Armando Silva

Armando Silva

Colombia

D. in Philosophy and Literature from the University of California. His thesis, co-directed by Jacque Derrida Family Photo Album, the image of ourselves, wins as the best foreigner (California, 1997). Post-doctorate in Critical Theory. Doctoral studies in Aesthetics and Semiotics in Italy (Sapienza di Roma) and France (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris), in Semiotics and Psychoanalysis. Visiting professor at universities such as California University in the USA and Cambridge University in the UK. Author of more than 30 books including Imaginarios urbanos with ten editions and translations into several languages and Graffiti una ciudad imaginada, which opens the field of graffiti to a theory of writing the forbidden. He was a student of Umberto Eco, Christian Metz and the Lacanian school. Throughout his career he has received distinctions from institutions such as UNESCO, FLACSO, Documenta 11 in Germany, Venice Biennial, São Paulo Biennial, Tapies Foundation. The Vienna Biennial (2022) is inspired by his theory of imaginaries and recognizes him as the creator of the concept. He directs the worldwide project "Imagined Cities" and is Professor and Researcher Emeritus at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.