Mexico
Durango, Mexico, 1976. Lives and works in San Miguel de Allende and Mexico City.
Currently she is researching the magnetic properties of minerals and their possibilities for storing information through sound as a means of interpretation and induction. Her work articulates disciplines, techniques, work processes and research to inquire into the relationships of society with matter, energy, space-time and the construction of memory.
BFA by the University of Guanajuato and studies in the Polytechnic University in Valencia, Spain. She was awarded by ARCO/BEEP Electronic Art in the Arco Madrid Fair 2012. Prize for Iberoamerican Production VIDA 16.0 of Telefonica Foundation of Spain. Member of the National System of Art Creators in Mexico. Program of Support for Research in New Media of the Multimedia Center of the National Center for the Arts in Mexico.
She has participated in Mercosur Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2009 and Habana 11th Biennial “Social practices and imaginaries”, 2012. Directed with Gilberto Esparza, experimental electronics workshops Fundación Telefónica VIDA 10 in Peru, Argentina, Chile and Mexico. Recently she directed Implant, a public space art project based in Denver and Mexico City, developed for the Biennial of the Americas. Armas is part of Triodo collective with Gilberto Esparza and Iván Puig. With Arcángelo Constantini directs the sound art cycle Meditatio Sonus. Currently she is member of the National Art System in Mexico.
Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, North and South America, Europe, India and Moscu.
