The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Doreen A. Ríos is a curator, researcher, and doctoral student in Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the University of California, San Diego. Ríos interrogates themes of technological expropriation, tactical media, and the sociopolitical implications of digital cultures. She is the founder of [ANTI]MATERIA, an online platform fostering global dialogue around digital and postdigital art, with a focus on amplifying Mexican and Latin American perspectives. Through [ANTI]MATERIA, she cultivates collaborations among artists, curators, and scholars, advocating for critical discourse on emerging media and materialities. Her curatorial practice spans offscreen, onscreen, and hybrid spaces, with projects including Vanishing Acts (Net.Open, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, 2025), Postboder (code)pendency (Rhizome, USA, 2025), Espacios Líquidos: Políticas de la Pantalla (Bienal Universitaria de Arte Multimedial, Ecuador, 2023), Minimal Rituals (arebyte, UK, 2023), Cuánto tiempo lleva todo esto derramándose sin desbordarse(Zona Hipermedial, Mexico, 2021), MEME, pronounced not me-me (Off Site Project, UK, 2021), and My Wall is Your Filter Bubble (Abandon Normal Devices Festival, collaboration with Matthew Plummer-Fernández, 2017). From 2019 to 2021, Ríos served as Chief Curator at Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City. Her written work on Mexican media art and media theory has been published by institutions such as The Brooklyn Rail, Luna Córnea, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Goethe Institut Mexico, MOMUS, and Terremoto, a landscape architecture and design studio in Californa. She is an active member of the International Selectors Committee for the Lumen Art Prize and the Leonardo Peer Review Panel, helping to shape the global conversation about digital art’s future. Simultaneously, Ríos conducts experimental research at Unidad de Conciencias Colectivas Terrestres, a collective she co-founded with the artist Ricardo Sierra.

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