Gabriela Aceves-Sepulveda

Teaching & research interests

• Media Art History
• Feminist Art and Epistemologies
• Research-Creation
• Aesthetics of Interaction
• Art and Activism
• Digital Humanities
• Latin American Art and its Diasporas
• Science and Technology Studies

About Gabriela’s Research and Art Practice

Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda is a media artist and cultural historian with a research focus on feminist media art, research-creation, Latin American art and its diasporas and global networks of artistic exchange. In SIAT, she directs the Critical Media Arts Studio (cMAS). She is the author of the award-winning book Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in post-1968 Mexico (Nebraska Press, 2019) and co-editor of Diffracting the North: Contemporary Latinx Canadian Experiences and Practices in Film, New Media, and Visual Arts(Concordia Press, 2025). Her research appears in various edited volumes in English and Spanish and has been published in the Feminist Media Histories Journal, Leonardo Music Journal and Media-N the Journal of the New Media Caucus, Technoetic Arts Journal, among others.  She produces video installations, sculptures, digital projects, print media and live performances that investigate the body as a site of cultural, gendered and techno-scientific inscriptions. Gabriela is a member of art/mamas, a Vancouver-based collective of artist mothers. She is also a member of the Committee on Women in the Arts from the Collage of Arts Association and she is part of the editorial board of the journal Feminist Art Practices and Research: Cosmos.

View the cMAS website to learn more about her work.

cMAS is an interdisciplinary research studio that experiments with research methods and theories to explore the implications of working across media and disciplines. Members of cMAS develop work that interrogate how old and new technologies have and continue to shape our sense of self and the environment informed by media studies, feminist epistemologies postcolonial, and decolonial theory.

If you are interested in joining cMAS visit our prospective students page.

• Aceves Sepúlveda, Gabriela, Analays Álvarez and Zaira Zarza, co-editors. (2025). Diffracting the North: Contemporary Latinx Canadian Experiences and Practices in Film, New Media, and Visual Arts. (Concordia University Press)
  
• Aceves Sepúlveda, Gabriela (2025-26). Diasporic Worldings at the Wilson Arts Plaza Urban Screen, Libby Leshgold Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, November 18, 2025–February 16, 2026
  
• Pederson, Claudia C., Aceves Sepúlveda, Gabriela and Pat Badani, co-editors (2025). “Artful Minds, Healing, and Well-Being: Women, Art, Science, and Technology in Latin America, 1970s to the Present.” In Leonardo 58 (6): 623–636. 
  
• Aceves Sepúlveda, Gabriela, Amanda Gutiérrez, Victoria Polti, Ana Mora and Laura Balboa. (2025). “Listening to Noise: Lines of Affinity and Feminist Sono-Techno-Political artivisms from the South”. In Situated Listening: Attending to the Unheard edited by Freya Zinovieff, Stephanie Loveless, Tullis Rennie and Morten Søndergaard (Routledge Press),15-32.
• Aceves Sepúlveda, Gabriela (2023).“Re-enacting/mediating/activating: Towards a collaborative feminist approach to research-creation.” Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, Special Issue: ‘Women in Art and Science’, 21 (2): 175–91. https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00110_1
• Zinovieff, F., Droumeva, M., & Aceves Sepúlveda, G. (2023). “Elephant in the Matrix: Ethical Practice and Decolonial Praxis in Sonic Research.” Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, 4(4), 325–347. https://doi:10.1525/res.2023.4.4.325

Visit cMAS website for recent publications, exhibitions and projects.

• PhD in History, University of British Columbia, Canada.
• MA in Art History, University of British Columbia, Canada.
• MFA in Fine Arts, York University, Canada.
• BA in Graphic Design, Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Mexico.