Lecturers:

Eduardo Abaroa. Artist born in 1968. His solo shows include Freaks of Leisure and Hypocrisy, Carillo Gil Museum, Mexico City (1999), Recent Models and Freaks, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (1999). He made a public project for InSite 97, in the Tijuana-San Diego Area. Some of the group shows he participated in since the early nineties are Soon After Before (2000) Track 16 Gallery, It's my life, I want to change the World (1995), ACME, Los Angeles, and Acn, in the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City. He has made art reviews for Reforma daily newspaper, Curare bulletin, Casper, and other Mexican publications. He is also a founder of the short-lived Temistocles 44 artist run space. Abaroa just received his MFA from Calarts.

Magali Arriola. Born in Paris, in 1970. Now lives and works in Mexico City. She is an art history graduate of the University of Paris I Panthon-Sorbonne and has worked as a researcher in the Cultural Center/Contemporary Art and in the Rufino Tamayo Museum. She has been a contributor to the Reforma newspaper for the column, El Ojo Breve, and to journals such as Poliester, Curare and ArtNexus. From May 1998 to February 2001, she served as chief curator for the Carrillo Gil Art Museum. She is currently a freelance curator and contributor to the plastic arts section of the Milenio newspaper.

Carmen Cuenca. Executive Director in Mexico of inSITE 2000 and inSITE 97. In inSITE 94, Carmen Cuenca was responsible for programming in Tijuana, representing the Baja California Committee as coordinator of expositions at the Tijuana Cultural Center. Subsequently she served as cultural attach at the Mexican General Consulate in San Diego. From 1982 to 1989 she was a researcher at the San Carlos Museum, a part of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. Carmen Cuenca obtained a degree in art history from the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City. She has been living in the city of Tijuana since 1989. At present she is General Coordinator for Binational Projects at the Tijuana Cultural Center.

Vanesa Fernández. Editor of the magazine, El Tiempo Celeste. She has a Masters degree in contemporary and post-war art from the University of Manchester / Sothebys Institute in London. From 1994 to 1997 she was the editor of the journal, Museos, and Portal Art Daily. She was the coordinator for expositions in MARCO, including its opening, and the Monterrey Museum from 1997 until it closed. At the latter, she organized the virtual art exposition and the Mediateca Arte Accesso, in which she developed projects such as Recorridos Virtuales, amongst others. Since 1994 she has written regularly as art critic for various newspapers, including El Norte, Milenio and Milenio Diario de Monterrey, and also has contributed to exposition catalogs and journals. The most recent of these was the essay for the catalog for the Jenny Holzer exposition in MARCO. She taught at the University of Monterrey for three years, is Vice President of the Barrio Antiguo Cultural Festival, and is currently working as executive director for a new magazine entitled WOW.

Anna María Guasch is a professor of Contemporary Art and Art Criticism at the University of Barcelona. In recent years she has focused her interest on the study of international art in the second half of the XX Century, with special emphasis on the art of the last two decades. Her publications include El arte del siglo XX en sus exposiciones: 1945-1995 (Barcelona, Serbal, 1997) and El arte último del siglo XX. Del posminimalismo a lo multicultural (Madrid, Alianza, 2000). Anna María Guasch is also the editor of the text, Los manifiestos del arte posmoderno: Textos de exposiciones 1980-1995 (Madrid, Akal, 2000) and coordinator and author of Crtica de arte: Historia, teoría y praxis (Barcelona, Serbal, in press). She currently serves as art critic for the newspaper La Vanguardia in Barcelona, and for the art journals Lápiz and Kalías and is director of the contemporary art book collection for Akal publishers in Madrid. She has organized a number of courses and seminars, including the international seminar on The Artistic Debate since 1968: Modernism, Postmodernism and Globalization (El Escorial, 2001). She has been a Visiting Fellow at Yale, Princeton and Columbia (New York) Universities.

Manray Hsu. Is an independent art critic and curator based in Taipei. Trained in philosophy at Columbia University, Manray is a contributor to Art Asia-Pacific, Flash Art, and major Chinese art magazines, and has organized exhibitions including "Back from Home" (1997, Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei), "Thing-Made Things" (1998, IT Park, Taipei), "Exhibition of Chang Hsiao-chien and Hsia Yin: Two Youngest Artists in History" (co-produced w/ Ralf Schmitt, 1999, Hua-shan Cultural District, Taipei), "Frogangsters: Group Exhibition of an Indefinite Number of Frogs" (1999, Cities on the Move, About Cafe, Bangkok), 2000 Taipei Biennial: The Sky Is The Limit (2000-2001, co-curated with Jerome Sans, Taipei Fine Arts Museum), and Orange Marble (2001, Huashan Arts District, Taipei.) Manray served as a member of jury (with Ery Camara, Carolyn Christov-Bakergiev, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Viginia Perez-Ratton) for the 49th Venice Biennale.

