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MAURICIO V. DELFIN PACHECO

EDUCATION

2013- McGill University — Montreal, Canada PhD Communication Studies (ABD) Thesis: “A government of culture: politics and technologies of cultural governance in the neoliberal Republic of Peru”

2010-2012 New York University — New York, USA M.A. Media, Culture and Communication Thesis: “The Apparatuses of Culture: Cultural information Systems, technologies of government and the political economy of culture in Latin America” * Distinguished Thesis Award

2005-2010 Pontifical Catholic University of Peru – Lima, Peru M.A. Anthropology (pending dissertation) Thesis: “Agency, social space and cultural systems in the new Northern-Lima”.

1997-2001 McGill University — Montreal, Canada B.A. Joint Honors in Anthropology and International Development Studies Thesis: “Taming Chimaera: Demystifying the youth violence phenomenon in Lima, Peru”.

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS (SELECTION)

Forthcoming

March 2019 8th World Summit on Arts and Culture — Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Panelist: “Cultural Citizenship: the governance of culture” Invited by the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) and the National Department for Culture and Arts of Malaysia (JKKN).

Past

Dec. 2018 Create|2030 — UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France Panelist: “Civil Society: An Actor of Change in the Governance of Culture” High-Level talk in the framework of thee 12th session of the Intergovernmental Committee of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Invited by UNESCO.

Nov. 2018 La Ciudad Imaginada, Encuentro — Valladolid, Spain Workshop: “Critical vectors and new horizons to enable cultural citizenship through the participation of people and their communities”. Invited by the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) and the Laboratorio de las Arts de Valladolid (LAVA).

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May 2018 1st Americas Cultural Summit— Ottawa, Canada Presentation: “How to enable Cultural Citizenship” as part of a Round Table on Cultural Citizenship. Invited by the Canada Council of the Arts and the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA).

March 2017 Latin American Student Association (LASA) Congress — Lima, Peru Paper: “The Indian and the Database: Power and Politics in the construction of the Database of Indigenous Peoples in Peru” as part of LASA Section Presentation: “Digital Peru: Dialogues of Knowledge”

July 2016 1st National Summit of Cultural Management — Sto. Domingo, Dominican Republic Lecture: “Open Government and cultural policies: How do we update the operating system of cultural democracy?”. Invited by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID).

May 2015 3rd International Open Government Data Conference — Ottawa, Canada Open Data Research Symposium Paper: “The limits of a good practice: On the need for an intercultural critique of open data and its social construction in the global south”

April 2015 XIII Assoc. of Latin American Students (ALAS) Annual Conf. — NY, USA Paper: “Opening the government of culture in Latin America: Preliminary lessons from local and networked experiences in cultural policy contestation” Teachers College, Columbia University

Sept. 2014 8th Intl. Conference on Cultural Policy Research — Hildesheim, Germany Paper: “Towards an open government of culture: Emerging practices and struggles in the politics of cultural policymaking in Latin America”

July 2014 23rd World Congress of Political Science — Montreal, Canada Paper: “Probability and Possibility in Cultural Policies: Informational Regimes and the New Social Movements of Culture in Latin America” Panel: “Cultural Policies in Latin America: Trends and Challenges in a Time of Crisis”

April 2014 6th Intl. Conf. on Tech., Knowledge and Society (HASTAC) — Lima, Peru Cultural Information Systems, technologies of government and the political economy of culture in Latin America

Feb. 2014 Neil Postman Graduate Conference (NYU) — New York, USA “The Conceit of open and opening (government) data: Lessons from an emerging model of techno-democracy”

Dec. 2013 Conference: “The Apparatuses of Culture” — Cultural Center of Spain. Lima, Peru.

Nov. 2013 Open Government Partnership Annual Summit 2013 — London, UK Paper: “Transparency, Participation and Collaboration in the Arts and Cultural Sectors of Latin America”. With Rene Antezana and Cláudia Schulz

Feb. 2013 The 2013 Neil Postman Graduate Conference (NYU) — New York, USA Paper: “We should be software: Recoding cultural action through networked formations and open technologies in Latin America”.

