Join us for a Visiting Artist talk with Cristóbal Martínez as a part of the Summer 2026 Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
Cristóbal Martínez, PhD is Genizaro from Alcalde, his ancestors and family are from throughout Northern New Mexico including Española, Abiquiu, Velarde, Pó t'síí pangeh, Embudo and Dixon. He is an artist, digital media systems designer, publishing scholar, and Professor of Expanded Arts at Arizona State University.
Martínez co-founded the artist-hacker ensemble Radio Healer in 2003; joined the internationally acclaimed artist collective Postcommodity in 2009; and co-created, with post-Mexican artist-composer Guillermo Galindo, the experimental electronic music ensemble Red Culebra in 2018. Martínez has dedicated his life and career to interdisciplinary collaboration in contemporary art, and continues his work within these groups. In his collaborative and solo work as an artist, Martínez uses interdiscpilinary media to position generative metaphors intended to mediate complexity within varying spatial, temporal, social, cultural, political, ecological, and economic contexts. He aspires to make poetic an idea-driven, propositional, and self-implicating art that re-imagines sites of contest, controversy, conflict, and consequence into those of generative public pedagogy, curiosity, and discourse.