Sebastián Vidal holds a Degree in Art History from the University of Chile and Professor of Visual Arts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica. He works at the Palacio de La Moneda Cultural Center, more specifically at the Documentation Center of the Arts, which acts as a national archive in this area. "I have been working in public institutions for three years, and I also teach at three universities: at the Universidad Central, at Arcis University and now I'm going to start teaching at Diego Portales University," says Sebastián. He is a researcher of the contemporary art archive. His job is precisely to investigate, cadastrar and select the objects that compose the file. It is bibliographic and audiovisual material. You should look for the texts that correspond to the collections, get the material with artists and institutions, and build networks. "It has been a very complex work, which also involves tracking, digitizing material, populating databases ... It is an unpublished work in reality, because it is the first archive of contemporary art in Chile," he confesses. Research and teaching Working with three other people, the catalog already has approximately eight thousand titles. "And all this is going to decant in October at an exhibition at the La Moneda Cultural Center, which will be part of the Triennial of Art in Santiago. It is a great exhibition of archives, where we are going to show part of this work," he says. Sebastian. He is finishing the Master in Art, with a mention in Theory and History, of the University of Chile. "The research work here has also facilitated access to a lot of information, a lot of data. So I want to stop in this job as a public official, as an office, and decant information, I need to process a lot of hard data," says this student. "In addition, my concerns go through university teaching. It was also an option to postulate the doctorate as a professional projection," he says. "A good time for a change of this kind" For now, he is waiting for the courses to prepare the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and the Graduate Record Examinatios (GRE), which requires the Equality Opportunities. "For the time being, I'm preparing myself in a self-taught way, but with enough progress too," says Sebastián. "He was quite grateful to know that he was staying in. He had been quite convinced about what he had done, one never really knows, but he had confidence in what he had done, he had done well, and it was a good postulation, I think. time to do it in my life, I was turning thirty and it was a good time to make a change of this type, "he says. He studied Middle School in San Marcos de Macul School, "taking advantage of the fact that my father was a teacher of the school, there was the benefit of being able to study in a good environment. And it has been good to continue that and to advance a little more, to exceed what your dad taught you.I had a lot of encouragement since I was a kid, but my dad is an art teacher and he is an artist, I was more on the humanities side , more on reflection, more theoretical, "he says. "A very good generation" From the University of Chile, he says that he received "a quite complete formation in many aspects, very important at a vital level, for everything that includes the formation of a professional. He graduated in 2003 and says that many of his colleagues have been able to improve abroad. "For example, one friend of mine is with Fulbright, another is in London, another is in Buenos Aires ... It was a very good generation," he concludes.