(Guadalajara, 1976)
Karla Jasso holds a PhD in Art History from the Faculty of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University, UNAM. For over fifteen years her work has explored the history of technology as well as the language of new media and art. Jasso is a member of the curatorial and programming committee at MUAC, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City. She was curator in chief at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, INBA (2007-2013). Selected curatorial projects include: Tania Candiani’sFive variations of phonic circumstances and a pause (2012) which obtained the Prix Ars Electronica “Award of Distinction” (Linz, Austria, 2013); Dynamic (In)Position organized by Festival de la Ciudad de México at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Centro Cultural España and MUAC in collaboration with Ars Electronica (2010); Contra Flujo: Independence and Revolution, Rubin Center, University of Texas, El Paso (2010) and Distortions: Contemporary Media Art From Mexico, The College of New Jersey (2009). Author of Arte y Tecnología: Arqueología, Dialéctica y Mediación (WebPress, 2014), co-author of (ready)Media: Towards an Archeology of Media and Invention in Mexico (INBA, 2012); Machina- Medium-Apparatus, (in press, 2015).