Julio César Gonzales Oviedo, Ph.D.

Julio César Gonzales Oviedo is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the project “Connected Teams: Practicing Transcultural Art Histories under the Conditions of Ecological Crises and Digital Transformations: India, Latin America, and Europe” at the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). His research interests revolve around visual culture, memory, territory, social movements, political ecology, and collaborative artistic practices, with a particular focus on audiovisual archives, preservation, and collective memory processes. His practice moves between research, audiovisual creation, and collaborative cultural work. He is part of the audiovisual research and creation collective MAIZAL; audiovisual producer at La Brigada Nómade; member of the editorial committee of the independent magazine La Otra Cosecha; and collaborator of the intercultural creation laboratory Chawpi and the performing arts collective YAMA (Ecuador). He has participated in film preservation projects related to the works of Santiago Álvarez (Cuba), María Barea (Perú), Christine Rosenthal and Kurt Rosenthal (Germany), Bertha Saldaña, Federico García and Pilar Roca (Perú), and the Centro de Teleducación de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (CETUC). He is currently working on the preservation of the Kusi Films archive of filmmaker Marianne Eyde (Perú–Norway). He holds a PhD in Rural Development from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Xochimilco (México), an MA in Film and Audiovisual Archiving from the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (Basque Country), an MA in Visual Anthropology and Anthropological Documentary from FLACSO (Ecuador), an MA in Communication with a specialization in Visualities and Diversities from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Ecuador), and a BA in Social Communication from the Universidad de Lima (Perú).