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Ramon Alberch i Fugueras has a degree and a PhD in History. He was the co-founder and president of the non-governmental organization Archivists Without Frontiers (1998-2005 and 2012-2020) and the president of the Municipal Archives Section (2000-2004) of the International Archives Council (ICA-SMA).

He was the director of the Municipal Archive of Girona (1978-1989), the Municipal Archive of Barcelona (1990-2004), the Municipal Institute of History of Barcelona (1992-1997), and the president of the Association of Archivists of Catalonia (1986-1993). He directed the archives systems of Catalonia (2004-2010) and was the director of the Graduate School of Archival and Records Management of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2002-2016).

He is a guest professor at the following universities: Autonomous, Barcelona, Carlos III, Madrid, Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, IGlobal, Santo Domingo and Pontifícia Javeriana, Bogotá. He has been a member of the International Advisory Council of the National Centre for Historical Memory in Colombia (2015-2018) and an international advisor to Special Jurisdiction for Peace in Colombia (2019-2020). He is a member of the Management Committee of the Archives and Human Rights Section (ICA-SAHR) of the International Council of Archives.

He is also a member of the technical Committee 50/SC1 of the Spanish Association for Standardization-AENOR, of the Group of Experts of the Ibero-American University Teaching Network-RIBEAU and Coordinator of the Cultural Dynamization of Archives Working Group of the Association of Latin-American Archivists. At the Archivistics Symposium held in Rome (September 2022) he was awarded the distinction of “ICA Fellow”, the highest recognition awarded by the International Council of Archives.

He has been a speaker at numerous conferences and symposia and the author of 40 archivistics and history essays and manuals. His latest works are: “Archivos y Archiveros en la literatura y el cine” (in collaboration with Rocío Ponce Almeida, 2021) and he has coordinated the book “Del hilo al ovillo. Poder y resistencia de los archivos” (2021).

Ernst van Alphen is professor emeritus at Leiden University. His many publications include the following books: Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self (1992), Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature and Theory (1997), Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in Times of New Media (2014, also translated into Spanish), Failed Images. Photography and Its Counter-Practices (2019; also translated into Spanish), Seven Logics of Sculpture (2022), Productive Archiving: Artistic Strategies, Future Memories, and Fluid Identities (in press).

Philippe Artières researcher in history at the CNRS (Iris/EHESS, Paris-Condorcet), has devoted his research to the contemporary history of writing, about which he has published various works, including La experiencia escrita. Estudios sobre la cultura escrita contemporánea 1871-1981, (Buenos Aires, 2019).

Beatrice von Bismarck is professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the Academy of Fine Arts (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst) Leipzig, where she also teaches visual culture and cultures of the curatorial. Previously, she worked as a curator in the department of 20th-century art at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt and taught at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg, where she was co-founder and co-director of the Kunstraum. In Leipzig, she was initiator of the MA program Cultures of the Curatorial, which began in autumn 2009. She also co-conceived and co-directed the 5th Moscow Curatorial Summer School (2016) and the itinerant TRANScuratorial Academy, which toured from Berlin to Mumbai and Phnom Penh in 2017-2018. In 2018 she was Philippe Jabre Visiting Professor of Art History and Curating at the American University of Beirut. For her research project on the “Curatorial” she was awarded the Opus Magnum Fellowship of the Volkswagen Stiftung, Hannover (2015-2017).

Publications include Cultures of the Curatorial (ed. with Jörn Schafaff and Thomas Weski), 2012; Timing - On the Temporal Dimension of Exhibiting (ed. with Rike Frank, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Jörn Schafaff, and Thomas Weski), 2014; Hospitality - Hosting Relations in Exhibitions, (ed. with Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer), 2016 (all Sternberg Press, Berlin); Now–Tomorrow–Flux: An Anthology on the Museum of Contemporary Art (ed. with Heike Munder and Peter J. Schneemann), JRP|Ringier, Zurich 2017; Curatorial Things (ed. with Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer), Berlin 2019, and O(f)f Our Times: Curatorial Anachronics, (ed. with Rike Frank), Sternberg Press, Berlin 2019. She has just edited the volume "Archives on Show. Revoicing, Shapeshifting, Displacing - A Curatorial Glossary, 2022 (Archive Books, Berlin) and her monograph, "The Curatorial Condition", came out in 2022 (Sternberg Press, London).