Jan. 2013 Conference: “Living, free, open and networked: New inputs for cultural policies in 21st century Peru” — Qorikancha Auditorium, Cusco, Peru

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Nov. 2012 VIII Euro-American Campus for Cultural Cooperation – Cuenca, Ecuador Workshop: “Information, networked technologies and new citizenships: What does digital culture imply for knowledge management and the construction of contemporary cultural policies?

Oct. 2012 GHRI Teasdale-Corti Program Symposium — Ottawa, Canada Global Social Justice and the Social Determinants of Health Paper: “Media, information and the promise of new technologies in Knowledge Transfer (KT) practices: Knowledge transfer as political reconfiguration”

Aug. 2012 Second National Summit of Culture — Lima, Peru Papers: “The Apparatuses of Culture: Cultural information Systems, technologies of government and the political economy of culture in Latin America” and “The Open Government of Culture”

July 2012 Encuentro Cultura de Red — Brasilia, Brazil Presentation: “RIO Project: Networks, Information and Organization of the Cultural Sector in Latin America”

March 2012 Best Practices in Cultural Management – Managua, Nicaragua Presentation: “Cultural Information Systems from the perspective of citizenship”

Nov. 2011 Cultural Trends Conference – London, United Kingdom In Search of Cultural Policy Paper: “The Promise of Cultural Networks: Towards a research framework for the study of region-specific cultural network ecosystems”

Nov. 2011 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting – Montreal, Canada Tidemarks and Legacies Poster presentation: “Cultural Data: Contested Object and Space/Site for Policy Design and Civic Engagement”

Oct. 2011 Trauma and Global Health Program Annual Conference – Montreal, Canada Presentation: “Media, information and the promise of new technologies in Knowledge Transfer (KT) practices”

Oct. 2011 5th Word Summit on Arts and Culture – Melbourne, Australia Creative Intersections Open Session: “Art, technology and culture: the policy/political link”

April 2011 Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry – Montreal, Canada Cultures of the Internet: Identity, Community and Mental Health Paper: “Todos somos dateros (We are all data-providers): Internet-based participatory strategies to strengthen citizenship, promote health and quality of life in Peru”

March 2011 World Bank Transport Forum – Washington DC, USA Presentation: “Todos somos dateros (We are all data providers): A crowdsourcing platform and strategy”

Dec. 2010 VII Euro-American Campus for Cultural Cooperation – Canary Islands, Spain Workshop: “Cultural networks and technologies for cultural managers”

Oct. 2010 Conference “Creating a Future for Art and Culture in Latin America” – S. J, Costa Rica Presentation: “Cultural networks in Latin America”

Oct. 2009 Second Ibero-American Conference on Culture – Sao Paulo, Brazil Roundtable: Good practices in cultural development Presentation: “Culturaperu.org: A project for civic engagement in cultural policy”

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Sep. 2009 4th World Summit on Arts and Culture – Johannesburg, South Africa Panel: North-South relations in Cultural Cooperation and Exchange Presentation: “Culturaperu.org: A project for civic engagement in the South”

June 2009 Festival Elektra – Montreal, Canada International Marketplace for Digital Arts Presentation: “The International Festival of Video/Arte/Electrónica in Peru (1996- 2006): A decentralized experience for media art promotion in Peru”

March 2009 VI Euro-American Campus for Cultural Cooperation - Buenos Aires, Argentina Presentation: “Culturaperu.org: ICTs for development & cultural management”

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)

Delfin, M. (2016). En la salita del SIN: sobre los Vladivideos y el atestiguamiento como capacidad cultural en el Perú post-Alberto Fujimori. Retrieved from http://mauriciodelfin.pe/2016/en-la- salita-del-sin/

Casemajor, N., Couture, S., Delfin, M., Goerzen, M., and Delfanti, A. (2015) Non-participation in digital media: Toward a framework of mediated political action. Media, Culture & Society. Vol 37, Issue 6, pp. 850 – 866. DOI: 10.1177/0163443715584098