Mary Jane Jacob, an independent curator based in Chicago, has organized exhibition programs that test the boundaries of public space and the relationship of contemporary art to audience. In the last decade these included: the influential site-specific exhibition Places with a Past (for Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston); experimental, community-based public art programs Culture in Action (for Sculpture Chicago) and Points of Entry (for Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh); and Conversations at The Castle (for the Arts Festival of Atlanta) that traversed artistic, curatorial, and educational practices. During this time she also served as Consulting Curator for The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, initiating over twenty artists projects and a touring exhibition of installation works. Ms. Jacob is now organizing Evoking History: Listening Across Cultures and Communities, a three-year initiative for the Spoleto Festival USA (2000-2003). Concurrently, she is Curator for Project Development of Awake: Art, Buddhism, and the Dimensions of Consciousness, a consortium effort based in the San Francisco Bay Area that will culminate in exhibitions and public programs throughout the U.S. in 2003-2004. Mary Jane Jacob is an Adjunct Professor in the Sculpture Department of The School of the Art Institute and on the graduate faculty of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York.

Yu Yeon Kim, was born in South Korea. She is an independent curator based in New York and Seoul, and co-founder of PLEXUS (http://plexus.org), a non-profit Internet art organization in New York. Yu Yeon Kim was the Commissioner for Latin America for the 3rd Kwangju Biennale 2000 (Exotica Incognita), and a Commissioner of the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa, 1997-1998, (for which she curated "Transversions" at the Museum Africa). Recently she has curated "Translated Acts - Performance and Body Art from East Asia" at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and the Queens Museum, New York (2001). She was also the curator of "Fragmented Histories", the Asia-Pacific section of the Cinco Continentes y Una Ciuda exposition at Mexico City Museum in Mexico 1998-1999. Other curatorial projects include; "In the Eye of the Tiger", a survey of contemporary Korean art at Exit Art, New York (1997), and the Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul (1998); "OMNIZONE, Perspectives in Mapping Digital Culture", on-line project featured on both the Plexus.org and the Guggenheim Museums's websites. In 1999 she received the Rockefeller Brothers Humanities Fellowship Award and was also a panelist of "Cultural Exchange Via The Internet - Opportunities and Strategies", an online forum of Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; "Shanghai Spirit" at Shanghai Museum, China; "Integration of Art and Science" at Hanover University, Germany; "Parenthesis in the City" at Museum of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico. Her writings have been published in various journals including, ARTAsia Pacific, Atlantica, Flash Art, and Intelligent Agent.

Michael Krichman, Executive Director / U.S. of inSITE94, inSITE97 e inSITE2000, Krichman has overseen the realization of more than 150 public projects by artists from the Americas in the San Diego / Tijuana region. From 1990-1993 he was a partner in Quint / Krichman projects, a private residency program that invited artists to make new work in San Diego. Prior to founding Quint / Krichman Projects, Krichman worked as an environmental lawyer with the Firm of Latham and Watkins from 1979-1982. He served guest curator of pre-hispanic art at the Rose Art Museum in Boston. He received his BA from Brandeis University in 1979 and his JD from Georgetown University in 1985.

José Kuri / Mónica Manzutto (Kurimanzutto Gallery). The Kurimanzutto Gallery was founded on August 21, 1999. The gallery does not have a specific physical space, but is constantly moving. For each event or exhibition, the gallery helps the artist or group to find the specific place or right situation in which to hold it. The gallery currently represents 14 artists. All of them share a common energy which expands day by day and which led, in a natural way, to the formation of this enterprise. The inaugural event, Economa de Mercado, was an exhibition of a day in a market in Mexico City. All of the artists prepared works to be displayed and sold in that context. The second project was held in what used to be a rug store. Each artist showed the living room of his home, thus creating a group of microenvironments. Permanencia Voluntaria was a video show that took place in a small movie house. By inserting itself into already existing gallery spaces and supporting individual projects, the gallery has continued to develop during the little more than two years of its existence.

