Heidi J. Figueroa Sarriera
http://home.coqui.net/hfiguero
is a social psychologist and Full Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, RÃo Piedras Campus. Her research interested is focused on social and cultural representations of high tech design and subjectivity constructions. She is co-assistant editor of the book edited by Chris Hables Gray (1995) The Cyborg Handbook, NY-London: Routledge; she also co-edited (1994) Más allá de la bella (in)diferencia: revisión postfeminista y otras escrituras posibles, San Juan, PR, Publicaciones Puertorriqueñas. Dr. Figueroa-Sarriera has published articles and chapters about cyberpsychology, technoculture and gender construction in local as well as in international journals and books. She is the editor of the online journal TeknoKultura (http://teknokultura.rrp.upr.edu/) and coordinates the teaching and research project CMCEP (Computer Mediated Communicación in Psychology, http://www.rrp.upr.edu/cmcep/). She is member of the editorial board of some academic and professional journals: International Journal of Critical Psychology, published by Lawrence & Wishart, Humanidades, published by Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (UTP), Colombia (http://utp.edu.co/~chumanas/) and Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular (http://www.iml.annenberg.edu/vectors/public/index.html) published by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California (USC).
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Curator:
Marianne RamÃrez-Aponte
has a B.A. (1994) in Art, History and Fine Art at the University of Puerto Rico, RÃo Piedras Campus. The thesis project is titled “History of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico (1984-1990)â€. In 2004 Marian RamÃrez completed a M.A. in Puerto Rican and Caribbean Studies in 2004; the thesis’s title is “The Graphic Art Work of Rafael Rivera Rosa. Social Message and Modern Aesthetic Elementsâ€. From 1995 to present she has been Director of the Exhibitions and Education Department, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR. In 2001 she was co-founder and member of Puerto Rico’s Museum Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico and professor at the Communications Departament, University of Sacred Heart, P.R. In 2002 she was guest professor at Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico. Marianne RamÃrez-Aponte has been engaged in several special projects:
2000 to present Production Manager and Artists’ Biographies Author of art book titled Conversando con nuestros artistas (Vol. II), Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Expected publicaction date: Winter 2004
2003 Curator of the exhibition The Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico. Part I: Liberty and Risk, Part II: Paper without Frontiers, San Juan, PR
Production Manager, Editor and Co-Author of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico collections’catalogue, San Juan, PR. Published: Fall 2003
2001 Guest Curator, group exhibition Transferencias, GalerÃa RaÃces, San Juan, PRContributor for the Cuarto del Quenepón magazine (http://www.cuarto.quenepon.org/), San Juan, PR
1998-99 Production Manager and Artists’Biographies Author of art book titled Conversando con nuestros artistas (Vol. I), Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Published: 1999
1996 -2004 Author and Main Researcher (for art sections) and Production Assistant for interactive publication (Cd-Rom format) titled Contemporary Art from Puerto Rico 1940-1999, produced by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Published: Spring 2004
Heidi J. Figueroa and Marianne RamÃrez-Aponte curate for
featuring these artists