10:30 - 11:30 hrs

Cultural Politics

• Boris Groys

  (Berlin, 1947-) Is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is currently a Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and Senior Research Fellow at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been a professor of Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design/Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and an internationally acclaimed Professor at a number of universities in the United States and Europe, including the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California and the Courtauld Institute of Art London.

• Nina Möntmann

  Professor of Art Theory and the History of Ideas at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, curator and writer. Recent curated projects: Fluidity (co-curated in Hamburg 2016); Harun Farocki A new product (Hamburg, 2012); If we can't get it together. Artists rethinking the (mal)functions of community (The Power Plant, Toronto, 2008); The Jerusalem Show: Jerusalem Syndrome (together with Jack Persekian, 2009); the Armenian Pavillion for the 52nd Venice Biennial.
  Recent publications include the edited volumes  Brave New Work. A Reader on Harun Farocki’s film ‚A New Product’ (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2014); Scandalous. A Reader on Art & Ethics (Sternberg Press, 2013); New Communities (Public Books/The Power Plant, 2009) and Art and Its Institutions (Black Dog Publishing, 2006). 

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• Magalí Arriola

  Art critic and independent curator currently living in Mexico City. She was curator at Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo between 2011 and 2014, where she curated exhibitions of artists such as James Lee Byars (co-produced with MoMA-PS1), Guy de Cointet and Danh Vo, as well as collective shows displaying works from the Jumex Collection. She was Chief Curator of Museo Tamayo between 2009 and 2011 where she organised exhibitions and projects with artists such as Roman Ondák, Joachim Koester, Claire Fontaine, Adriá Julia and Julio Morales. Independent projects include: The Sweet Burnt Smell of History: The 8th Panama Biennial (2008); Prophets of Deceit (Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, 2006); What once passed for a future, or The landscapes of the living dead (Art2102, Los Angeles, 2005); How to Learn to Love the Bomb and Stop Worrying about it (CANAIA, México City / Central de Arte at WTC, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2003-2004); Alibis (Mexican Cultural Institute, Paris /Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2002). From 1998 to 2001 she was chief curator at the Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City, and visiting curator at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco in 2006. Arriola has extensively written for books, and catalogues and has contributed to publications such as Mousse, Manifesta Journal, Afterall and The Exhibitionist, among others.

11:30 - 12:30 hrs

Latin America: State, Neo-Liberalism & Culture

• George Yúdice

  He focus his research on the economic and social uses of cultural industries, especially on music, new media and visual arts; the cultural impact on new migrations; Brazil and Central American culture; and the research on new aesthetic phenomena on the digital era. His current project is described as a “post-ranciere” aesthetic, using as reference the new forms of circulation on cultural networks. He is author of El recurso de la cultura (Gedisa, 2002), Culturas emergentes en el mundo hispano de Estados Unidos (Fundación Alternativas, 2009), among others. He has written on numerous magazines and newspapers.

  He is professor of Latin-American Studies and cultural theory at the Language and Modern Literature department at Miami University. He is director of the Miami Observatory on Communication and Creative Industries.

• Claudio Lomnitz

  Anthropologist and historian, he writes about culture and politics in Mexico and Latin America, experiencing different areas from sociological essay to narrative history, from journalism to theatre. He is author of numerous books, such as Las salidas del laberinto: Cultura e ideología en el espacio nacional mexicano (Joaquín Mortiz, 1995); Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), El antisemitismo y la ideología de la Revolución Mexicana (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2010), and The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón (Zone Books, 2014), among many others.
  He has teach in different universities in Mexico and the United States, as well European and Latinamerican universities as Guest teacher. He has directed the Center for Latinamerican Studies at Chicago University, the Historical Studies Research Center at New School for Social Research in Nueva York, and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Columbia University. Lomnitz also directed the magazine Public culture (2004-2010). Along with his brother Alberto Lomitz, he won the Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia in Mexico (2009), for the play El verdadero Bulnes .
  He currently writes twice a month in the newspaper La Jornada and he is full professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, where he is also director of the Mexican Studies Center.