Rosa Martínez, is an independent art critic and curator. She was co-curator of Manifest I (Rotterdam, 1996) and artistic director of the 5th Istanbul International Biennial (1997), the Santa Fe SITE Biennial (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 1999) and EVA 2000 (Limerick, Ireland). Since 1998 she has been curator for the ARCO International Project Rooms (Madrid), jointly with Octavio Zaya. In 2000 she was co-curator of Leaving the Island (with Hou Hanru and Young Chul Lee) at the Pusan Metropolitan Museum (Korea) and Living and Working in Vienna (with Paulo Herkenhoff and Maaretta Jaukkuri) for the Kunsthalle in Vienna. For two seasons she served as curator of the Montcada Room at the Fundacin La Caixa Foundation for the cycle, 5 Valores para el próximo milenio (1991-92), and the cycle, Los Meteoros (1997). In 1997 she was also director of a training course for curators entitled Passion and Tedium in Contemporary Art, organized by the Caixa de Pensiones. With Xabier Arakistain, she curated Trans Sexual Express Barcelona 2001 at the Santa Monica Art Center, a traveling exposition that will be shown in the Kunsthalle Mucsarnok in Budapest (January 2002) and in the Kiosko Alfonso de la Corua (April 2002). At the same time she is the promoter for the Katmandu Project and writes for numerous specialized publications, including Flash Art Internacional, Atlántica, El País and Letra Internacional.

Michelle Marxuach. Curator, residing in Puerto Rico. She is the director of M&M Proyectos, an alternative, non-profit space devoted to encouraging contemporary art production that has in the past created and organized numerous expositions and projects. She has also worked to promote Puerto Rican artists on the international stage. Some of her most recent works are: Fonico, an invitation to 9 artists initially (actual participation by about 15) to work in a weekend workshop on the grounds for the construction of the school (Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, 2001); Registro de marca, proyecto de Ins Aponte (Museo de las Américas and around the city, Puerto Rico, 2001); Puerto Rico 00 [paréntesis en la ciudad], an international event throughout the city (Puerto Rico, 2000); U/topistas (Puerto Rico 1999-2000; Espacios en Transición / Transición en Espacios, ten Puerto Rican artists in an exposition during the construction of the museum (MAPR, Puerto Rico); El Caf de las Tres en Casa de Doa Fela, four female artists invited to live in a Felisa Rincn de Gautier Museum (1999). She has collaborated in international art fairs, such as ARCO 99, ARCO 00 and ARCO 01 (Madrid, Spain); FIAC 99 (Paris, France), and Art Miami 2000 (Florida, USA).

Hans Ulrich Obrist was born in May 1968 in Zurich, Switzerland, and currently lives and works in Paris. Since 1993 he has run the programme Migrateurs at the Muse dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and has been a curator for the museum in progress, Vienna. He was the founder of the migratory Museum Robert Walser (1993) and of the Nano Museum (1996). Since 1997 he is editor in chief of Point d'Ironie, which is published by agnes b. Since 1991 he has curated numerous exhibitions including: The Kitchen Show (St. Gallen, 1991); Christian Boltanski in the Monastery Library St.Gallen (1991); Gerhard Richter, Nietsche Haus, Sils Maria (1992); Htel Carlton Palace (Paris, 1993); The Broken Mirror (with Kasper Koenig, Vienna Festival, 1993); Life / Live (with Laurence Boss, Muse dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Centro Belem, Lisbon, 1996); Do it (so far 30 versions since 1994, American tour 1997-2001); Cities on the Move (with Hou Hanru, Secession Vienna and CAPC Bordeaux, 1997, and Hayward Gallery, London and Kiasma Helsinki and Bangkok, 1999); Le Jardin, La Ville, La Mmoire (with Laurence Boss and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Villa Medici, Rome, 1998-2000); Laboratorium (with Barbara Vandelinden, Antwerp Open, 1999); Sogni/Dreams (with Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Rebaudengo, 1999); Retrace your steps: Remember tomorrow (Sir John Soanes Museum, London 1999-2000); Rumor City (Fri Art, Fribourg and Mutations,Arc en Reve, Bordeaux, 2000). Obrist is one of the curators of Mutations: Evenement culturel sur la ville contemporaine (co-curated with Rem Koolhaas, Sanford Kwinter, Stefano Boeri) Arc en Reve, Bordeaux, 2000/2001. In 2001 he curated Bridge the Gap (with Akiko Miyake and Nobuo Nakamura, CCA, Kitakyushu). He has edited the writings of Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, Gilbert and George, Maria Lassnig and Leon Golub.

