Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet Born in Havana, Cuba in 1958. MFA, Multimedia and Video Art Department, University of Iowa, 1992. He has exhibited his work at major galleries, art centers and museum around the world, including the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; Fundacion de Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay; 33ro Festival Internacional Cervantino, Leon, Mexico; Exit Art Gallery, New York City; MAAP Festival, "Alchemy Projects," Australia; The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Caroline; Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago; Brisbane Powerhouse, Australia; Video IN, Vancouver B.C., Canada; LACE, Los Angeles, California; Voices Series, Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Museo de Arte Actual, Bogota, Colombia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Centro de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona, Spain among others. Ferrera-Balanquet has curated major media arts exhibits in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Cuba and Mexico, among them Arte Nuevo InteractivA since 2001, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, Huellas de un Corazon Sangrante en Tropicana, MIX-Brazil, for the Museum of Sound and Image, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Nomadas: Plural Identities in Traveling Territories, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Videos That Unmask, Test and Invade the Colonial System, Program I, Video In, Vancouver B.C., Canada and the New Latin American Cinema in Iowa II, an international film festival and conference for The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. His writings have appeared in Vídeo en Latinoamerica. Una visión crítica, Editorial Brumaria, Madrid; Tierra Adentro, México DF; Forum Idea, 9na Bienal de La Habana 2006; La Hija Natural de J.T.G., Montevideo, Uruguay; Public No. 31, Toronto, Canada; Circus Reader, Melbourne, Australia; Felix: A Journal of Media Arts and Communication, New York; the Mexican literary magazine Navegaciones Zur, the electronic publications Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness y Net Art Review; Artpapers, Atlanta. In addition to a Fulbright Fellowship, Ferrera-Balanquet has been awarded grants from City of Merida´s Cultural Office, US/Mexico Cultural Fund, FOECAY, Moon Radio Webtv Commission, The Australian Network of Art and Technology, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), The Lyn Blumenthal Video Foundation, and the Noetic Science Institute/Fetzer Institute. His writings have appeared in the Australian based The Media Circus Reader, Artpapers, Radical Teacher, Cinematograph, Felix, the Mexican literary magazines Navegaciones Zur El Juglar, the Miami based Perra! La Revista and the British/German art magazine Guest. He currently holds the Multimedia professorship at the Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatan (ESAY), Merida, Mexico.