Delfin, M. (2013). Los Aparatos de la Cultura: Sistemas de información cultural, tecnologías de gobierno y la economía política de la cultura en América Latina. Bi-lingual publication of Master’s Thesis. Retrieved from http://mauriciodelfin.pe/aparatos-de-la-cultura/

Delfin, M. (2013). A modo de introducción: Acerca de las nuevas territorialidades. Eje Central: Seis dimensiones del trabajo colaborativo internacional para el desarrollo cultural. Barcelona: Transit Projectes.

Delfin, M. (2012). The promise of cultural networks in Latin America: towards a research framework for the study of region-specific cultural network ecosystems. Cultural Trends, Vol 21, Issue 3. DOI: 10.1080/09548963.2012.698556

Delfin, M. (2011). Matar [la idea actual de] la Red. Eje Centr4l: Emprendeduría Sostenible para el Desarrollo Cultural. Barcelona: Transit Projectes.

Delfin. M. (2009). Culturaperu.org: A platform for citizen participation in culture, in Co-laborar: Experiences of collaboration and work. Lima: Tanq.

Delfin, M. & Zegarra. M. (2009). Electronic Art in Peru: The Discovery of an Invisible Territory in the Country of the Incas. Third Text, 23(3), 293-301. DOI:10.1080/09528820902954929

Delfin, M., Robillard, C. & Pedersen, D. (2008). Strengthening Collective Memories and Resilience in The Peruvian Andes. Global Indigenous Health Research Symposium Report. Victoria: Centre for Aboriginal Health Research, University of Victoria.

Delfin, M. and Norget K. (2000). Socio-Economic study of Coffee-growers in San Lorenzo Texmelucan, Oaxaca. Montréal: Groupe de recherche sur l'Amérique Latine, Université de Montréal.

AWARDS (SELECTION)

2018-2019 The Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy Fellowship For Doctoral Research, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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2015-2016 OAS Open Government Fellowship in the Americas Organization of American States (OAS)

2014-2017 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Social Science and Research Council (SSHRC), Montreal, Canada

2012 Distinguished Thesis Award Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University.

2007 4th Summer Inst. for New Researchers on Global Health Fellowship - Kerala, India. Organized by the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (CCGHR) and the Center for Developing Studies (CDS). Theme: Knowledge Transfer (KT).

2000 International Fellowship Award by the Douglas Hospital Research Center and McGill University to conduct field studies in mental health and human development in urban poor communities in Lima, Peru.

1999 Scarlet Key Award for Outstanding Leadership Award for outstanding leadership capacities within and outside McGill University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (SELECTION)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2018- Part-Time Professor Course: Art and Technology University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC)

2013 Professor Workshop: Social Networks for Scholars Media@McGill, McGill University

2009 Adjunct Professor Course: “New technologies and cultural management” as part of a seminar on cultural policies and local development designed by Tándem Sociology Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP)

Adjunct Professor Seminars: (1) Cultural Management and Social Development and (2) Technologies for Cultural Management. Diploma on Cultural Management, Museum of Art of Lima (MALI)

2006 Adjunct Professor Course: “Cultural Policies: A vision from contemporary anthropology” Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University

APPLIED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2010-2015 Research and Development Strategist, Co-Director La Factura Social Enterprise focusing on technologies for civic participation

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2009-2012 Associate Researcher Trauma and Global Health (TGH) Program McGill University & Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH). Area of research: Information and Communication Technologies for civic engagement in violence reduction; Assisted design of Metropolitan Observatory of Violence in Lima

2009 Associate Researcher Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) and Municipality of Miraflores Project: “Study on youth programs, use of public space and potential strategic alliances in the district of Miraflores, Lima”. Produced online map of local programs and institutions that work with youth; Assessed potential alliances between municipality and local agents.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