Olu Oguibe has lived and practiced on three continents as an artist, art historian, critic, exhibitions curator and poet. He has also taught literature, art, and art history in universities and colleges including Goldsmiths College London, University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of South Florida where he held the Stuart Golding Endowed Chair in African Art. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in major galleries and museums around the world, as well as biennials and triennials. He has curated exhibitions for the Tate Modern in London, the City Museum in Mexico City, the Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa, and the Latere of the Venice Biennial, among others. In 1997 he organized the international conference for the Johannesburg Biennial. Oguibe is also a recording musician as well as author of many books including three award-winning volumes of poetry. He edited Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art for six years, and writes regularly on new information technology and other matters. His most recent book is Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace [MIT Press, 2000] Oguibe was born in Nigeria. He lives in New York.

Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Freelance curator and agent. Founding director of TEOR/éTica, a space devoted to research and promotion of contemporary art in San José, Costa Rica. From 1994 to 1998 she was the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in San José, with major expositions including MESóTICA I, II and III. She has participated as curator in various Biennials, including Lima, Sao Paulo, Cuenca and Venice, amongst others. She has numerous publications, including Centroamérica y el Caribe: Una historia en blanco y negro (regional catalog for Sao Paulo 1998) and her most recent, Curatorial Options and Strategies in Central America: The Case of the Mesóticas (in Globalization and Latin American Art, to be published soon). She participates regularly as a speaker in symposia, biennials and seminars, and writes for periodicals as a critic, essayist and editor, and for exposition catalogs.

Christoph Tannert. Curator and Art Critic. Born in Leipzig (Saxonia / East Germany), 1955. Studied archeology and history of art in Berlin, Humboldt University. Magister Artium in 1981. Career: free lance Art Critic for print media and radio since 1981; Curator for Exhibitions: "L'autre Allemagne hors les murs", Paris, La Villette (1990); "Change of gait", Ann Arbor, Detroit, Windsor, Toronto, Columbus, Berlin, Chicago, New York (1990-1992); "Die Endlichkei der Freiheit / The infinity of freedom", Berlin (1991); "Trigon 8 x 2 aus 7", Graz, Aarau, Prag, Leipzig (1991/92); "Zeit-Mauer / Timewall", London, Gera, Berlin (1992/93); "Berlin Art Scene, A double mentality", Tokyo, Amagasaki, Iwaki, Kitakyushu, Niigata,Tokushima, Hiroshima, Kamakura, Hongkong, Singapore (1991-1993); "Echtzeit / Off Beat / Tysk Utakt, Positions in German Art", Oslo, Museet for Samtidskunst (1992); "Getting to kNOw you, Sexual insurrection and resistance", Berlin, Knstlerhaus Bethanien (1992); "FONTANELLE, Kunst in (x) Zwischenfllen", Potsdam, Kunstspeicher (1993); "Minimal Curating / ZIG LEIBERL NIP", Leipzig, Stdtisches Kaufhaus (1993); "Martin Kippenberger: Das 2. Sein", Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam (1994); "Le Shuttle, Tunnelrealitten Paris London Berlin", Berlin, Knstlerhaus Bethanien (1994); "Linien & Zeichen", Berlin, Knstlerhaus Bethanien (1996); Gallery by Night, Stdi Galria, Budapest (together with Christoph Doswald, Maria Lind, Gregor Podnar) (1998); FORMULE2, Berlin, Knstlerhaus Bethanien (together with Peter Henkes, Iris Dik, Heike Dander) (1998); Ortsbegehung 5 (Eberhard Havekost, Frank Nitsche, Thomas Scheibitz), Berlin, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (1999); 2nd Biennal of sculpture, Mnsterland Programme Coordinator of Knstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin since 1991 (2001). Director of Knstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin since January 2000. Published many articles on visual arts, rock music, film and video art.

Gilda Williams. Gilda Williams is a critic and curator of contemporary art and photography. Formerly Managing Editor of Flash Art International, she is currently Commissioning Editor of contemporary art at Phaidon Press. Williams' most recent publication is a monograph on Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov (Phaidon, 2001).

Joseba Zulaika. (Gipuzkoa, Spain 1948) Philosopher and anthropologist. He is currently professor and director of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has had numerous publications going back to 1972, in books and journals, including the book Crnica de una seduccin: El Museo Guggenheim-Bilbao (Nerea, 1997, Madrid). He has been invited to participate as a speaker in several cities in Europe and the United States of America. He is a member of the American Association of Anthropology, the European Anthropology Society, the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, the Society for Basque Studies, and the Association of Basque Anthropologists.