José Luis Bonal Zazo has a PhD in Documentation from the University of Salamanca, a degree in Geography and History (specializing in Medieval History) and a Diploma in Library and Information Science from the same university.

He is currently a lecturer in the Faculty of Documentation and Communication Sciences at the University of Extremadura (Department of Information and Communication) where he has taught since 1995 and has received two teaching excellence awards.

He has participated in teaching activities at other Ibero-American Universities: University of Salamanca, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana in Santiago de Chile, University of Seville, International University of Andalucía, Universidad de la Salle in Bogotá, Universidade Federal de Santa María (Marilía), University of Coimbra, Carlos III University in Madrid, Universidad Estadual Paulista, and Universidade Federal Fluminense in Río de Janeiro.

From 2014 to 2022 he was head of the University of Extremadura’s Documentation Sciences Faculty Quality System. He has also taken part in processes of verification, accreditation and certification of university qualifications carried out by various university quality agencies.

He is the author of different articles to do with the theory and practice of archivistics, paying special attention to archive description. He is the author of the book La descripción archivística normalizada and co-author of works such as Manual de Descripción Multinivel, Curso de Archivo y Documentación o Estudos avanzados de Arquivologia.

Pilar Cuerva She has a degree in Geography and History (UNED, 1999), a Master’s in Strategic Knowledge and Information Management in Organizations (GEICO), a Higher Diploma in Archival and Records management (ESAGED), a Post-graduate degree in Electronic Records Management (ESAGED-UAB), a Post-graduate degree in New Trends in Information management (UJI) and a diploma of Specialist Higher Studies in Comparative, Social, political and Cultural History and in Research Aptitude (UAB).

On a professional level, she was the promoter and director of the Information Management Project (GIM) and the Information Resources coordinator (RIM) of the Museu Marítim in Barcelona (2010-2018), and the manager of that institution’s archive (2007-2018).

She has coordinated the biennial Jornada de museus, gestió documental i arxiu (2008-2018) and the symposium El repertorio iconográfico [de Arte] de España (2022): La aventura de documentar el patrimonio. She has been a teacher on courses related to archivistics and records management and has taken part in discussion panels and as a speaker in various archive, library and museum forums, such as the Congrés d’Arxivística de Catalunya (2013), the Jornades Catalanes d’Informació i Documentació (2018), and Encuentros de Centros de Documentación de Arte Contemporáneo (2016 and 2022), among others.

Sílvia Domènech Fernández Fernández is a historian and archivist, with over 30 years’ experience in the conservation and diffusion of the documentary and photographic patrimony of museums and archives. She was the Director of the Photographic Archive of Barcelona from 1997 to 2007, and has been head of the Research and Knowledge Centre of the Museu Picasso in Barcelona since 2010. Since the beginning of her professional career, she has combined the management of the patrimony with university lecturing on archives and photographic collections, as well as other cultural diffusion activities. She is the author of Tesaure BIMA (1997), and of various articles and monographs on reflection and praxis with regard to photography, archives, and the life and work of Pablo Picasso. She is the co-author of Norma de Descripció Arxivística de Catalunya (2007) and Manual del mètode de descripció del sistema AIDA (2003). She was the director of the project and the publication Barcelona fotografiada: 160 anys de registre i representació (2007), and the curator of exhibitions on photography and archivistic practice, especially about Barcelona or Pablo Picasso, such as: Amadeu i Audouard, fotografies d’escena (1997); Montjuïc 1915, primera mirada (2007); Picasso 1936. Empremtes d’una exposició (2011); El Museu Picasso. 50 anys a Barcelona. Els orígens (2013); Lucien Clergue. Vint-i-set encontres amb Picasso (2017); David Douglas Duncan. La mirada còmplice (2018) and Brigitte Baer. Picasso i els gravats (2022).