Moderator

• Rafael Lemus

  (México City, 1977) author of the colection of tales Informe (Tusquets, 2008) and the essayContra la vida activa (Tumbona, 2009). He funded the magazine Cuadreno Salmón (2006-2008), he was deputy editor of Letras Libres (2008-2010) magazine and funded Horizontal , he is also editor of the web site. His essays on cultural critic have been published on different newspapers and magazines in Latin America, Spain, USA, and have been collected on numerous collective books. He is Ph. D. candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY; he lives in New York.

12:40 - 14:00 hrs

The Mexican Cultural Apparatus Under Scrutiny

• Carlos Bravo Regidor

  Associate professor and research coordinator in the Journalism Program at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C. (CIDE) in Mexico. He has a BA in International Relations from El Colegio de México and a Master’s Degree in History from the University of Chicago. He has been a scholar of the Fullbright-García Robles Program, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, CONACyT and the CARSO Mexican History Studies Center. He was given the Charles A. Hale Award for Young Mexican Historians, by the Latin American Studies Association. His area of specialty is political and intellectual history. He has also collaborated in different media such as Este País, Etcétera, Letras Libres, Nexos, La Razón, El Universal and Horizontal. As an editor, his work has been published in Animal Político, Proceso, Newsweek en español, El Universal, Letras Libres and The New Yorker.
  

• Alejandro Hernández

  Architect and editor who has also been a member of Mexico’s National Creators System as well as that nation’s National Academy of Architecture. His most outstanding projects include the Centro de Diseño, Cine and Televisión campus (2003), the Universidad de Guadalajara’s Center for the Performing Arts (2009) as well as the rehabilitation of Mexico’s National Archives at the former Lecumberri Prison (2010). He has served as curator at numerous architecture biennials, notably at Rotterdam, São Paulo, Venice and the Canary Islands. Hernández is a professor of Projects and Architectural Theory at Universidad Anáhuac, CENTRO and the Universidad Iberoamericana. He also worked as a columnist for Mexico City daily Reforma and is currently published in a wide range of Mexican and foreign publications. He is Editorial Director at Arquine magazine.
  

  
  

• Déborah Holtz

  Studied Communications at Universidad Iberoamericana and holds a master’s degree in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has additionally completed specialized editorial studies at Stanford University as well as in cinema at New York University. Starting in 1995, she has been Director at Trilce Ediciones, which develops original content for a wide range of platforms. Holtz has edited books on art, popular culture, poetry and reportage as well as books for children and young people. Notable Holtz-produced exhibitions include Pedro Friedeberg, Sensacional de diseño mexicano, Espectacular de lucha libre and Cholombianos, among others. She has additionally produced web pages and television series, including 2013’s six-episode, half-hour series Sensacional de diseño mexicano, a co-production with Canal Once TV. She has co-hosted numerous television and radio programs and for four years helmed the Alianza de Editoriales Mexicanas Independientes industry organization; she has served as a board member for a number of cultural councils and civil-society organizations.­­  

• Luis Vargas Santiago

  Curator and art historian, deputy director of public programs at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) and professor of the Postgraduate in Art History at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He received his doctorate, master's and bachelor's degree in art history from The University of Texas at Austin, UNAM and Christopher Columbus University, respectively. His work discusses the crosses between race, gender and politics in the modern and contemporary art of the Americas from transnational perspectives. His research has been supported by numerous institutions and programs, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Terra Foundation in American Art, the Fulbright-Garcia Robles Program, and the National Fund for Culture and the Arts. His publications have appeared in academic journals, books and art catalogs in Europe, Latin America and the USA. His anthology History's Bodies: A Nineteenth-Century Latin American Art Reader, co-edited with Andrea Giunta, will be published by Duke University Press in 2016. 

  He has co-curated, among other projects: Images of Mexican (Palais des Beaux-Arts-BOZAR, Belgium, 2010), The Mexican Exodus: Heroes in the sights of art (National Museum of Art, Mexico, 2010) The Museum of Solidarity and archival memoirs (MUAC, UNAM, Mexico, summer 2016), and the Latin American Project: The Museum of Solidarity and Archival Memories (Snake Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 2015). He is also co-founder of the AURA Art and Culture initiative.

