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Doreen Ríos – Autor/a en A*Desk

Doreen Ríos (Toluca, Mexico). Her work focuses on technological counterproduction within contemporary art, tactical media, and new materialities. She is the founder of ANTI]MATERIA, an online platform dedicated to researching and exhibiting the critical use of technology in Latin American art. She is the author of the book Medios inestables. De objetos técnicos y arte [Unstable Media: On Technical Objects and Art] (2025). She was chief curator of the Center for Digital Culture (Mexico City, Mexico) from 2019 to 2021.

She holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Curating from the Winchester School of Arts, specializing in digital cultures, and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Tecnológico de Monterrey. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the University of California, San Diego, and is a member of the international selection committee for the Lumen Art Prize and the Leonardo Peer Review Panel.

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