Michael Karabinos is a lecturer of Archival and Information Studies at the University of Amsterdam with a research focus on colonial, seized and displaced archives. He received his PhD from the Leiden University Institute for History. From 2016-2019 he was a Deviant Practice research fellow at the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, the Netherlands), where he has developed and curated exhibitions on the museum’s colonial roots using archival material. He is currently a member of the Collecting Otherwise working group at Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and is involved with various archival projects with the museum’s National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning. His work has been published in the book Displaced Archives as well as the journals Information & Culture, and Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde and Archival Science, among others. He is co-editor of the book Colonial Legacy in Southeast Asia: The Dutch Archives.

Eric Ketelaar is Professor Emeritus at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. From 1997 to 2009 he was Professor of Archivistics in the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam. As an honorary fellow of his former department, he continues his research, concerned mainly with the social and cultural contexts of records creation and use. His latest book is Archiving People: A Social History of Dutch Archives (2020) (free download from https://archivistics.home.blog/2019/12/14/new-e-book/).
Eric Ketelaar was General State Archivist (National Archivist) of The Netherlands from 1989-1997. He held the Archivistics chair in the Department of History, University of Leiden, 1992-2002 (part-time). See www.archivistics.nl

Laura Millar has worked as a consultant for nearly 40 years, in the fields of records, archives, and information management; education and training; and editing, writing, and publishing. She received her Master of Archival Studies degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 1984, and her PhD in Archive Studies from University College London in 1996.

Laura has consulted with governments in such diverse countries as Canada, Bermuda, Trinidad and Tobago, Hong Kong and Ghana, and she has worked with universities, colleges and other educational institutions in Canada and internationally. She has also provided consulting services to churches, non-profit organizations, First Nations governments, international associations and other agencies. She was the Managing Editor for the International Records Management Trust, writing and developing a series of training resources on records and archives management, completed in 1999, and she oversaw development of a second series on electronic records management, completed in 2009.

Laura taught for many years in the fields of records and archives management and editing and is the author of dozens of publications and presentations on various topics related to records, archives, editing and education. Her books include The Story Behind the Book: Preserving Authors’ and Publishers’ Archives, (CCSP Press, 2009) and Archives: Principles and Practices (Facet, 2010, rev. ed. 2017). She received the Society of American Archivists’ Waldo Gifford Leland Award in 2011 for Archives: Principles and Practices, for ‘writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, or practice.’ .

Perejaume (Sant Pol de Mar, 1957) Perejaume is an artist and writer. His work combines painting, sculpture, the written word, action, video and sound, questioning the relationships between nature and culture. In 2005 he was awarded the Generalitat de Catalunya’s National Prize for the Visual Arts, and in 2006, the Ministry of Culture’s National Prize for the Plastic Arts. Among his best-known interventions and exhibitions are the medallions in the Gran Teatre del Liceu (1999), the retrospectives Deixar de fer una exposició (MACBA, 1999), Ai Perejaume, si veies la munió d’obres que t’envolten, no en faries cap de nova! (La Pedrera, 2011) and maniobra de Perejaume (MNAC, 2015). His books include Pagèsiques (Edicions 62, 2011, City of Barcelona prize and Lletra d’Or Prize, 2012), Paraules locals (Tushita edicions, 2015), and Treure una marededéu a ballar (Galàxia Gutenberg, 2018).

Debora Rossi Graduated in Law from the University of Padua and PhD in Roman and Classical Law. Following her legal traineeship at the Avvocatura Distrettuale dello Stato in Venice, she became a member of the Venice Bar Association - Albo degli Avvocati di Venezia – Elenco speciale degli Avvocati degli Enti.

