Miguel Rojas-Sotelo
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Miguel Rojas-Sotelo is a film and art curator and critic, and also a filmmaker and media activist. He worked as director of Visual Arts for the Colombian Ministry of Culture between 1995 and 2001 introducing a series of changes to the cultural system in play at the time; focusing in developing participatory policy-making, research, and circulation of cultural production. As curator he has organized and curated several exhibitions of contemporary art in his country and Latin America, as well as conveyed panels and international symposia on cultural studies and contemporary art. He is author of several articles on the issues of contemporary visual circuits, culture and power, Latin American audio-visual production, cultural policy and subjectivity, and the art of the Global South. Currently he is part of the advisory committee for Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and Director of the North Carolina Latin American Film and Media Festival. Miguel Rojas-Sotelo has a PhD. in Contemporary Art and Cultural Theory, with PhD. certificates in Latin American and Cultural Studies from University of Pittsburgh, and currently is associated at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Center for Global Studies at Duke University. Currently, he is finalizing a book on the cultural and critical history of the Havana Biennale (1984-2009) and a collection of essays on art and politics in Colombia.
