Who is Mira Ruido?

My real name is Joseba Elorza, and I was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, a small city in the Basque Country, Spain. I studied to become a sound technician and later spent a couple of unproductive years in art school. It was from this synesthetic hodgepodge that Mira Ruido emerged; I spent my mornings as a sound technician at a radio station and my evenings creating collages. Gradually, sight prevailed over hearing, and soon I was able to start making a living as an artist, illustrator, and animator. I've created illustrations for publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Esquire among many others, and I've produced animations for clients like National Geographic, Amazon Studios, and music bands like Green Day.

Throughout these nearly two decades of my creative career, I've balanced client work with personal art projects that have spearheaded my creative development. I use a copy-and-paste technique to decontextualize common knowledge, reconfigure our senses, and remix the known past with the unknown future. My works offer snapshots of a different world where everything seems possible, conveying a sense of ironic humor directed at society. I present familiar, everyday things in a disorienting new way.