CLAUDIX VANESIX
(they/them)is a Peruvian performance and new media artist based in France. Working at the intersection of digital interfaces, live performance, artificial intelligence, immersive media and contemporary mythology, their practice investigates how emerging technologies reshape bodies, identities and systems of power. They are the artistic director of FIVIA (Festival International de Vidéo et Intelligence Artificielle) in Marseille and co-founder of AMiXR, a Peruvian collective dedicated to feminist and decolonial research in artificial intelligence, extended realities, film and performing arts.
Vanesix work challenges narratives of technological inevitability and the promises of progress embedded in contemporary technocapitalism. Their work examines how sexism, racism, colonialism and authoritarian structures are reproduced and amplified through digital infrastructures, algorithmic bias and internet culture. Through movement, Virtual and Augmented reality, Machine Learning, Real-Time AI image generation and audiovisual installations, they explore the political implications of technological embodiment and the increasingly blurred boundaries between human, machine and non-human life.
A central element of their practice is the encounter between emerging technologies and ancestral knowledge. Drawing from Peruvian cultural imaginaries, ritual practices and alternative cosmologies, Vanesix develops anti-futurist narratives that question Western techno-utopian visions of the future. Rather than treating technology as an inevitable path towards human evolution, they approach it as a contested territory where other forms of intelligence, identity, spirituality and coexistence can be imagined. Their research critically interrogates the aesthetics of liberal transhumanism, exploring how bodies become interfaces, data, commodities and sites of technological intervention.
Their artistic trajectory has been presented internationally across Latin America, the United States, Europe and Asia. Their performance NFTs: Non Fuckable Tokens, combining performance art, VR and AR to examine misogyny and colonial narratives in internet culture, has been presented at Ars Electronica, SXSW, Tabakalera, Hebbel am Ufer, Festival de la Imagen, among others. Their first VR film, Dance Permit (Denied), premiered at the 36th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2023. Their AR performance film Amy Camus AR, a fictional reinterpretation of Peruvian singer Yma Sumac and the exoticisation of Peruvian identity, was part of the Pérez Art Museum Miami's digital video programme in 2024, after being censored in Peru in 2021.
In 2025, their VR musical FEEDBACK VR, an Anti-Futurist Musical, produced with AMiXR, received the IDFA Award for Immersive Non-Fiction and the Netherlands Film Fund Interactive Grant. Combining Andean-inspired rituals, immersive storytelling and musical performance, the work imagines alternative relationships between ancestral cosmologies and virtual worlds.
Their forthcoming multidisciplinary work The 3 Bitcoin Opera, won the Best Project Award at the inaugural Biennale College Blend, organised by La Biennale di Venezia in 2026.
Vanesix holds a BA in Performing Arts and received the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Degree Scholarship in Media Arts Cultures (2022), an international programme developed in Austria, Denmark, Poland and Singapore. They are an alumnus of the first FOUNDING LAB organised by IT:U and Ars Electronica; CTM × Transmediale HackLab; and Sónar+D AI & Music powered by S+T+ARTS.