• Heriberto Yépez

  Author of more than twenty books, including novels as well as story, poetry and essay collections. He has completed studies in philosophy, psychotherapy and Hispanic literatures with an emphasis on critical theory. Published titles include A.B.U.R.T.O and Al otro lado (novels); the essays El Imperio de la neomemoria and Contra la tele-visión as well as poetry collections Por una poética antes del paleolítico y después de la propaganda and El órgano de la risa. He has translated William Blake’s aphorisms into Spanish and is both editor and translator of the poetics of Jerome Rothenberg and Charles Bernstein, translated José Vasconcelos’s English-language works and is co-editor and translator of Ulises Carrión’s artistic and literary writings. He currently divides his time between Tijuana and Berkeley, defining himself as a writer on “The Other Mexico and the Post-United States.”

Moderator

• María Minera

  Independent scholar and art critic based in Mexico City. Since 1998 she has published in a diversity of cultural magazines and journals (El País, Letras libres, La Tempestad, Otra Parte, among others). She has also written for numerous publications such as Drawing: The Bottom Line (S.M.A.K, 2015); Damián Ortega: Casino (Mousse Publishing, 2015);  Contemporary Art Mexico (TransGlobe Publishing, 2014); En esto ver aquello (Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, 2014); Gabriel Orozco: Natural Motion (Moderna Museet, 2013); Patricia Dauder: The Second Image (Serralves Foundation, 2013); Archivo J. R. Plaza (JRP/Ringier, 2012); Panorama: una revisión del acervo fotográfico del MAM (Museo de Arte Moderno, 2012); Pulsión y método (Turner, 2011); Les enfants terribles (Fundación Jumex, 2010); José Clemente Orozco a contraluz (Instituto Cultural Cabañas, 2010); La revolución de la mirada (Museo Nacional de Arte, 2008). She currently prepares the edition of her book Un paseo por el arte moderno (Turner).

15:30 - 16:40 hrs

A Culture of Common Good?

• Dolores Beistegui

  She has a long and outstanding career on the conceptual development and direction of projects related to arts, culture, public radio, and commerce and investment. She has directed the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, space focused on temporary exhibitions; the IMER (Instituto Mexicano de la Radio) and ProMéxico in France, dedicated to promote foreign investment and support the export of Mexican products. Since august 2011, she is Director of Papalote Museo del Niño. 
  

  
  

• Ana Tomé

  She holds a degree in Information Science (Journalism Specialty) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she also studied English Philology. She completed her education in London (1981-82) and New York (1985, ICEX scholarship). She worked as exhibitions coordinator at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (1988-89) and later at CasaAmérica (1990-91), both in Madrid. She later performed various functions in State Societies responsible for the Spanish participation in Universal Exhibitions and other cultural events of high level.

  In 1995 she joined the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID-Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain), for which she directed the Cultural Centers of Spain in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic, 1995-1998), La Havana (Cuba, 2001-2003), São Paulo (Brazil, 2004-2011) and Mexico City (2011 - July 2014). She runs the Reina Sofia Museum Foundation (Madrid), a position that she has held since September 2014.

  
  

• Christian Viveros-Fauné

  New York-based writer and curator. He has curated exhibitions at Mexico's Museum of Modern Art and Chile's Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende. He is the inaugural critic-in-residence 2010-2011 at the Bronx Museum and a Visiting Lecture at Yale University. He writes the Free-Lance column for ArtReview and criticism for The Village Voice and The Paris Review Daily. A collection of his criticism is forthcoming in Spanish from Metales Pesados, S.A.

  
  

Moderator

• Osvaldo Sánchez

  He is a curator and art critic. Director of the 4^th and 5^th international Forum on Contemporary Art Theory (1995-1996) FITAC, in Guadalajara, Mexico. Director of the Museo Carrillo Gil and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City. He has been a columnist specialized in art for the Reforma newspaper in México D.F, as well as a writer for several specialized publications in Mexican and Latin-American art. He has been guest professor at the Art Department in the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico. He was Co-Curator for the international public art project InSite 2000-01, Tijuana- San Diego and Artistic Director of lnSite 2005. He is currently the Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.

