Elia Vargas is an Oakland based artist, curator, and researcher. He works across multiple mediums, including video, sound, projection, and performance. He is co-founder and co-curator of the Living Room Light Exchange, a monthly salon on new media art and digital culture; half of improvisational modular synthesis duo systemritual; board member of the Soundwave Biennial; and a PhD student in Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. He is currently investigating the materiality of crude oil and light transmission in relationship to temporalities, flows, and cultural formulation.
