Renato González Mello has a Bachelor’s in History and a Doctorate in Art History from the UNAM’s Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (FFyL). Since 1992, he has been a researcher at the University’s Institute of Aesthetic Research (IIE), with lines of research that address modern Mexican painting, the study of violent images and systematic heritage cataloging. He has also published work on twentieth century political iconography, the relationship between architecture and education and the material analysis of the arts.

He has directed two research groups: one on political iconography and another on art and education, as well as an internal group at the IIE to analyze David Alfaro Siqueiros’s Birth of Fascism. He is also a member of the National Laboratory of Sciences for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage.

Since 1991, he has been a professor at the UNAM’s FFyL and he has been a guest lecturer at the Veracruzan University, the National Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, the Iberoamerican University, El Colegio de México and Columbia University. Between 2008 and 2010, he was coordinator of the IIE’s art history postgraduate program and served as the institute’s director from 2010 to 2018. He has received the Edward Laroque Tinker and Salvador Novo history scholarships and has been a member of the Academy of the Arts since 2014.

His most important publications include La máquina de pintar: Rivera, Orozco y la invención de un lenguaje (2008) and collaborative projects such as José Clemente Orozco in the United States (with Diane Miliotes, 2002), Encauzar la mirada: arquitectura, pedagogía e imágenes en México, 1920-1950 (with Deborah Dorotinsky, 2010), Vanguardia en México, 1915-1940 (with Anthony Michael Stanton, 2013) and Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950 (with Matthew Affron, Mark A. Castro and Dafne Cruz Porchini, 2016).

Irene Soria Guzmán is an academic, hackfeminist and free culture and free software activist. She also serves as an advisor to the Federal Telecommunications Institute and is a member of the Creative Commons Executive Committee and represents Creative Commons Mexico. She is the author and editor of the book Ética hacker, seguridad y vigilancia, as well as many academic and divulgation articles on digital culture. Her work has appeared in domestic and international media such as Red Edusat and the German television channel Deutsche Welle. 

She has participated in over two hundred conferences, panels, talks and workshops in Mexico and across Europe and the Americas. Her lines of research address issues such as critical technology, the relationship between technology and women, hacker culture, digital media and culture, free software, hackfeminism and the use of permissive licenses for the creation and distribution of knowledge online.

Lourdes Padilla is a feminist with a varied, interdisciplinary background: she has a Bachelor’s in Law, a Master’s in Human Rights Education and is a specialist in intellectual property and art history. Her work experience is in many different fields, from intellectual property management for academic publications and art books to popular education and education for peace, community interventions and public policy, working both with civil society organizations and social collectives as well as with the government. She currently works with the publications department at the UNAM’s Institute for Aesthetic Research.

Silvia Salgado Ruelas has a Bachelor’s in Pedagogy and a Master’s in Visual Arts from the UNAM and a Doctorate in Art History from the University of Seville. Since 1982, she has worked at the UNAM’s Institute for Bibliographic Research (IIB). She is a researcher at the Archives and Manuscripts department of the Rare Book Room at the National Library of Mexico (BNM) and is in charge of the collective project Ars Bibliographica, based at the IIB. Her lines of research include codicology, retrospective bibliography and libraries with antique texts. She has published books, chapters, articles and websites on manuscripts, bibliographies and libraries. She is currently the coordinator of the BNM and is participating in the project to reform Mexico’s legal deposit requirements.

In 2003, she became a professor at the UNAM’s College of Library Science, where she has given the classes “History of Libraries and the Book” and “Selected Issues in Library Science IV: Codicology.” She has also taught the certifications “The Antique Book” and “Bridges Between History and Literature” and has directed Bachelor’s and postgraduate theses in library science, history, art history and preservation

Alberto Castro is a full-time professor at the College of Library Science at the UNAM’s Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (FFyL), working in the field of information technologies. He is also the Innovation and Digital Strategy Coordinator at the National Library and Newspaper Archive of Mexico and the UNAM’s Institute of Bibliographic Research. He studied systems engineering at the Technological Institute of San Luis Potosí and has a Master’s in Library Science from the FFyL. From 1992 to 2001, he was the director of the computing department at the UNAM’s University Library Science Research Center, and from 2003 to 2008, he was designated the technical secretary of the digital library at the university’s General Library Department. Between 2011 and 2013, he was also a commissioner in the FFyL’s Postgraduate Studies Division.

