José-Carlos Mariátegui
José-Carlos Mariátegui is a writer, curator, scholar and entrepreneur on culture and technology.
He holds both Masters and Doctoral degrees in Information Systems and Innovation from the London School of Economics and Political Science – LSE (London). 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. He is an Adjunct Professor at LUISS (Rome), a Member of the Advisory Board (Kuratorium) of the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Germany), and chairs the Museo de Arte de Lima - MALI Education Committee. Among other positions, he was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE, a Board Member of Future Everything (UK), and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident. Has published in journals such as AI & Society, Cambridge Forum on Al, Third Text, The Information Society, Telos, e-flux and Leonardo. His multidisciplinary research embraces the history of cybernetics, media archaeology, digitization, archives and the impact of technology in memory institutions. A central strand of his work is the recovery, preservation and study of endangered experimental audiovisual heritage in Latin America.
He co-edited a special issue for AI & Society on Cybernetics in Latin America (2022) and recently edited the book Digital Museum. Intelligences and Artifices (UNAM, 2025) and The Rafael Hastings Film Project (ICPNA, 2025). He has curated more than 40 exhibitions in 25 cities; most recently: ARTEONICA*: Art, Science, and Technology in Latin America Today (MOLAA, Long Beach, 2024 - 2025), El incondicionado desocultamiento: las experimentaciones audiovisuales de Rafael Hastings (ICPNA San Miguel, Lima, 2025) and El pensamiento es un jardín híbrido. El archivo Mariotti - Luy (MALI and MAC, Lima, 2025).
