Carla Macchiavello is an art historian who has published on contemporary Chilean and Latin American art with an emphasis in networks of solidarity, migrant identities in video art, performance, and artistic practices aimed at social change. She is Assistant Professor in Art History at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, NY. She has curated exhibitions on recent Latin American art and is co-editor of Más allá del fin/ Beyond the End, a periodical of Ensayos, an independent, transdiciplinary, feminist research program engaging in matters related to the political ecology of Tierra del Fuego.