Itala Schmelz

Mexico

(Mexico, 1968) She is a curator. She graduated in philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of UNAM. She is the author of Codigofagia. Cine mexicano y ciencia ficción (2022) and creator of El futuro más acá. Primer festival de cine mexicano de ciencia ficción (2003-2007), a film series that toured the world produced by the UNAM film library. As curator of the Mexican Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), she presented Cordiox, a sound piece by Ariel Guzik. In her career as a cultural manager, she has directed the Siqueiros Public Art Hall (2001-2007), the Carrillo Gil Art Museum (2007-2011) and Centro de la imagen (2013-2018). She is currently a CONACYT scholarship holder for a PhD in Philosophy at UNAM and a teacher at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving ENPEG La Esmeralda.

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