She is currently Managing Director of Human Resources, Legal and Institutional Affairs at La Biennale di Venezia, as well as Deputy Director General of the institution. She is also Head of the Historical Archives of La Biennale di Venezia– ASAC.

She has worked at La Biennale since 1996, first as the Legal Office Manager, supervising the planning and management of the legal affairs, contracts and in-house procedures within La Biennale di Venezia Foundation, and in particular within its specific departments: Arts, Architecture, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theatre and the Historical Archives (ASAC).

Since 2009 she has been the Executive Manager for the reorganization and enhancement of the collections of the Historical Archives. As the Head of the Historical Archives, she is also responsible for the project to create the International Centre for Research on the Contemporary Arts at the same archive. She has worked as an assistant professor for the chairs of Roman Law Institutions and History of Roman Law. She is the author of many articles on specialized topics and on public contracts. From 2016 to 2019, she was a member of the Board of Ales SpA

Mireia c. Saladrigues (Terrassa, 1978) is an artist and researcher or, rather, an artist-researcher.
Her projects are constructed from wide-ranging processes of research, and the particular methodologies of research are based on artistic practice.

Saladrigues is a candidate for the International Doctoral Programme (DFA) of the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts (Uniarts) Helsinki. Behaving Unconventionally in Gallery Settings records cases of alteration (human and non-human) in cultural practices, proposing an artistic and theoretical rereading of non-conformity.

Her professional career is widely recognized. The most recent grants are from the Suomen Kulttuurirahasto (2022), Taike (2021) and Beques Premi Ciutat de Barcelona (2021). She has just finished a residency at the Spanish Royal Academy in Rome (2021-2022).

Her work has been exhibited in solo and collective exhibitions in Europe, the United States and Asia. Her work is in the collections of the Fons Nacional de Catalunya, MACBA and ICUB, and also in private collections.

Catarina Simão (b. 1972 in Lisbon) ) is a Portuguese artist living and working between Portugal and Mozambique.

Simão’s practice is built upon long-term research projects that entail collaborative partnerships and different forms of presentation to the public. Heavily influenced by the narratives of history, Simão started in 2009 a strong connection with Mozambique and its institutional memory. Her research on the Mozambique's Liberation Struggle resulted in videos and installations that resort to a re-appropriation of photography, documentation and film footage, creating pieces such as These Are the Weapons (2012), Mueda 79 (2013), Effects of Wording (2014) and Ntimbe Caetano (2016). Simão's work is shown internationally since 2009, namely at Serralves Museum, Manifesta 8, Reina Sofia Museum, Ashkal Alwan, New Museum, Kiev School, EVA International, transit Gallery, Garage Museum, 17 Istanbul Biennial, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, among others.

In her solo exhibition R-Humor (Galeria Av. Da Índia, 2020, Lisbon), Simão approached the silencing and suspension of information, such as censorship and humour, appearing as a form of relation in the face of the incompleteness of the archive. She is currently developing in Lamego, Portugal, the Sala Colonial project (2021-2023) upon invitation of Lamego Museum and Escola Secundária de Latino Coelho; within this project, Simão pedagogically examines the resistance of the colonial archive in conceiving the very idea of representation in its link to violence, in view of its dominant tradition and routines. In Mozambique, the artist develops her intervention in a social context through collaboration with civil associations and institutions such as the National Film Institute (INICC) and Centro de Estudos Africanos of Universidade Eduardo Mondlane. She codirected a film for Mozambican TV called Djambo in 2016, and in 2019, she co-organized with Oficina de História (Mozambique) the 1st Seminar on Restitution of Cultural Heritage to Mozambique (CCFM, May 2019)

Núria Solé Bardalet (b. Calafell, 1976) She graduated in Art History and Italian Philology from the University of Barcelona. Since 2020 she has been the archivist of the Research and Knowledge Centre of the Museu Picasso in Barcelona.

