Mario Guzmán

Mario Guzmán is a Mexican creative technologist, artist and researcher working at the intersection of artificial voice, social robotics and cultural mediation. He is a PhD candidate at La Rochelle Université, where he researches the semiotics of artificial voice and machine personas (thesis “Voicing Artificial Entities. Semiotics and Cultural Narratives in the Development of AI and Robot Persona and Personalities”). For eight years (2018–2026) he operated and wrote dialogue for Sophia, Grace and Desdemona robots across Hanson Robotics and SingularityNET. He is a mentor at the School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe in Berlin, co-founder of the Imagined Tech Studies collective, and Spanish i18n Steward for the Processing Foundation's p5.js. His work has been shown internationally at the Dakar Biennale, BIENALSUR and ZERO1.