Dr. José-Carlos Mariátegui is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications and a Lecturer at LUISS Guido Carli (Rome).
Dr. Mariátegui is the founder of Alta Tecnología Andina – ATA (Lima, Peru), an organization working at the intersection of art, science, technology and society in Latin America and a Board Member of Future Everything (UK). A former Board Member of the Museo de Arte de Lima - MALI (2013-2021), he chairs MALI’s Education Committee, and leads the museum’s digital strategy.
Dr. Mariátegui has published in journals such as AI & Society, Third Text, The Information Society, Telos and Leonardo. Is currently Editorial Board member for Leonardo Books at MIT Press, Associate Editor of AI & Society (UK). In addition, he has an extensive curatorial practice. One of his latest exhibitions, “Quántica /Broken Symmetries” (co-curated with Monica Bello), explores transdisciplinary artistic practice in interaction with scientists at CERN (touring in Liverpool, Barcelona, Brussels, Taichung and Tallinn). Other curatorial work include: “River Voices”, a digital project for the 23rd Biennale of Sydney (Sydney, 2022); “VIDEO-TRANSLATIONS: gazes x spaces 13 video installations by Peruvian artists” (Madrid, 2019); “POETRÓNICO. Gianni Toti and the origins of video poetry” (Lima, 2015-2016); “Rosa Barba: Performativity of Presence” (Buenos Aires, 2014); “Lima: all the republic in one: Jose Carlos Martinat” (Shanghai Biennale, 2012); “VideoXXI - Lemaitre Collection" (Lima, 2010); "Emergentes" (touring in Spain and Latin American, 2007-2009), “Videografias In(visibles)” (touring in Spain and Latin American, 2005-2007).
For the last 30 years his multidisciplinary research embraced media archaeology, digitization, video archives and the impact of technology in memory institutions. He has also conducted original research on media organisations, digital and audiovisual archives in Latin America. During his PhD at the Department of Management at the LSE, he researched the implementation of the Digital Media Initiative (DMI) at the BBC, studying the impact of digital video on audiovisual and news productions.
His current research projects include extensive original research on key breakthroughs in cybernetics which occurred in Latin America between the 1950s and early 1980s, a period of intense creative, technological, and political changes, which also provided a platform for interdisciplinary communication and international exchanges. He is also researching, based on a comparative study, the impact of digitalisation in both media organisations and memory institutions, taking into account the management of information and the preservation of digital archives.