Juan Carlos Guerrero Hernández

Nationality: Colombian

Birth Date: March 23, 1973

Address: Department of Art (SUNY) / 2224 Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook, New York 11794-5400

Phones: (1)631-942-9144

E-mail: juguerr@yahoo.com / jcguerrero@ic.sunysb.edu

Web page: www.juanguerrero.co.cc

AREAS OF INTEREST AND WORK

Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Art, Art Criticism and History of Art, Continental

Philosophy, Aesthetics.

Areas of Competence: Humanities and Social Sciences.

AWARDS AND HONORS

· Thesis with honors (Tesis Meritoria). Master in Philosophy. Faculty of Human Sciences.

National University of Colombia, 2010. Title: Heidegger: Monologues of a Thought in

Transit (1927-1932).

· Grant for Research in Visual Arts 2008. Colombian National Ministry of Culture of

Colombia. Research project: Fernell Franco y Óscar Muñoz: Graphs of Collective Memory.

· Art Criticism National Prize 2007. Colombian National Ministry of Culture and Los

Andes University. Essay: Unland: The Orphan´s Tunic. Sculpture as Place of Testimony and

Trace of Memory.

· First place (among twenty three students) in the class 1995 in Electrical Engineering. Los

Andes University.

DEGREES AND STUDIES

· PhD. Studies in Art History and Criticism. SUNY at Stony Brook, 2011-2015

· Master in Philosophy. National University of Colombia, 2010

· Master in Electrical Engineering. Los Andes University (Colombia), 1997

· Electrical Engineer. Los Andes University (Colombia), 1995

· (Studies in) Philosophy. Los Andes University (Colombia), 1995-1997

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Member of Colombian Society of Philosophy (since 2010). Paper presented: “Crítica a la

Filosofía del Arte y a la Crítica Pluralista de Arthur C. Danto [Critic to Arthur Danto’s

philosophy of art and his pluralist art criticism].

RESEARCH GROUPS

· Member of GICA (Group of Investigation in Sciences of Art) at National Universit of

Colombia. Member since 2009.

· Member of the group ‘Reflection and creation in contemporay art’ at University Jorge

Tadeo Lozano. Since 2006 until 2009.

PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

LECTURES

· Seminars in the field of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art: ‘Contemporary art and

collective memory’, ‘Body, memory and technology’, ‘Rudiments for a history of

contemporary art’, ‘Four problems in contemporary art (narratives, place, representation and

technology)’, ‘Kitsch and the modern aesthetic experience’, ‘Philosophical reflections

concerning mass art’, ‘Kitsch and mass art’, ‘The Death of art and aesthetics’. Humanities

Department. Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (Bogotá, Colombia), 2004-2010

· Courses on Aesthetic Theory I and II Faculty of Humanities. Jorge Tadeo Lozano

University (Bogotá, Colombia), 2002-2010

· Seminars in the field of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology: ‘Technology,

man, and nature’, ‘Art, technology and religion in the 20th Century’. Faculty of Humanities.

Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (Bogotá, Colombia), 2002-2005.

· Seminars in the field of Cultural and Social Studies: ‘Art, technology and religion in the

20th century’, ‘Art, science and religion in classical Islam’, ‘Contemporary Islamic world’.

Humanities Department. Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (Bogotá, Colombia), 2001-2007

RESEARCH

· Independent Research. Body, Violence and Collective memory in Colombia. Two papers

published.

· Independent Research. Fernell Franco y Óscar Muñoz: Graphs of Collective Memory.

This project was partially founded by the Grant for Research in Visual Arts of the National

Ministry of Culture of Colombia. Two published papers and a book in work.

· Co-researcher in the project Contributions of Philosophy to a Critical Reflection on

Contemporary Art (parts I and II). Research group Reflection on Creation in Contemporary

Art at Faculty of Humanities, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. 2006,-2007, 2009. Five

published articles and two papers forthcoming.

· Heidegger and the Problem of the Transcendence. Thesis. Master in Philosophy. National

University of Colombia, 2006-2007. Forthcoming publication.

· Independent research. Technology and metaphysics: machine, experiment and system.

Master in Philosophy. National University, 2003-2005. A presented and published paper.

· Technology and Society in Engineering. Engineering Faculty. Los Andes University,

2002-2003. A presented paper.

