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𰆗𰄲𰅴𰆔𰅔𰅘𰅐𰅧𰆐𰁉𰀲 𰄡𰁗𰀹𰂔𰀀 𰆆𰈖𰅕𰁇
2026
In 2026, Error 415 Unsupported Media Type supports San Diego-based curator and researcher Doreen Ríos, founder and director of the [ANTI]MATERIA platform.
The 2026 Unsupported Media Type grant was awarded to California and Mexico-based curator and independent researcher Doreen Ríos, who has been documenting and shaping the contemporary media art scene with her platform [ANTI]MATERIA since 2015, through which she publishes online exhibitions, essays and research, as well as a weekly column focussing on current projects, mainly from Mexico and Latin America.
Her work focuses on technological counterproduction, tactical media, and new materialities. Ríos is the founder of [ANTI]MATERIA, an online platform dedicated to the study and exhibition of art produced through digital media.
From 2019 to 2021, she served as Chief Curator at the Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City. Recent curatorial projects include Vanishing Acts at the Taipei Fine Art Museum (2025-2026) and Postborder (code)pendency at Rhizome (2025). Her critical writing has been featured in publications such as Media Arts 21, Luna Córnea, and the Brooklyn Rail. She is the author of Medios inestables. De objetos técnicos y arte (2025).
Currently a PhD candidate in Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the University of California, San Diego, she is also a member of the Leonardo Peer Review Panel as well as the International Selectors Committee for the Lumen Art Prize.
Links:
https://doreenrios.net/
https://anti-materia.org/