Adolfo Vera Peñaloza. He is a Doctor of Philosophy from the Université de Paris VIII Vincennes Saint Denis. Adjunct Professor of the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Valparaíso. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Konstanz, Germany, and Tours, France. He was in charge of the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Art and New Media (2014-2016), and was Director of the Master of Philosophy at the University of Valparaíso (2015-2016). He is a member of the faculty of the Master in Philosophy and the Doctorate in interdisciplinary studies on thought, culture and society at the University of Valparaíso. His privileged research topics are: relations between art and political violence, cinema and philosophy, aesthetics of contemporary art. In addition to having published several articles on his research topics in magazines with a reading committee and mainstream, he has edited and co-edited, among others, the Proceedings of the Film and Philosophy Colloquiums (2013, 2014, 2015), the books The forms of the past: memory and destruction (2015) and Bifurcations of the sensible: cinema, art and new media (2018), the monographic issue Esthétiques latino-américaines (Revue Appareil, 2015). He is the author of the books: Between desire and matter: visual work by Claudio Bertoni (Altazor, Viña del Mar, 2007) and Art and disappearance (Editorial UV, Valparaíso, 2017).