2013-2015 Communication Consultant/Coordinator Project: “Datea.pe” – Version 2.0 for collective mapping tool and technological design of collaborative monitoring tool. Funded by the Civic Innovation Fund 2013, promoted the Avina Americas Foundation. http://datea.pe

2013 Consultant/Coordinator Project: “Alerta Ambiental” - Technological design and deployment of environmental alert system for the Madre de Dios region of Peru. Funded by the Peruvian Society of Environmental Rights (SPDA). http://alertaambiental.pe

2012 Consultant/Coordinator Pilot Project: “Save the Huacas: New technologies for the protection and preservation of the archaeological heritage of Comas” Project received an award by the Cultural Center of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) http://salvemoslashuacas.pe/

2010-2012 Research and Design Consultant Project: “Todos Somos Dateros” (We are all Data Providers/Access) Sponsored by the Division of Transport of the World Bank Crowdsourcing project that promotes civic engagement. Phases included mapping the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Lima, eliminating barriers to the mobility of people with disabilities and improving cycle lanes in the city. http://.datea.pe/

2009 Founder, Lead specialist in new technologies Tándem: Gestión Cultural para el Desarrollo - Tandem: Cultural Management for Development Consulting group on themes related to cultural policies, cultural management for social development and creative industries http://tandem.pe/

2007 Consultant Save the Children - Sweden Project: “Public Internet Cabins (Cabinas) and security of children and adolescents in Metropolitan Lima”.

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ADVOCACY AND POLICY EXPERIENCE

2017- Technical Secretary Peruvian Alliance of Cultural Organizations (APOC) Network of cultural organizations advancing a national civic agenda for cultural policies http://apoc.pe/

2017 General Editor Project: Agenda for Shared Advocacy (AIC) 12-chapter document that synthetizes civic proposals for the transformation of cultural policies, with input from 77 cultural organizations in 15 regions of Peru. http://apoc.pe/aic/

2016-2017 Director Project: “Decentralized Program of Pre/Encuentros” - Civic engagement process involving 77 organizations in 15 regions of Peru to propose changes to local and national cultural policies http://encuentrocultura.pe/5/pre-encuentros/

2015- Director Asociación Civil Solar Non-profit organization that promotes open government practices in the cultural sector of Peru http://solar.pe

Co-Coordinator Juntxs — Regional Cultural Network Articulation Project, sponsored by the Hivos Foundation. Member of the General Coordination Committee and the Information and Communications Working Group.

2012 Director and Producer First Seminar “City and Technologies: New Media for the Development of the city and the wellbeing of its inhabitants” (CYT1) Sponsored by the Cultural Center of Spain in Lima and AECID

Coordinator Más Cultura (More Culture) initiative: Towards an Open Government of Culture in Peru. Civic initiative and network for the promotion of transparency and public accountability on cultural programs and policies at the local level. http://mascultura.pe

Co-Coordinator Validation Meeting for Project RIO — Managua, Nicaragua (18 international guests) Sponsored by the Hivos Foundation http://proyectorio.org (March 7-10)

2011-2014 Founder, Director Encuentro Nacional de Cultura (ENC), National Summit of Culture National Forum for debate and dialogue on cultural management and cultural policies for development in Peru. The event gathers more than 500 cultural managers every year, and has taken place in Lima, Cusco and Iquitos. http://encuentrocultura.pe/

2011-2012 Working Group Coordinator RIO Project – Networks, Interactions and Organization of the Cultural Sector in Latin America – With support from the Hivos Foundation http://proyectorio.org/blog/ (January-December 2011)

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2009 - 2017 Director Culturaperu.org - Cultural Information System Organization that promotes civic engagement in cultural policies using new technologies http://culturaperu.org

2008 Coordinator, Visual and Plastic Arts Steering Committee Project “Peru: Culture and Development” - National Institute of Culture-AECID Nation-wide consultative process for the strengthening of cultural policies

