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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.