Pedro Ángeles has a Bachelor’s in History from the UNAM Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, where he is currently preparing his doctoral thesis. He has worked as an adjunct professor in the faculty’s Bachelor’s and Master’s in Art History programs. He is the author of many specialized articles on colonial Mexican art and coauthor of several publications on the same topic. From November 1986 to date, he has worked as an academic technician at the Manuel Toussaint Photographic Archive at the UNAM’s Institute of Aesthetic Research, where he is currently the coordinator.

Isabel Bordes Cabrera has served as the director of the Library Department and Documentation Center at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía since June 2019. From 2009 to 2019, she worked at the National Library of Spain (BNE), where she led the Digital Library team from 2013 on. She was in charge of the Digital Hispanic Library portal, the internal and external digitalization of the BNE’s collections and the implementation of digital preservation procedures and plans in all its digital collections. She represented the BNE in domestic and international projects and agreements on issues such as orphaned works, the assisted transcription of manuscripts, the Impact project coordinated by the National Library of the Netherlands and the European digital library Europeana. She studied veterinarian medicine as an undergraduate and has a Master’s in Library Science and Documentation from the Complutense University of Madrid. She has worked as a scientific illustrator and translator and has been codirector of an art gallery focused on photography and drawings. She has worked as a professor and a speaker in various Master’s programs, courses and professional events that have to do with the administration of digital collections, the digitalization of our documentary and bibliographic heritage and digital preservation. 

Ana Lucía Macías Chiu has worked at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education for over twenty-five years. Her work involves cultural management, libraries and the publishing industry. She is currently the national director of the university’s Cultural Heritage department, whose mission is to care for, preserve, conserve and disseminate material goods that are considered to be primary sources in documentary collections and art with a high historical, aesthetic or intellectual value. She also coordinates Passion for Reading, an institutional reading promotion program. She is the president of Asociación Mexicana de Archivos y Bibliotecas Privados, A.C., representing private archives before the National Archives Council presided over by the General Archive of the Nation. She is also a member of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Mexico Committee.

Damián Cabrera is a writer, researcher, teacher, cultural manager and curator. In 2009, he received his Bachelor’s in Letters from the Faculty of Philosophy at the National University of Este, and in 2016, he finished his Master’s in Philosophy from the Cultural Studies Postgraduate Program at the University of São Paulo’s School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EACH-USP). He works with language, literature, borders, art, politics and culture. He participated in the Espacio/Crítica seminar, one of the most active platforms for the discussion and production of criticism in the south of the continent. He is a member of the collective Ediciones de la Ura, Red Conceptualismos del Sur, the Grupo de Investigación Estudios Culturales: Identidades y Cultura Política at the EACH-USP and the Paraguay chapter of the International Association of Art Critics. He gives classes in the Bachelor’s in Cinematography at the Columbia University of Paraguay and the Bachelor’s in Visual Arts at the Advanced Institute of Art at the National University of Asunción’s Faculty of Architecture, Design and the Arts. He coordinates the Documentation and Research Department at the Centro de Artes Visuales/Museo del Barro and has curated art exhibitions in Paraguay, while his texts have been published in Brazil, Argentina, the United States, Bolivia, Ecuador and Mexico. He is the author of the novel Xiru (2012). He has served as the Activities Coordinator for the Migliorisi Foundation/Art Collections and the Cervantes Library at the Juan de Salazar Spanish Cultural Center in Asunción.