ARTS MANAGEMENT AND CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

2011 Curator #Multitudes: Redes, tecnología y cultura - #Multitudes: Networks, technology and culture - Presented at the Gallery of the Cultural Center of Spain in Lima. Arts exhibition that proposes a critique of the Internet as cultural space as seen from the South; Includes Internet-based works and projects by 14 Peruvian artists and designers (August 6 - September 29). http://multitudes.pe

2009 Coordinator and Curator PLASMA 2: Second Peruvian Symposium on Art and New Media (25-28 November). Sponsored by the Telefónica Foundation Center

2008 General Director PLASMA: First Peruvian Symposium on Art and New Media (3-5 September) Sponsored by the Telefónica Foundation Center & the Spanish Cultural Center

2004-2010 General Director International Festival of Video/Arte/Electrónica (8 – 11th edition) Multi-venue international event consisting of exhibitions, concerts, conferences and artistic performances in the cities of Arequipa, Cusco, Lima, Puerto Maldonado and Trujillo

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

2012 Editor Information Futures Initiative, New York University Library In charge of web and graphic design, content management and social media

Editorial Assistant E-misférica online, bi-annual, trilingual peer-reviewed journal Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University

2003-2006 Editor, General Producer Distancia Crítica: Aportes hacia una nueva conciencia social (Vol. 1-5) - Critical Distance: Towards a New Social Conscience Tri-monthly magazine of critical thought; 12,000 issues distributed for free in more than 12 cities in the country http://realidadvisual.org/publicaciones/dc/

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VIDEO AND MEDIA ART PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE

2009 Director and Editor Zona Cruda (30 min. /Color, Spanish with English subtitles) Documentary about indigenous communities in the Pastaza River (Amazon) affected by environmental contamination Produced by MECAA project, Canada http://vimeo.com/6812936

Artist and Producer VIVO 0.1b (June 2009) Interactive video installation, presented at the 5th Artware Biennial in Lima

2008 Artist and Producer VIVO, interactive installation ICPNA Gallery in Miraflores, Lima (July-August) http://vimeo.com/1968198

2005 Director and Producer Noqanchis (Todos nosotros) – All of us (35 min./Color, Quechua with English/Spanish subtitles) Documentary about political violence and its effect on the collective mental health of Andean communities in the highlands of Ayacucho, Peru. Produced by the Douglas Hospital Research Center (Montreal, Canada) http://vimeo.com/5185200

2004 Director of Production and Photography Le Paradis Terrestre (El Paraíso en la Tierra) - Paradise on Earth Video-Installation by Santiago Zegarra and Norbert Godon presented simultaneously in Puerto Maldonado, Lima and Lyon (France); Homage to the Brazil-nut famers from the National reserve of Tambopata

Director, Producer Viaje Hacia la Noche: Celebración de César Moro - Voyage Towards the Night: A celebration of César Moro (35 min./Color, Spanish/French). Documentary about the Peruvian surrealist poet César Moro produced in Lima, Mexico and France http://vimeo.com/5033507

2002 Writer, Producer and Director 2/2/2 (15 min./Color, English) Experimental video produced in New York during protests, against the World Economic Forum (WEF 2002)

2001-2010 Director (Co-founder) Realidad Visual Non-profit organization dedicated to artistic promotion and cultural development http://realidadvisual.org

2001 Writer, Producer and Director LOCO: A documentary on mental illness in Lima, Peru (35 min./Color) Produced by the Douglas Hospital Research Center (Montreal, Canada) and Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia UPCD Tier 2 Linkage Project — Mental Health and Human Development http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/psychiatry/mhhd/

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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Cultural Policy Designers Network, Associated Member, 2018 La Factura, founder and member, 2010-2015 Tándem: Gestión Cultural para el Desarrollo, founder and member, 2009-2014 American Anthropological Association, member, 2011-2012 Festival International de Video/Arte/Electrónica, director and curator, 2003-2010 Realidad Visual, Founder, member and director 2001-2010

LANGUAGES AND ABILITIES

Spanish, native speaker. English, fluent speaker. Advanced knowledge of web design and systems management; word processing, interactive presentations, graphic design, video production and editing.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT http://mauriciodelfin.pe

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