Doreen A. Rios
Doreen A. Rios is a curator and researcher with a focus on digital art, post-digital practices, and new materialities. She's the founder of [ANTI]MATERIA, an online platform committed to investigating and showcasing art created through digital media, with a particular emphasis on the Mexican art scene. She has authored numerous texts on the subjects of Mexican digital art, curatorial studies, and media theory. She was the chief curator at the Centro de Cultural Digital from 2019 to 2021. Currently, she serves as Advisor of Advanced Technologies at KADIST and is a PhD student in the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego.
Latin America provides a unique perspective on our relationship with screens, echoing concerns of the Global North while also adding a distinct perspective. Screens, beyond being mere technological artifacts, also represent cultural and artistic forms with which we interact, create, and experience our world. Shaped by historical legacies like colonialism and the process of mestizaje, as well as the shared experience of Spanish as a predominant language, Latin America’s cultural awareness is intricate and specific in relation to other geographies, while still being very nuanced. Yet, what remains as a shared condition at large is how its socio-political history is marked by tensions and contradictions, largely due to a constant struggle for autonomy against imperialism.

