René Garcia a Mexican born in California (1968) is presently based in Los Angeles. His work uses elements of conceptual art practices constructed around performance, video, audio and installation art. Mr. Garcia creates digitally enhanced and electronically mediated works to explore significant current political themes and the uncovering of an evolving convergence between the human body and new technologies.

Mr. Garcia’s current body of work is created under the rubric of Therapeutic Violence, a meta-narrative for the investigation of bodies of color, medical technology, airport surveillance and terrorism as a viral agent. His work Therápis Violentís is a multi-screen real time narrative, constructed out of a live-video mix using found film footage spanning a century. His solo durational performance piece How Will the Scar Find the Skin creates an interactive technology out of his body. By touching his body upon certain points video and audio are triggered upon a bank of 16 television monitors that are wired to his body. He has toured extensively with Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, Violeta Luna and Michelle Ceballos in addition to working wih Suzanne Lacy.

As his interest in the art of film has grown Mr. Garcia has turned his attention to the art of VJ'ing. With this contemporary "mash-up/remix" or as he prefers Post=Production aesthetic a new tenor in his artistic voice has emerged. He is able to create real time linear and non-linear narratives based on the reconstruction of film clips compiled over years and spanning the history of cinema with a focus on the body as a topographical ecology and the body as a projection of racialized aesthetics.

Mr. Garcia has been presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, CU Art Museum in Boulder, MIT, the Studio Museum Harlem and universities across the U.S.. Mr. Garcia completed his BA in fine art from San Francisco State University.