· A study of the monotonic and local regressions in six-sided pixel images. Dissertation.

Magister in Electrical Engineering, Los Andes University, 1996-97

· Design and construction of a radio-telescope for detecting neutral hydrogen in the milkyway.

Dissertation. Electrical Engineering, Los Andes University, 1995

PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES IN BOOK

· “Emblemas, cuerpo y memoria colectiva [Emblems, body and collective memory].” In

Premio nacional de crítica: ensayos sobre arte contemporáneo en Colombia, quinta versión

[Art Criticism National Prize: essays on contemporary art in Colombia, fifth version], 111-

136. Bogotá: Colombian National Ministry of Culture and Los Andes University, 2010

(ISSN2145-5910).

· “Pensar la interculturalidad: crisis y confesión [Thinking interculturality: crisis and

confession].” In Estética: Miradas Contemporáneas 3 [Aesthetics: contemporary gazes 3],

edited by Carlos Sanabria, 49-74. Bogotá: Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, 2010 (ISBN

978-958-725-031-2).

· “Una aproximación a lo público del arte público [An approach to what public means in

the expression ‘public art’].” In Estética: Miradas Contemporáneas 3 [Aesthetics:

contemporary gazes 3], edited by Carlos Sanabria, 13-47. Bogotá: Universidad Jorge Tadeo

Lozano (ISBN 978-958-725-031-2).

· “El museo como lugar de presentación de la historia: donación, apropiación y testimonio

[The museum as place of presentation of history: Donation, appropriation and testimony].” In

Estética, fenomenología y hermenéutica. Memorias del primer congreso de la Sociedad

Colombiana de Filosofía [Aesthetics, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics. Memories of the

First Congress of the Colombian Society of Philosophy], edited by Juan Botero, 147-161.

Bogota: Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, 2008 (ISBN 978-958-9029-97-8)

· “Unland: The Orphan's Tunic. La escultura como lugar del testimonio y trazo de la

memoria [Sculpture as place of the testimony and trace of Memory].” In Premio nacional de

crítica: ensayos sobre arte contemporáneo en Colombia, tercera versión [National award of

art criticism: Essays on contemporary art in Colombia, third version], 11-37. Bogota:

National Ministry of Culture and Los Andes University (ISBN 978-958-695-294-1).

· “Sobre el encuentro de arte y técnica: Génesis de Eduardo Kac [On art and technology

encounter: Eduardo Kac’s Genesis].” In Estética: miradas contemporáneas 2. Teoría,

práctica, sociedad [Aesthetics: Contemporary Gazes 2. Theory, Praxis, and Society]. Edited

by Alberto Vargas, 117-136. Bogotá: Jorge Tadeo Lozano University Press, 2007 (ISBN 978-

958-9029-94-7).

· “Lo Público y el Arte Público. Arte público en Colombia [Public and public art. Public

Art in Colombia].” In Premio nacional de crítica: ensayos sobre arte contemporáneo en

Colombia, segunda versión [Art criticism national award: essays on contemporary art in

Colombia, second version], 35-56. Bogota: National Ministry of Culture and Los Andes

University,2006 (ISBN 958-695-224-X).

ARTICLES IN INDEXED JOURNALS

· Cuerpos en dolor (I) imágenes emblemáticas del régimen ético de la violencia [Bodies in

Pain (I): emblematic images of an ethical regime of violence]. In Revista de Estudios

Sociales 35 (2010): 123-137 (ISSN: 0123-885X).

· Caricatura y performance en diálogos interculturales [Caricature and performance in

intercultural dialogues]. In Revista de Estudios Sociales 30 (2008): 46-57(ISSN: 0123-885X).

· Al-àrabia, la lengua árabe [al-àrabia, the arab language]. In Grafía 4 (2006): 129-141

(ISSN 1692-6250).

TRANSLATIONS

· Emad, Parvis. “La Pregunta por la Técnica y La Voluntad de Poder [The Question for

Technology and The Will to Power]”. In Estética: miradas contemporáneas [Aesthetics:

Contemporary Gazes], edited by Carlos Sanabria, 103-120. Bogotá: Universidad de Bogotá

Jorge Tadeo Lozano Press. Originally published in Walter Biemel and v. Hermann, Kunst und

Technik, Gedächtnisschrift zum 100. Gebusrtag von Martin Heidegger. (Frankfurt am Main:

Klostermann Verlag, 1989).

