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Laura Balboa

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Guest Tutor of Phantom Scores 2026–2027

Laura Balboa is a Binnizá (Zapotec) autonomous researcher, radio producer, and artist based in Malmö, Sweden, who created a community radio platform called Bulla. This platform utilizes an oral technological framework for activist documentation, focusing on conversation, listening, sound, and experimental music by non-binary gender and non-conforming producers/artists of Mexican heritage or those who have worked in Mexican territory. Balboa's research has a socio-technological interest based on engaging with situated cultural production and community interactions. She has participated in different groups and projects ranging from female marginalized prison populations to open-source and live coding communities. She is part of the Sono(soro)ridades collective along with Ana Alfonsina Mora Flores, Freya Zinovieff, Amanda Gutiérrez, Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda, and Victoria Polti.

Laura Balboa stands in the center of the frame, arms crossed looking in the camera. She holds a Zoom recorder in her right hand.. She wears a short sleeves top and skirt ensemble in blue with white dots and red and orange embroideries. he her is long, straight and black with a fringe and a lot pony tail falling on her right side. Behind her seems to be her art studio, with equipment and a large red and pink fabric hanging from the top.