16:40 - 18:30 hrs

A Culture of Common Good?

• Melanie Bouteloup

  Co-founder and the current director of Bétonsalon – Centre for art and research. Over the last ten years, she has curated numerous projects in various forms that anchor research in society on process-based, collaborative and discursive levels, following different time spans, in cooperation with various local, national and international organizations. In 2012, Mélanie Bouteloup is associate curator with artistic director Okwui Enwezor of the Paris Triennale - an event organised on the initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Communication/DGCA, the Centre National des Arts Plastiques and the Palais de Tokyo. In 2015, Mélanie Bouteloup opens a new art centre associated to Bétonsalon – Centre for art and research - Villa Vassilieff - devoted to accompany artistic research.

• Simon Njami

  Writer and indepen­dent curator, lecturer, art critic and essayist. He has published his first novel “Cercueil et Cie” in 1985, followed by “Les Enfants de la Cité” in 1987, “Les Clandestins” and “African Gigolo” in 1989, notably. Njami is the co-founder of Re­vue Noire, a journal of contempo­rary African and extra-occidental art, and he was Visiting Professor at UCSD (University of San Diego California). After conceiving the Ethnicolor Festival in Paris in 1987, he curated many international exhibitions being among the first ones to think and show African contemporary art­ists work on international stages. He has served as Artistic Director of Bamako Encounters, the African Photography Biennale, from 2001 to 2007. Njami is the curator of “Af­rica Remix”, showed in Düsseldorf (Museum Kunst Palast), London (Hayward Gallery), Paris (Centre Pompidou), Tokyo (Mori Museum), Stockholm (Moderna Museet) and Johannesburg (Johannesburg Art Gallery), from 2004 to 2007. He co-curated the first African Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale. He cu­rated the first African Art Fair, held in Johannesburg in 2008, and was the Artistic Director of Luanda Triennale (2010), Picha (Lumumbashi Biennale – 2010), SUD (Douala Tri­ennale – 2010), among others exhi­bitions and international art events.
  The exhibition "The Divine Com­edy – Heaven, Hell, Purgatory by Contemporary African Artists" was shown at MMK, The SCAD Muse­um of Art and at Smithsonian Insti­tution/ African Art Museum, Wash­ington, from 2014 to 2015. He recently curated the Walther Collection at Maison Rouge (Paris), end of 2015, beginning of 2016 and Monograph of the South African Photographer Santu Mofokeng at Fondazione Fotografia, Modena, Italy. He is the Artistic Director of the 12th Dakar Biennale (May 2016). 

Moderator

• Osvaldo Sánchez

  He is a curator and art critic. Director of the 4^th and 5^th international Forum on Contemporary Art Theory (1995-1996) FITAC, in Guadalajara, Mexico. Director of the Museo Carrillo Gil and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City. He has been a columnist specialized in art for the Reforma newspaper in México D.F, as well as a writer for several specialized publications in Mexican and Latin-American art. He has been guest professor at the Art Department in the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico. He was Co-Curator for the international public art project InSite 2000-01, Tijuana- San Diego and Artistic Director of lnSite 2005. He is currently the Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.

10:00 - 11:25 hrs

The Production of Art Value

• Pascal Gielen

  Full professor of sociology of art and politics at the Research Center Arts in Society (Groningen University - the Netherlands) and at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (Antwerp University - Belgium). He is editor in-chief of the international book series ‘Arts in Society’. His research focuses on the institutional context of the arts and on cultural politics. Gielen has published many books which are translated in English, Korean, Portugees, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. 

