David Maulén de los Reyes teaches history of technology at the Metropolitan Technological University (UTEM) and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI), Chile. He has written about the relationships between art, science and technology in Chile and Latin America within the processes of social change, developing a specific methodology of the sociology of symbolic production for the retrospective study of project disciplines such as design, architecture, urban planning and engineering. Curatorial projects include: the third biennial of the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA), ‘The Situation of Chilean Contemporary Art’; the project for the new Gabriela Mistral cultural centre; visualization of information ‘Genealogical Trajectories of Buildings for the 3rd United Nations Confer- ence on Trade and Development UNCTAD III’; and regional curator for the project ‘Everyone is a Bauhaus: Past and future of a concept’, at ZKM, Karlsruhe. He has contributed to the platform ‘Is Modernity Our Antiquity?’ at Documenta 12 in Kassel. He was co-editor of the special issue on cybernetics in Latin America of the AI & Society journal, research that he continues to develop.

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