From 2008 to 2020 she was head of the Archive Department of the Antoni Tàpies Foundation, where she took part in the creation of the ‘Arts Combinatòries’ archive project directed by Laurence Rassel. In those years she coordinated the European projects ‘Performing the Museum’ and ‘4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality Through Creativity and Culture’. At the Antoni Tàpies Foundation Archive, with curatorship by Oriol Fontdevila, she promoted and designed the educational project ‘Prototips en codi obert’, where archive practice in relation to contemporary art was the theme of reflection.

In 2022, together with Sílvia Domènech and Emmanuel Guigon, she curated the exhibition ‘Brigitte Baer: Picasso and Engravings’.

Jorge Blasco Gallardo (Barcelona, 1972), is a researcher, writer and independent curator. He has devoted most of his career to the study of archives and their activations, and everything having to do with the verb to archive.

He has been an advisor to the Territorio archivo project of the FCAYC (Leon), with which he regularly collaborates. Examples are the curation of the exhibition Mesuras or his consulting for the creation of the aforementioned institution’s document management system.

As a teacher he has dedicated himself to the didactic development of everything that is not art, but without which it could not exist (Elisava University School, Barcelona).

His best known work is the Archive Cultures project in its four editions (Fundació Antoni Tàpies, University of Valencia, University of Salamanca, Regional Government of Castile-Leon) under the titles: Archive Cultures; Memory, Identity and Identification; Collections and New Documents and Representations.

He collaborated with the Research Centre of the Museu Picasso in the analysis of the Brigitte Baer archive.

As a researcher, he stands out for his work directing the group Archivo, Arte, Ciencia y Sociedad (Fundació Antoni Tàpies, ESAGED, Museu Picasso).

He has recently edited the book Archive for the Virreina Centre de la Imatge, together with Eric Ketelaar, Joan Marie Schwartz and K. J. Rawson.

His latest publication is Gabinete Voula Papaioannou, published by the Virreina Centre de la Imatge (Barcelona), Luis Seoane Foundation (A Coruña) and the Photographic Archives of the Benaki Museum (Athens).

He currently advises FCAYC (Leon) on the management system dedicated to the Archive-Collection; the Díaz-Caneja Foundation (Palencia) on the new arrangement of the collection in terms of archiving; and he is engaged in the study, exhibition and analysis of the documentation collection on the tattoos of the Fang people of Equatorial Guinea, preserved in the Museum of World Cultures, for the KJCC at NYU (New York).

Mela Dávila Freire (O Grove, 1970), combines research, writing, curating and translation, always in the area of art archives, artist publications, bibliographic collections and other related fields. Her fields of interest include the theoretical and practical intersections between archives and art collections, ideological biases in archival structures, and the feminist review of the gender of artist publications.

As a consultant and independent researcher, she has collaborated with the documenta archiv (Kassel, Germany), the Deutsches Historisches Museum (Berlin, Germany), the Archivo Lafuente (Santander, Spain), the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain), the Biblioteca de las Artes (Guayaquil, Ecuador), ArtsLibris (Barcelona, Spain), the Cervantes Institute, etc. and other public and private institutions and collections. Among her institutional responsibilities, at the Museu d’Art Contemporani of Barcelona she was in charge of the Publications Department and, later, she directed the Study Centre (CED). At the Museo Reina Sofia she was director of public activities.

Her most recent book, Mission and Commission: documenta and the Art Market, 1955-1968 (Barcelona: Polígrafa, 2022), explores the relationship between the first documenta and the emerging art market through the publication of multiple graphic works. Among her translations are essays such as that of Linda Nochlin, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (Barcelona: Paidós, 2022), and catalogues of exhibitions such as Nancy Holt / Inside Outside (Barcelona: MACBA, 2023, in preparation). Her next exhibition, with a selection of artist publications from Latin American women artists, will take place at the Center for Book Arts in New York in the fall of 2023.

Mela Dávila Freire holds a degree in English-German Philology (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and a degree in publishing (Pompeu Fabra University), and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Fine Arts (HFBK) Hamburg.