CONGRESSES

SPEAKER

· “Cuerpo masacrados y emblemas de la violencia [Slaughtered bodies and emblems of

violence]” Third Congress of Colombian Society of Philosophy, University of Valle, Cali,

October 2010.

· “Cuerpo mutilados: imágenes emblemáticas de un régimen ético de la violencia

[Mutilated bodies: emblematic images of an ethical regime of violence].” Second chair

Franco Colombian of high studies, Nacional University, October 2010.

· “Pensando el cuerpo y la Memoria Colectiva desde la obras de Fernell Franco y Óscar

Muñoz [Thinking of body and collective memory in Franco’s and Muñoz’s artworks].”

Second chair Franco Colombian of high studies, Nacional University, October 2010.

· “Cuerpo y Memoria Colectiva: una reflexión filosófica con la obra fotográfica de Fernell

Franco [Body and collective memory: a philosophical reflection on Fernell Franco's

photographic artwork].” Second Congress of Colombian Society of Philosophy, University of

Cartagena, September 22-26, 2008.

· "Performance y Confesión: claves para pensar el Pluralismo y el sujeto intercultural en el

arte contemporáneo" (Performance and confession: keys to think pluralism and intercultural

subject in contemporary art). Third Iberian American Congress of Philosophy, University of

Antioquia. Medellin, 2008.

· "Pensar la Crisis: Confesión e interculturalidad" (Thinking Crisis: confession and

interculturality). XII International Congress of Latin American Philosophy, Santo Tomás

University, Bogotá, June- July 2007.

· “El Museo como lugar de presentación de la Historia: Donación, apropiación y

testimonio" [Museum as place of history's presentation: donation, appropriation and

testimony].” First National Congress of Colombian Society of Philosophy. Jorge Tadeo

Lozano University, Abril 19-22 2006.

· “Arte y Memoria: el arte en Latinoamérica y su aporte a la construcción de una cultura

más incluyente y democrática" (Art and memory: art in Latin America y it's contribution to

construction of a more including and democratic culture].” XI International Congress of

Latin American Philosophy, Santo Tomás University, Bogotá, July 2005.

· Jiménez, Javier, Guerrero, Juan and García, Antonio, Tecnología y Sociedad: el salón de

clase como lugar de construcción de la sociedad [technology and society: the classroom as a

place of construction of society] XXIII Nacional meeting of Engineering Faculties,

Cartagena, September 2003

CONFERENCES

SPEAKER

· Contemporary links between art, science, and technology (six conferences). Chapter of

Art, UNIANDINOS (Alumni’s Association of Los Andes University). August 2009

· Museum as place of history. Humanities Faculty, Jorge Tadeo Lozano Univertity. October

2006

· Art and Technology: the case of Genesis by Eduardo Kac. Humanities Faculty. Jorge

Tadeo Lozano University. April 2004

· Thinking Virtual Education in Colombia: problems de Open and at Distance High

Education 1983-2003. Engineering Faculty, Los Andes University. October 2003

· Art and Nature: Art thinks biotechnology. Biology Department. Sciences Faculty. Los

Andes University. May 2003

· Arte and Technology: body, life and nature. Engineering Faculty. Los Andes University.

March 2003

· Philosophy of Technique and Technology. Engineering Faculty. Los Andes University.

August 2002

THESIS DIRECTION

· Ayala David, Escobar Juliana y Gutiérrez, Camilo. Thesis: IDCT: Laboratory of spatial

practices, Communication, Media and Direct Action. Art Department at Universidad Jorge

Tadeo Lozano, 2009. Grade: 5.0 / 5.0 (excellent)

· Murillo, Andrés. Thesis: Love, an aesthetic politics. Art Department at Universidad Jorge

Tadeo Lozano, 2009. Grade: 4.9 / 5.0.

LANGUAGES

· Spanish: native speaker

· English: TOEFL (102/120, 250/300), CAE (C), CFC (B), IELTS (7.5 / 9.0).

· German: reading level. Grundstufe, Goethe Institute.

· Portuguese and French: reading level.