José-Carlos Mariátegui is a writer and curator whose specialities are culture, art and technology. He studied Biology and has a degree in Applied Mathematics from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Lima). He has an MSc and a PhD in Innovation and Information Systems, both from the London School of Economics. Founder of Alta Tecnología Andina – ATA, dedicated to art, science and technology projects in Latin America. A member of the editorial board of the Leonardo Series, a series of books about art, science and technology published by the MIT Press (USA); of the AI & Society Advisory Board (UK); and the board of directors of the Lima Art Museum, he is also a Fellow of the UK’s Royal Society of Arts. He has co-edited, with Max Hernández and Jorge Villacorta, El mañana fue hoy. 21 años de videocreación y arte electrónico en el Perú (2018) and Del cero al infinito: escritos de arte y lucha, a compilation of Rasheed Araeen texts (2019). He has published in magazines and journals such as Third Text, The Information Society, Telos and Leonardo and has curated art and technology exhibitions and projects for over two decades. His latest exhibition, Broken Symmetries/Cuántica (co-curated with Monica Bello), explores the results of the interaction between artists and CERN scientists and has gone on show in Liverpool, Barcelona, Brussels, Taichung and Tallinn. He is co-editing a selection of studies on Cybernetics in Latin America for AI & Society and is part of the consultancy team advising the National Exhibition Competition for the Peruvian Independence Bicentenary. His projects have been reviewed in the Financial Times, New Scientist and The New York Times.