About
Anni Garza Lau is a media artist and researcher whose practice examines how emerging technologies transform the ways we perceive, inhabit, and negotiate the world. Through installations, interactive systems, artificial intelligence, bioart, speculative design, and digital media, her work investigates the political and affective dimensions of computational systems, asking how they shape identity, agency, memory, and the body.
For her, technology is not a neutral instrument but a cultural infrastructure that continuously produces new forms of behavior, knowledge, and power. Her projects often place audiences within technological systems that reveal the invisible processes through which emotions are quantified, bodies are classified, identities are inferred, and social relations are mediated by algorithms. Situated between artistic research, critical media practice, and embodied interaction, her work creates speculative situations through which alternative relationships with technology can be experienced, questioned, and reimagined.
In 2021, she co-founded Ghost Agency with Gro Sarauw, an artistic research practice that explores how art can foster social change through technological literacy, community, and the development of autonomous tools to resist digital surveillance. The project has received support from cultural institutions across Denmark, the Nordic region, and the United States.
AWARDS, GRANTS & ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Grant. National System of Art Creators (SNCA)
SACPC, Mexico 2025-2028 / 2020-2023
Artistic residency. ACT Lab
Tec. de Monterrey University, 2025-2026
Grant. Globus Forward (Ghost Agengy)
Nordic Culture Fund, 2026
Micro Institute (Ghost Agengy)
Art Hub Copenhagen, 2023-2026
Prize. Julio Torri for e-literature
Mexico, 2023
Fellowship. Production program
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil / BBVA Foundation Mexico, 2018-2020
Grant. Art, Sciencia y Technology
UNAM / FONCA Mexico, 2019
Artist Residency. Immersion and Mixed Realities Lab
CCD / BBVA Foundation, Mexico, 2018
Artist Residency. Seoul Art Space Geumcheon
SASG, South Korea, 2017
Grant. Young creators, New Technologies
FONCA, Mexico, 2014-2015 / 2009-2010
Honorary mention. Prisma Rectangular Prize, New Technologies
Mexico, 2014
Selected. Young International Contest of Contemporary Art (YICCA)
Bulgaria / Italy, 2013
Artist Residency. EMARE - Werkleitz
EMAP / FONCA. Germany, 2013
Grant. Production Support Program (PAPIAM)
Centro Multimedia, CENART. Mexico 2012-2014
Finalist. Arte Laguna Prize
MOCA-Arte Laguna. Italy 2012
Festivals
404. International Festival of Art and Technology
Argentina - USA, 2020. Organizer - Mexico, 2023
International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)
Canada, 2020
Hilaku - Mutations
IV Encounter of textile art in Zaragoza, Mottainai. Spain, 2020
Athens Digital Art Festival (ADAF)
Greece, 2019
Tecnopop - Mexian Design Open
Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico, 2019
Gwangju Media Arts Festival
Asian Culture Center, South Korea, 2018
Mutek MX
Digilab, Mexico City 2018
INMERSIVA Mixed Realities Festival
Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City 2018
Transpiksel Festival
Norway / Mexico, 2018
Biosensing - Hello World Festival
Mexico, 2018
Transitio MX_06 & 05
CMM, CENART. Mexico, 2015 & 2013
FILE Festival
Electronic Language International Festival. Brazil, 2015
UNPAINTED - International Fair for Digital Art
Postpalast Munich. Germany, 2014
Toolkit Festival
Italy, 2013
Selected Exhibitions
Session 8. Ghost Agency's solo exhibition
Room Room. Copenhagen, Denmark, 2025
Envíos del Futuro. Latinamerican speculative design
Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ). Jalisco, Mexico, 2025
Visions of a Future. 18th Annual Día de la Mujer as Ghost Agency
The Front, Arte y Cultura. San Diego, USA 2025
Fear & Fauna. Ghost Agency
ARIEL Feminisms in the Aesthetics. Copenhagen, Denmark, 2023
GUI - GOOEY
Plexus Projects, NY. USA, 2023
Vendrán Lluvias Suaves
CCD, Mexico, 2022
Inmersiones Errantes. Solo exhibition
Museo Internacional del Barroco, Puebla. Mexico, 2020
Parasitage. Black noise
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. Mexico, 2020
#NotArt. Solo exhibition
Neon Rex Gallery. Mexico, 2015
Imago Mundi. Luciano Bennetton collection
Italy, 2015