Gabriel Mário Velez is a Colombian visual and interdisciplinary artist, professor, and researcher. He has been the Dean of the Antioquia University School of Arts in Colombia since 2017. He was a postdoc at the National University of Córdoba (Argentina, 2011), and holds a doctorate and Master of Fine Arts degree from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain, 2004) and a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from the University of Antioquia (Medellín/ Colombia, 1993). He has worked extensively as a lecturer and speaker. In 2012, he was elected by the Ministry of National Education as an advisor. His writing has been published in various books and magazines, including the book Photography as a Magical Device and the multimedia publication “The Minimal Stories of the Anonymous Passer-By”. Since 1991, he has worked extensively as an artist in collective and individual exhibitions, collaborative projects, and projects with social impact.
While at OpenDocLab, Gabriel is working on Transeuntis Mundi, a project that proposes to capture the sound and visual memory of people, cultures and cities to tell the story of the millennial passersby that have been crossing the world.