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• Alejandro Quinteros was born in Lima, Peru in 1968. He is an electronic media artist-sculptor, informal architectbuilder, researcher, and sailboat rescuer-fixer based in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Lima, Perú. He is a professor at the Department of Fine Arts at The University of Puerto Rico. He created The Art and Technology Workshop ARTEC and teaches interactive design, physical computing, photography, 3D design, 4D time-arts, trans-technological practices, sculpture and spatial practices. His work has been exhibited in Cairo, Chicago, New York, Canada, Barcelona, France, Perú, México, Serbia, Greece, and Puerto Rico. He received a BFA and a MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 1993 and a PhD from The School of Art, Design and Architecture. University of Plymouth, UK. His PhD thesis researches the syncretic practices that arise from the conflicts and intersections between art and architecture’s socio-spatial practices in the site of marginalized communities in Latin America. He is currently working on a book on the role of the artist as a colonizer agent and in association with Casa Taft on assembling the City-Lab: Art-Design and Intervention, a centre for research and critical pedagogy on socially engaged spatial practices. He continues to work on sailboats in the Caribbean and dwellings in the mountains of Puerto Rico and in the highlands of Perú.