What I am / where I am coming from

Zona Zanjeros is a multimedia performance artist whose immersive work fuses sound, ritual, and experimental media to explore surveillance, identity, and AI-driven disorientation. Rooted in NYC’s avant-garde and now based in Seattle, WA, they lead the projects Enemy Zero and Computer Age, with performances at festivals across the U.S., China, and Europe, and a 24-channel spatial installation presented at Reforesters Laboratory’s Sound Clinic in Brooklyn. Their collaborative history includes Elliott Sharp, Weasel Walter, Messica Arson, and Justin Lazer, and they co-founded Visceral Realists, which debuted at the 2024 International Live Coding Conference in Shanghai. Zona was awarded the 2025 GAP Grant by Artist Trust, spoke on surveillance and media at the Moldox Festival in Moldova, and has curated major experimental arts events like Analog Sacrifice and Solar Slash. Through their label Computer Age Recordings and ongoing curatorial work, they continue to push the boundaries of experimental sound and performance art globally

Zona Zanjeros is a multimedia artist whose immersive practice fuses sound, performance, and experimental media to investigate the evolving entanglements of technology, identity, and nature. Based in Seattle, WA, with deep roots in NYC’s avant-garde scene, Zona has developed a body of work that spans solo performances, curatorial platforms, interdisciplinary festivals, and collaborations across sound, poetry, and visual media. Their major projects—Computer Age, Enemy Zero, and Sense/Net—confront the tension between the organic and the digital, using disruptive, ritual-based sound and light to probe themes of surveillance, AI evolution, sensory overload, and posthuman disintegration. Influenced by postmodern philosophy, the Theatre of Cruelty, and Futurist performance art, Zona invites audiences into immersive environments that question what remains of the self under digital capitalism. Computer Age channels a ritualistic compositional approach, transforming original 12-string guitar improvisations through Ableton Live, Max/MSP, and Supercollider into abstract, distorted sonic landscapes. The project draws from hardcore punk, noise, techno, electroacoustic, and no-wave, creating intense physical experiences that examine the impacts of digital life on human perception and ecology. Enemy Zero, their primary performance art project, expands these ideas through multimedia immersion—combining noise, strobe lighting, TouchDesigner visuals, and live voice to evoke overstimulated environments reflective of AI and identity collapse. In 2025, Enemy Zero released three albums (Shatter, Move Fast and Break People, Reflective Impotence) and toured internationally, merging Baudrillardian simulation with Artaudian intensity. In parallel, Zona co-leads Sense/Net, a quadraphonic electro-acoustic collaboration with Justin Lazer that investigates surveillance and control through spatial psychoacoustics. In 2025, they presented a 24-channel sound installation at Reforesters Laboratory’s Sound Clinic residency in Brooklyn. That same year, Zona was awarded the prestigious Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) by Artist Trust (Seattle), recognizing their innovative contributions to experimental sound. Their commitment to community and interdisciplinary experimentation also led to speaking on surveillance and media at the 2025 Moldox Film Festival in Moldova, where they served on an artist panel addressing global systems of control. Zona curates Anti Coherence, a new experimental performance series that materializes in unexpected spaces across the world. It has appeared in Seattle, New York, and Berlin, with plans to expand to more cities as part of its decentralized, nomadic ethos. They also curated Analog Sacrifice and Solar Slash—interdisciplinary events blending poetry, experimental music, and video art, held most recently at NYC’s Theatrelab. Zona runs Computer Age Recordings, a label dedicated to boundary-pushing experimental work, and co-founded Visceral Realism, an open-source computer music collective named in homage to Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives, which performed at the 2024 International Live Coding Conference in Shanghai. Throughout their career, Zona has collaborated with Elliott Sharp, Weasel Walter, Messica Arson, Tim Burkland, Katie Ebbitt, Emily Martin, Lindsay Tuttles, Janna Lee, Jasper Leech, and Andy Borsz. Through their interconnected practice—spanning ritual performance, sonic disruption, theoretical inquiry, and collective action—Zona crafts work that resists containment, offering not answers but visceral experiences that confront the fractures of the present and signal toward possible futures.