François Bucher is an artist who graduated in Plastic Arts from the Universidad de los Andes and trained in film at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was awarded a scholarship at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. He served as a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Umea University in Sweden for 12 years, where he was also accepted into a doctoral program in artistic practice within the same institution.

His work and research encompass a broad range of interests and media, initially focusing on issues related to ethical and aesthetic questions surrounding film and television, and media in its broadest sense. These themes were central to both his essays and his artistic projects. Until 2008, his work can be described as conceptual and politically focused. Since then, his ideas have taken a new direction, and his production over the past decade engages with issues related to the capture of weak signals— from other planes of perception—and the discovery of patterns in background noise. This is framed within an essentially poetic language that often draws from conceptual events in contemporary science and other alternative sciences commonly referred to as “traditional knowledge.” Additionally, there is an underlying paradigm shift concerning his view on where and what constitutes the political