Backslash Scholar 2025
Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano is an art historian and musician researching the interaction between art, science, and technology. His current research explores the concept of invention and how it can be used to frame and understand contemporary artistic practices that engage with technoscience within collaborative frameworks. He holds a master's degree in Art History from City College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and an Erasmus Mundus degree in Media Arts Cultures, a joint master's degree program coordinated by Donau Universität Krems, Austria. He has worked at institutions devoted to art and research in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), the Archive of Digital Art (ADA) in Austria, and the Asia Art Archive (AAA) in Hong Kong. His scholarly publications have appeared in journals such as Leonardo and Performance Research. As a curator, Rodrigo has organized various projects and exhibitions, including SxAffold: An Encounter for Scientists x Artists (Fred Hutch, Seattle, 2025), Guadalupe Maravilla: Armonía de la Esfera (Johnson Museum, Cornell University, 2024), Maro Pebo: The Death of a Naturalist (The Rest, Ithaca, NY, 2023), and I'm Always Here (Osage, Hong Kong, 2021).
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Selected publications:
- Guzman-Serrano, Rodrigo. “STS and Curating: Boundary Objects and Sociotechnical Imaginaries as Guiding Concepts in Art Exhibitions.” In What Curators Know: Art and Science in the Museum, ed. Hannah Star Rogers. London: Bloomsbury, 2026.
- Guzman-Serrano, Rodrigo. “In the Shadow of the Natural Image: On Pliny, Photography, and Microbes.” In Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder, eds. Verity Platt & Andrew C. Weislogel, 97-107. Ithaca, N.Y.: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2024.
- Guzman-Serrano, Rodrigo and Mariana Perez Bobadilla. “Biocultural Transformations: Fermentation as Artistic Medium.” In Leonardo 55, no. 6 (2022).
- Guzman-Serrano, Rodrigo and Mariana Perez Bobadilla. “Microorganisms on Stage: Winogradsky columns as performative displays in art and science.” In Performance Research 25, no. 3 (2020).
