Federico Pérez Villoro is an artist and researcher living and working between New York and Mexico City. Through texts, performances, and digital artifacts, Federico explores the operational depth of images and the ways in which state, corporate and institutional authority is exercised through computational technologies. His work has been exhibited internationally and published by The Serving Library, Printed Matter, C Magazine, diSONARE, Gato Negro Ediciones, and the Walker Art Center’s The Gradient. Federico has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and California College of the Arts and lectured at schools such as ETH Zurich, Rutgers University, CalArts, The New School, UNAM, and Hongik University. In addition, Federico has advanced a number of experimental educational initiatives. He recently founded Materia Abierta, a summer school on theory, art, and technology in Mexico City. Previously, Federico developed Second Thoughts, a series of lectures, workshops, and discussions on contemporary design at Fundación Alumnos and Museo Tamayo. Alongside Roxana Fabius, he is the co-founder of (human) learning, an itinerant study group that has been hosted in spaces such as P! in New York City, Art Center/South Florida in Miami, Florida, and ZONAMACO in Mexico City. In 2013, he received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.