On the professional level, he has received project grants from the Support Program for Educational Innovation and Improvement Projects, the Support Program for Technological Research and Innovation Projects and the National Science and Technology Council. He has directed dissertations at the College of Library Science and has served as an advisor on a variety of interinstitutional technology projects. He is also on the university’s Institutional Repository Technical Committee, Digital Preservation Committee and University Outreach and Transference Committee. He has given lectures and courses in different academic fora across Mexico and around the world and has many publications on information and communications technologies.

Brenda Cabral Vargas has a Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctorate in Library Science and Information Studies from the UNAM. Her lines of research include digital spaces and resources and distance learning. She has reviewed more than one hundred graduation projects, including dissertations, theses and academic reports and has served on professional exams at the UNAM’s College of Library Science and Archivology and the National School of Library Science and Archivonomics (ENBA). 

She has over fifty publications, including articles in academic journals and popular magazines, conference publications, didactic guides, reviews and books. She has given courses and talks at the UNAM’s Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (FFyL), the ENBA and many other Mexican universities, both public and private, since 1992. She has also given talks and participated in conferences at institutions such as the National Transparency, Information Access and Personal Data Protection Institute, the UNAM’s Library and Information Sciences Institute and the National Polytechnic Institute, primarily addressing issues related to information technologies for archives and libraries.

Her administrative roles have included being coordinator of the FFyL’s Center for Student Programs between 2009 and 2011 and of the UNAM’s Postgraduate Program in Library and Information Sciences. She is currently the coordinator of the College of Library Science and Archivology at the FFyL and the president of the Asociación Mexicana de Bibliotecarios, A.C.

Norma Aída Manzanera Silva studied Political Science and Public Administration at the UNAM’s Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, has a Master’s in Library Science from El Colegio de México and took the Introduction to Museum Studies course at Harvard. She has served as the subdirector of the library at the Panamerican University and director of the library at Mexico’s National Museum of Art. She has led MiCISAN, the institutional repository of the UNAM’s Research Center on North America, a successful project that was financed by the National Science and Technology Council, indexed by the world’s most robust aggregators.

As a professor, she has given classes at the Faculty of Engineering and the Master’s in Library Science and Information Studies. She has given talks at many national and international fora and encounters and has provided prologues and conducted editorial review processes for books, articles and academic events related to issues involving repositories, open access, institutional memory, governmental information and digital humanities.

Rubén Sáenz González has a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from the UNAM’s Faculty of Sciences. His professional career at the university began in 2006 as Director of Software Development at the Biology Institute’s Biodiversity Computation Unit. In 2013, he served as the Director of Technological Development for the University Digital Collections Department, where he designed and implemented its data center. He also led the development of the Aurora platform, which provides the basis for the UNAM’s University Collections Open Data Portal. He is currently the coordinator of the University Repositories System, where he supervises the operation and growth of the UNAM’s institutional repository and supports the implementation of the repositories of the university’s departments and dependencies.

Ana Yuri Ramírez Molina has a Master’s in Software Engineering and is studying for her Doctorate in Information Studies, specializing in digital preservation. The 2020 winner of the UNAM’s Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award, she has broad experience in the administration, management and development of software in the documentary and library science fields. She is currently the director of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Department at the National Library of Mexico and is a founding member of the institution’s Digital Preservation Group, as well as serving as the group’s technological coordinator.

Ricardo Alvarado Tapia has a Bachelor’s in Graphic Design from the UNAM’s National School of Plastic Arts, with a specialty and Master’s in Design from the Metropolitan Autonomous University. He is an academic specialized in the photography and digitalization of artworks and heritage documents at the Photographic Archive of the UNAM’s Institute of Aesthetic Research, where he manages the Vicente Cortés Sotelo Photographic Trust. Also at this same institute, he has coordinated the Digitalization of Heritage Documents and Hypermedia Laboratory seminars, collaborated on several research projects, particularly “Pre-Hispanic Mural Painting in Mexico,” and directed the project “Stabilization, Digitalization and Documentation in the Vicente Cortés Sotelo Panoramic Photography Collection,” whose website came in second place in the Public Engagement category in the 2016 Digital Humanities Awards.