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Juan Eduardo Flores holding a cardboard and paper sculpture in front of shelves of parts and prototypes

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Juan Eduardo Flores was born in Del Rio, Texas, and raised on the southeast side of San Antonio, where he got his start in high school making community mosaic-tile murals with other students through The Contemporary at Blue Star’s MOSAIC program. He received his BA in Art from Connecticut College in 2016 as a fellow of the Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology. As the recipient of the Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship, he then spent over a year in Mexico City developing a sound art practice, and in 2023 he received his MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

He has exhibited at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria; Voltaje – Salón de Arte y Tecnología in Bogotá, Colombia; Centro Cultural de España in Mexico City; Darmstädter Sezession in Darmstadt, Germany; and Hong Museum in Wenzhou, China, as well as with SAIC at EXPO Chicago.

He currently teaches new media topics in the School of Art & Art History at the University of Illinois Chicago as an Adjunct Associate Professor.

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Artist statement

Working with motion and sound, I follow messages on their way from point A to point B: what they keep along the way, and what they leave behind. The artifact, the record, and the archive matter less to me than the systems that carry them. I stress-test those systems, looking for unlikely ways to store, process, and transform signals, and listening for noise and decay. If information is measured by surprise,1 the mundane, the ordinary, the everyday should carry almost none, yet they can hold a great deal in very little; that is where I find wonder.2

1. Claude E. Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication

2. Philip Fisher, Wonder, the Rainbow, and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences