Dr. Alejandro Quinteros Melendez

Dr. Alejandro Quinteros Melendez (Lima, Peru,1968)
Arte y tecnología
alejandro.quinteros@upr.edu

He is an electronic media artist-sculptor, informal architect-builder, 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 an MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 1993 and a PhD in Social architecture 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 center for research and critical pedagogy on socially engaged spatial practices. He continues to work and live on sailboats in the Caribbean and dwellings in the mountains of Puerto Rico and in the highlands of Perú.