Moderators:

Karen Cordero Reiman. Full-time professor in the Art Department at the Iberoamerican University since 1985, a professor for graduate studies in art history at the National University of Mexico since 1986, and is a founding member of Curare, Espacio Crtico para las Artes. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.), and a masters degree and doctorate at Yale University (Connecticut, U.S.A). She is the author of many publications on Mexican XX Century art, particularly regarding the relations between so-called cultured art and popular art, and more recently on the historiography of Mexican art and the body, gender and sexual identity in Mexican art. She has also had a constant participation in the museum sphere, with curating, consulting and research activities.

Olivier Debroise (Jerusalem, 1952) is one of the best-known curators and art critics in Mexico, and a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Artes del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. In exhibitions and monographs, he has explored the work of numerous 20th century Mexican painters, including Abraham Angel, Mara Izquierdo, Alfonso Michel, and Roberto Montenegro. His major curatorial projects include El corazn sangrante/The Bleeding Heart, for The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1991; Portrait of a Decade: David Alfaro Siqueiros 1930-1940, for the Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, 1996; and InSITE97: A Binational Exhibition of Site-Specific Installations, San Diego-Tijuana, 1997. He has also worked extensively in the field of modern and contemporary photography; his most important book on the topic, Fuga Mexicana, un recorrido por la fotografa en Mxico (Mexico City, 1994) was recently published by the University of Texas Press under the title Mexican Suite: Photography in Mexico. Debroise is the author of Diego de Montparnasse (Mexico City, 1979), Figuras en el trpico (Mexico City, 1984), and three novels. Crnica de las destrucciones, his most recent novel, won the Premio Colima in 1998. He wrote and directed Banquet at Tetlapayac (released 2000), an experimental feature length film based on Sergei Eisensteins Mexican years that has traveled to numerous film festivals in Mexico and abroad. As Director of Curare: Espacio Crtico para las Artes from 1993 to 1997, and in subsequent projects, Debroise has played a crucial role in the debates on Mexicos role in global culture in the 1990s.

María Inés García Canal.Professor and researcher at the Metropolitan University Xochimilco Unit, in the area of Social Psychology, Groups and Institutions, since 1980. She has been the coordinator of the seminar on Image at the CENDIDIAP National Arts Center, since 1991. A tireless reader of Michel Foucault, the issues of concern to her revolve around power, aesthetics and questions of gender. Her publications include El loco, el guerrero y el artista, Fabulaciones sobre la obra de Michel Foucault, Plaza y Valds-UAM, Mxico 1990; El Seor de las Uvas. Cultura y gnero, UAM-Xochimilco, Mxico, 1997; and as co-author with Humberto ChvezMayol, El Tiro de Gracia. Repeticin y muerte en la fotografa, Conaculta, Mxico, 1998. She has published numerous articles in Mexican and foreign journals.

Francisco Reyes Palma. Historian. He is a researcher for CENIDIAP-INBA and founding member of CURARE, of which he is the President. He has participated in various curatorial projects and exposition catalogs. He is the author of social history studies on museums, education and artistic training in Mexico, and on writers such as Leopoldo Mndez, Pablo OHiggins, Diego Rivera, Mathias Goeritz, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Jos Clemente Orozco. Amongst his most recent publications are: Julio Galn. El Juego de las Profanaciones (1998, CONACULTA); Mariana Yampolsky. Imagen-Memoria (1999, Centro de la Imagen); Pablo OHiggins. De Esttica y Soberana (1999, Federal District Government). He is the coordinator of the electronic journal Panoramas (Artes plsticas en la ciudad de Mxico y Algunas excepciones).

Osvaldo Sánchez. Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1958. He is a Mexican citizen, and has lived in Mexico since 1990. He studied art history at the University of Havana, and was a professor at San Alejandro Academy and the Havana Art Institute from 1984 to 1989. He was Assistant Director of Plastic Arts for the Festival Internacional Cervantino (1990-1998), a columnist on plastic arts for the newspaper, Reforma (1994-1996), and Director of the IV International Forum on Contemporary Art Theory FITAC (1995-1996), which was held for five consecutive years in Guadalajara. In 1997 he held the position of Director of International Cultural Information in Mexicos National Council for Culture and the Arts. From 1998 to 2001 he was Director of the Carrillo Gil Art Museum and more recently Director of the Tamayo Museum. His essays and articles on Mexican and Latin American art have appeared in Third Text, ArtNexus/Arte en Colombia, Polister, Curare, Arte Internacional, Revista de Occidente, Sulfur, etc. He attended the international program for museum directors given by the New York Museum of Modern Art (1998). He was a fellow of Mexicos National Fund for Culture and the Arts as an art critic (1995) and of the IADBs First Competition for Young Painters, the VII Photography Biennial and the Central American Biennial in Costa Rica. He has given courses and lectures on contemporary and Latin American art in the University of Guadalajara in Mexico, and in universities in Austin, Texas, and Alicante, Spain; in the Mexico City Cultural Center for Contemporary Art, the ARCO Fair in Madrid, the Monterrey Pinacoteca and Museum, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, the Center for Art and Communications in Buenos Aires; and in the Queen Sofia Art Center in Madrid, amongst others. He has published essays and articles about numerous Mexican artists and other artists working in Mexico. He was co-curator for the international project on public art, inSITE 2000.

