of mediums, including textile assemblages and embroidery, painting, sound, text, digital media, interactive art, AI and video, exicliring their interconnections. She considers the boundaries and connections between haptics, visuals and sound, particularly in relation to the human voice, nature and synthetic elements, such as machine noises and digital glitches. A pioneer in developing DIY textile controllers as sound interfaces, Paola has been demonstrating and performing with them since 2007. Her work is rooted in complex systems thinking, where examining the connections and limits of the senses becomes a means to explore concepts such as interpretation, translation and misrepresentation. Through these explorations, she reflects on mediated sensory experiences and questions cultural hegemony within the history of technology and the arts. Her achievements include the Stockholm City Cultural Grant (2022), a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica (2021) and the Artists + Machine Intelligence Grant from Google Arts & Culture and Google AI (2020). She also won the Local Media: Amazonian Ecoregion: Vivo Arte.mov competition in Brazil (2013). Paola’s works are part of the collections of the Swedish Public Art Agency and the Malmö City Museum. She currently leads the Critical AI Working Group at Stockholm University of the Arts.