Veronica Anne Salinas (she/they) is a Tejana artist, educator, writer, and Deep Listener. Her creative research engages sound, landscape, geomancy, writing, anthropology, performance, the archive, and video. Her work in sound focuses on acoustic ecology, text scores, voice and language, listening practices, spatial audio, improvisation and performance, and sonic archiving. She holds an MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is currently studying Deep Listening at the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and serves on the board of directors for the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology.

Her work has been featured at the Bemis Center (Omaha, NE), Granite City Art and Design District (Granite City, IL), Co-Prosperity Sphere (Chicago, IL), New Music Gathering (Portland, OR), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL), Elastic Arts (Chicago, IL), Empty Bottle (Chicago, IL), Omaha Under the Radar (Omaha, NE), Urban Arts Space (Columbus, OH), 2nd International Conference on Sonorities Research (II CIPS Sonoridades Fronteriças), the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE), Noise Pulp Radio, Quarantine Concerts, No Nation Art Lab (Chicago, IL), MANA Contemporary (Chicago, IL), Flatland Gallery (Chicago, IL), Farmhouse Art Collective, Open Sheds (Chicago, IL), The Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR) Latino Arts Now! 2019 Conference, Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago, IL), Chicago Design Museum (Chicago, IL), Sullivan Galleries (Chicago, IL), Mudlark Theatre (New Orleans, LA), Box 13 (Houston, TX), Megapolis Audio Festival (Philadelphia, PA), Midtown Arts & Theatre Center Houston (Houston, TX), Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX), Art League Houston (Houston, TX), Alabama Song (Houston, TX), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), Clamp Light Artist Studios & Gallery (San Antonio, TX), Artpace (San Antonio, TX), Sala Diaz (San Antonio, TX), Highwire Arts (San Antonio, TX), and Cities and Memory (UK).

Artist Statement: My creative experimentation draws primarily on sound, new media, ecology, performance, and literary practices. My work engages with ideas of orientation, becoming, of in-process and evolving work/selves/technologies, feral sensualities, acoustic territories, amplifying the body/marginality, visual and sonic landscapes, spatial cultures, digital storytelling, walking practices, materiality, universal cosmic energy, vibrational healing, and radical and empathetic ways of listening with/to human and non-human entities as social practice. I’m interested in interrogating the sonic perspective, listening approaches, attention spans/dispatches, and working with communities to further understand ways of being.