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Playa Bagdad/SpaceX: Transboundary Sonic Violence in a Colonial Void

October 13, 2026
BEE meet, Events, Lecture

Lecture by Jerónimo Reyes-Retana

Date: Monday, November 2, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM (CST)
Location: Online via Zoom
Zoom link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/82133545113

About the Speaker
Jerónimo Reyes-Retana (b. Mexico City) is a researcher, artist, educator, and community organizer whose practice employs expanded documentary forms to investigate the poetics of infrastructure and the politics of noise across what he terms Latin America’s colonial voids. His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions and organizations including Ars Electronica, Museo Tamayo, the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Co-Lab Projects, Black Cube, and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez. His writing and research have been published and presented by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), Storefront for Art and Architecture, Ellipses: Journal for Creative Research, La Escuela–MoMA PS1, the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), and Earshot: Agency for Sonic Investigation, among others. Reyes-Retana received the CIFO–Ars Electronica Award in 2025 and was selected as a member of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators in 2026. He holds an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin and is currently a PhD candidate in Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Visiting Professor at Colorado State University.