About

With more than three decades of practice across art, technology, and scholarship, José-Carlos Mariátegui is a recognised voice on the intersection of culture, technology, and society. He is the founder of Alta Tecnología Andina – ATA, a pioneering organisation founded in 1995 working at the crossroads of art, science, technology, and society in Latin America. His curatorial and research work spans more than 40 exhibitions across 25 cities, and his writing has appeared in journals including AI & Society, Cambridge Forum on AI, Third Text, The Information Society, Leonardo, e-flux, and Telos.

Passionate about recovering invisible histories of technology from the Global South, José-Carlos’s multidisciplinary research embraces the history of cybernetics, media archaeology, archives, and the impact of technology on memory institutions. He is an Adjunct Professor at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, where he teaches on the governance of digital markets and technologies in Europe. He is also a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, a Member of the Advisory Board (Kuratorium) of ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, a Board Member of FutureEverything (UK), and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident (2025). He also chairs the Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI Education Committee.

Alongside his scholarly and curatorial practice, José-Carlos serves as Director of the José Carlos Mariátegui Archive— the archive of his grandfather, considered Latin America’s most original and influential Marxist thinkers— a role that grounds his work in a long commitment to archives and memory institutions, particularly those that preserve hidden, activist, and radical histories that dominant narratives have sought to suppress or forget.

Contact: jcm at ata dot org dot pe
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