GEMMA ARGUELLO MANRESA

Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). I am researcher for the National Research System (Level 1) in Mexico, and Chair of the Feminist Caucus and Social Media Editor for the American Society for Aesthetics. I work on Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Political Philosophy and Feminist Studies.

I have been a member of various research projects at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, where I was Visiting Professor in the Digital Art and Media Program, the Institute of Philosophical Research at UNAM, where I was Postdoctoral Fellow, and the Department of Philosophy at UNAM.

Currently, I am working on a research for a book on social practice art. I am member of the project “Medium and Species: Ecology and evolution from the perspective of natural philosophy” at UNAM and I am co-organizing the project “Intersectional and Decolonial Feminism and Violence in America” as a result of a collaboration between UNAM and Northwestern University.

I am also member of the research and artistic group Arte + Ciencia. I have worked as an independent curator for many contemporary art museums and exhibition venues and I am currently co-curating an exhibition program based on participatory art at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City.

Publications on Philosophy of Digital Art

2016 “Imagining spatially in Computer-Based Art.” In: Everardo Reyes-Garcia, Pierre Châtel-Innocenti, Khaldoun Zreik (Eds.). Archiving and Questioning Immateriality, Paris: Europia, pp. 286-296.

2014 Comunidades Alternas en el Arte. Espacio, memoria y archivo en el arte relacional. Co-edited with Mónica Benítez, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (ISBN: 97860728028411). (English Title: Alternative Communities in Art. Space, Memory and Archive in Relational Art).

2016 “El espacio social en las prácticas artísticas mediadas por computadora”. In: Celia Riboulet (Coord.), Encuentros. Arte y nuevos medios en las prácticas artísticas contemporáneas, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Lerma, pp. 115-125 (English Title: Social space in computer mediated art).

2015 “Participatory computer-based art and distributed creativity the case of tactical media.” Fabian Dorsch and Dan-Eugen Ratiu (Eds.), Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics Vol. 7, Fribourg: The European Society for Aesthetics, University of Fribourg, pp. 46-67.

2015 “Relational Architecture: ‘Voz Alta’ (Loud Voice).” In: Jakub Petri (Ed.). Performing Cultures Krakow: Institute of Philosophy of Jagiellonian University, pp. 43-52.

2015 “Cocreatividad: prácticas artísticas colaborativas en la red.” In Mónica Benítez (Ed.) Comunidades y contextos en las teorías y practices artísticas contemporáneas, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Lerma, pp. 62-74 (English Title: Co-creativity: collaborative web-based artistic practices).

2014 “Geografías imaginadas. Voces amplificadas en el espacio.” In: Mónica Benítez and Gemma Argüello (Eds.), Comunidades Alternas en el Arte. Espacio, memoria y archivo en el arte relacional. Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, pp. 25-64 (English Title: Imaginary Geographies. Amplified Voices in the Space).