Guillermo Santamarina. A communications specialist, he has worked for government and private institutions since 1960 and has participated extensively in alternative missions as a freelance curator. He has organized more than 60 expositions of contemporary art, both in Mexico and abroad. His focus has been on teaching, giving workshops on museology, art theory and experimentation for a number of educational organizations. He has been invited to participate in seminars by various institutions in his country and in Europe and America to share ideas about Mexican contemporary art and about the possibilities for action in curatorial practice. He served as director of four meetings of the International Forum on Contemporary Art Theory (FITAC) in Guadalajara (1991-94) and as co-director of the International Forum on Contemporary Art Journals in 1999. He was a jury member for several national and international competitions. Currently he is co-curator of the 21/Zones Project and was the author of two special shows in New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico (PR00) in 2000. He has written art criticism and is the author of many texts published in brochures, catalogs and international anthologies. Founder and director of the Corpus Callosum Project, Guadalajara (1993-95). He co-directed Casa de Agua (1997-98). Since 1998, he has been the director of the Ex Teresa Arte Actual cultural center (INBA / CNCA). He teaches in workshops and theoretical and practical seminars on visual art in independent institutions and organizations in this country and others. In 2001 he participated in the master conference on Global and Local. The Condition of Art Practice Now (Tate Modern). He was curator of the Asamblea de chrysanthmes en chrysanthmes show, Paris, 2001. He is a member of the advisory committee for the first International Symposium on Contemporary Art Theory, Mexico, 2002.

Director:
Ery Camara. Artist, art critic and museologist, born in Senegal. Since 1975 he has resided in Mexico City, where he studied art restoration and museology. He has been a speaker in a number of national and international colloquiums, seminars, and forums on museology and art, including: the Dakar Biennale, Senegal (1992); XXVIII Congress of the International Association of Art Critics in Stockholm, Sweden (1994); the Havana Biennale, Cuba (1994); the Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa (1995); and in the FITAC theoretical forums, Expo Art, Guadalajara, Mexico (1993, 1995 and 1996). He also participated in various cultural and artistic projects in the Cultural Olympiads in Atlanta, Ga.; Conversations at the Castle, USA (1996); Mirarte Art Fair in Bogot, Colombia (1996); and CELAFI, ANBAIA, Toronto, Canada (1997). In addition, he was a guest speaker on the program, One Hundred Guests, One Hundred Days in Documenta X, in Kassel, Germany (1997). Residence in Chicago, French Lyce: Project, Identifier lAutre travers le language, Art and Criticism Forum, organized in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (2000); 7th Havana Biennale, Nov. (2000); International Art Seminar in the Atlantic Modern Art Center in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, La imaginacin cultural del siglo XX, un recuento, March 2001. President of the Jury for the 49th Venice Biennial (2001). Invited by CIMAM (International Committee of Modern Art Museums) as a speaker at the ICOM General Assembly, Barcelona (2001). Director of the International Symposium on Contemporary Art organized by the Patronato de Arte Contemporneo, of which he is a member, and INBA for January (2002). During his career he has published articles and essays in catalogs, books and journals in Mexico, United States, Germany, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, France, Cuba, England, Canary Islands and South Africa. As a museologist, he has held the position of assistant director of three major government museums in Mexico City: the National Museum for the Viceroy Era, the National Peoples Arts Museum, and the National Anthropology Museum. He was also assistant technical director for the Dolores Olmedo Museum. At present, as a freelance curator, he serves as an adviser for projects carried out by public and private institutions and in organizing national and international expositions. He is also a professor of museology in the Universidad Iberoamericanas museum masters program, and of art history in its undergraduate program and in other institutions such as Casa Lamm, both in Mexico City.