• Marina Vishmidt

  London-based writer occupied mainly with questions around art, labour and value. She is the author of Speculation as a Mode of Production (Brill, forthcoming) and A -Autonomy (with Kerstin Stakemeier) (Textem and Mute, forthcoming). She also works regularly with Anthony Iles and with Melanie Gilligan. She contributes to journals such as Mute, Afterall, Texte zur Kunst, and the South Atlantic Quarterly, as well as co-/edited collections and catalogues, most recently Anguish Language (Archive Books, 2015). She is part of the Theory faculty at the Dutch Art Institute, lectures in the history and criticism of artists' moving image at the University of Brighton, and is a visiting lecturer at the Sandberg Instituut and the Riskin School of Art

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• Brenda Caro

  Degree in Hispanic Language and Literature from Universidad Veracruzana, Master in Museums by the Universidad Iberoamericana and PhD student in the Museum Studies program at the University of Leicester, Leicester, England. Worked in the National Coordination of Plastic Arts, INBA; The Coordination of Cultural Diffusion, UNAM; The Museum of Modern Art, INBA and Casa Vecina, Foundation of the Historic Center of Mexico City, A.C. And the University Museum of Poplar. She was a professor in the University of the Sor Juana Cloister and in the Autonomous University of the City of Mexico. She collaborates regularly in CAÍN, as well as in other publications such as Code and GasTv.

  
  

11:40 - 13:00 hrs

The Production of Art Value

• Dave Beech

  Dave Beech is a member of the art collective Freee, writer and Professor of Art at Valand Academy, Gothenburg. His recent book Art and Value, published by Brill 2015, was shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize. His work had been exhibited at the Istanbul Biennial and the Liverpool Biennial. He is a regularly contributor to Art Monthly, co-authored the book The Philistine Controversy, Verso (2002) with John Roberts, edited the MIT/Whitechapel book Beauty, and is a founding co-editor of Art and the Public Sphere journal.

• Stewart Martin

  Stewart Martin is Reader in Philosophy and Fine Art at Middlesex University and editorial collective member for the journal Radical Philosophy. His publications include: Marx (Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2014); Short Treatise on Art (Aesthetics and Contemporary Art, 2011); Artistic Communism – A Sketch (Third Text, 2009); The Absolute Artwork Meets The Absolute Commodity (Radical Philosophy, 2007).

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• Benjamín Mayer

  Holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Mexico’s National Autonomous University; has completed MA studies in Psychoanalytic Theory at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Psicoanalíticos, has a Diploma from Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory, an MA in English and Critical Theory from the University of Sussex as well as a BA in European History and Latin from the same institution. He has worked as a private-practice psychoanalyst in Mexico City since 1999. Mayer is additionally the Founding Director of 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos where he devised, inaugurated and oversees the master’s, doctorate and post-doctorate programs in Critical Theory. He is founding Co-Director (alongside Alberto Moreiras and Davide Tarizzo) of Política Común, a journal edited on line from the University of Michigan. Mayer has worked as a professor at UAM-Azcapotzalco University’s master’s program in Mexican Historiography and was founding director of Universidad Anáhuac’s Master’s in Semiotics program (1995-2001), a researcher with Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (1996-2005), Director of the Semiotics specialty program at Universidad Anáhuac (1993-1995) and was Director of the UNIVERSUM el Museo de las Ciencias de la UNAM Foundation’s video chronicles program (1991-1993). He served on the SITAC board (2012-2015); has been a member of the Festival de Artes Electrónicas Transitio board since 2012; and he has also be on the Fundación Pedro Meyer board since 2010.

13:00 - 14:10 hrs

The Production of Art Value

• Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba

  (León, México, 1988). He is a visual artist who currently lives and works in Mexico City. He studied in the educational program of SOMA and is founder and co-director of the exhibition space Bikini Wax. He has also collaborated with texts for magazines such as The Tempest, Earthquake or The Critical Blog. Recently he presented the project Why I was not your friend? In the gallery kurimanzutto.

