PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023 — Strategic EdTech Programs
Ellucian2022 — Present — Special Projects
Cosmodrome2022 — Present — Program Management & Curator
Radical Sounds Latin America · Berlin2019–2022 — Creative Strategy & Research Lead
Austrian Academy of Sciences · Vienna2019–2022 — Research Affiliate
Ars Electronica · Vienna2020 — Climate & Public Engagement Consultant
Hetco Design · Stockholm2019 — Design Researcher Consultant
Wikimedia Foundation · Stockholm2017–2018 — Research Residency, Project Leader
La Wayaka Current · Oslo2014–2016 — Creative Business Partner
Google · Mexico City2013–2014 — Senior Project Manager
TERAN/TBWA · Mexico CitySOLO EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
The sting of the bee lingers, and the bird vocalizes a new tone
An(Other) South Festival · Jan 2023 · ViennaThe Anti Work Fair
Wienwoche Festival · Sep 2022 · ViennaTaking a Memory Out for a Walk
Ars Electronica · Sep 2021 · LinzAn Invitation to Unuttered Rest
Sonic Territories Festival · Jul 2021 · ViennaThese words are not mine, who gave them away?
National Library of Norway · May 2021 · OsloThe Lone Descent into a Grit of Crime Scenes
Archipiélagos en Red · Nov 2020 · Buenos AiresAlgorithm Inventarium: methoda-thon
Ars Electronica · Sep 2020 · LinzGROUP EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
Murmuro Festival — Jury Member
Sep 2025 · Mexico CityTo be in listening: the worlds from the in-between
Radical Sounds Latin America · Nov 2022 · BerlinTerritorializing from Within
Secretariat of Culture — Mother Language Day · Feb 2021 · Mexico CityTerritorializing from Within
Radical Sounds Latin America · Curated by Ale Hop · Oct 2020 · BerlinYou are the Dream of Poles Awoken
"Wild Within" · Curated by Sofie Iversen · Jul–Aug 2018 · LondonEDUCATION
2020 — M.Sc Sustainable Technology
KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Stockholm2018 — Cultural Heritage & Policy in a Digital Age
University of Bergen · Norway2017 — Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
Copenhagen2012 — B.A. Digital Art & Multimedia Business
CEDIM · MonterreySELECTED ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
2022 — Inclusion and Exclusion in Citizen Science
TU Graz · Austria2021 — Violence: PARSE Biennial
University of Gothenburg · Sweden2021 — Symbiotic bonds: An algorithmic Soundwalk
ECLAS · Vienna2020 — Claiming Space Through Language
GI_Forum · Vienna2019 — Claiming Space Through Language
15th Intl. Conf. Location-Based Services · Vienna2019 — FeedForward
THE Port Hackathon · CERN · SwitzerlandAleyda Rocha is an artist, researcher, cultural producer, and educator. Her work deals with the political, social, and cultural everyday practices of extractivism of data, bodies, experiences intrinsically linked with colonialism and the colonial project. She thinks about sound and movement as a philosophical toolset to reflect on unuttered histories and unearthed linkages, and as a poetic means to document our personal, ecological, and global scale struggles in the 21st century.
Dwelling from her positionality as an immigrant and her transborder experiences, she uses archiving, documentation, the internet, technology, and notably participatory performance, to challenge the dogmas of western society. Her work questions the contradictions and perceptions on labor, heritage, language, and their interwovenness with the voice and how it is an aesthetic as well as a political manifestation and performance of subjectivity and identity.
contact: aleyda [at] gmail.com
edtech research work
(full cv upon request)