   

  
  

• Alejandro Gómez-Arias

  (Mexico City, 1985) Visual artist and experimental economist. Graduated from the ENAP, with a master's degree from the UNAM. He studied Political Economy at the UACM. He has exhibited in Mexico and abroad. He won the 2008 National Young Art Award and the Young Creative Scholarship, FONCA (2013-2014). His interests are directed towards the relationship between art and economic practices, conducting a theoretical-practical research on alternative markets and currencies. He has been a professor at the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM), at CEACO, and CCUT (UNAM). He was a member of the UVA Advisory Council, UNAM (2013-2015) and was a speaker at the III Forum of Economy and Culture (UACM-UAM-UNAM). In 2015 he was invited to present the book The critical thinking of the EZLN. Currently co-editing MM5. He is the founder of the Creative Monetary Fund.

• Sandra Sánchez

  (Mexico City, 1988) Art critic and cultural manager. Sandra Sánchez studied English Language and Literature at the UNAM, Art at Sor Juana University and at the moment Philosophy and History of Ideas at the UACM. Her field of interest is contemporary art, focusing on the relationship between the institution and the independent spaces, as well as the way in which the contemporary operates locally in front of the global discourse in which it is inserted. She is currently developing research on the white cube as a frame of art beyond the medium. Since 2011 she writes art criticism in magazines such as Cain, Code, GASTV, Spokesman, Arachne Webzine, Earthquake and Critic Blog. She is a reporter for contemporary art in the Expressions section of the newspaper Excélsior. Since 2015 she has been part of Biquini Wax, a space dedicated to young artists' exhibitions and writing, reflection and analysis of contemporary art in Mexico City. From 2014 she directs, with Gustavo Cruz, the seminar General Notions of Aesthetics for Artists (Sundays of Roof), open to the public in general.

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• Pilar Villela

  Visual artist. She also writes and has worked as a teacher, translator and manager. As manager she has collaborated with various institutions organizing activities that blend the exhibition of works of art with academic presentations. All of them have been centered in the link between art and economy, in particular face to the "dematerialization" of the art. Some of these events are: Habeas corpus III Public Art Forum, Public Art Room Siqueiros (2004); The customer is always right, V Forum of Public Art, Room of Public Art Siqueiros (2008), The company is me, Casa del Lago, UNAM (2014). Villela has taught in various institutions including ENAP (now FAD) of UNAM, Universidad Iberoamericana, CEACO in La Curtiduria, Oaxaca. She has collaborated with various publications at national and international level. As an artist, Villela has shown her work individually and collectively in Mexico and abroad. She is currently a member of the National System of Creators of FONCA.

   

14:10 - 14:30 hrs

NODOS Presentation

• Christian Gómez

  (Mexico) Journalist and researcher, he studied Art History and Communications Sciences at Mexico’s National Autonomous University. As a member of its Political and Social Sciences faculty, he has taught Art and Communications, Journalism and Narrative Language, and has led a workshop in Aesthetic Appreciation and Media Narrative. In the Arts-Education Mediation realm, he designed and led the Museo Jumex workshop entitled “Desde el arte el entorno” (“From Art, Environment”), and served as “resident interlocutor” at the Centro Cultural Border’s Art Education Platform. He also participated in an “Art and Materiality” seminar that emerged from post-graduate Art History studies. He has worked as editor in the arts section at La Ciudad de Frente as well as a reporter for the National University’s Office of Cultural Awareness. Since 2009, Gómez Vega has written on contemporary art in both academic and general-audience publications. His research is oriented toward contemporary arts practice mediation and its political and social implications. 
  

• Mariana Munguía Matute

  Sociologist by Universidad de Guadalajara, she served as coordinator of Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo AC from 2001-2004, where she coordinated the I, II and III International Symposium on Contemporary Art and Theory (SITAC). She was Curatorial Assistant for the exhibition and catalog Mexico City: an exchange rate of bodies and values, for PS1 (2001). She was director of Laboratorio de Arte Alameda (2006-2007) in Mexico City; director of Fundación Omnilife, where she opened the space 'La Planta' (2007-2008) and Oficina para Proyectos de Arte (OPA, 2008-2010), both in Guadalajara, Mexico. She was Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach representative for Mexico and was part of the artistic committee at the 8th Berlin Biennal