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Grace Quintanilla currently directs the Centro de Cultura Digital of the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes de MéxicoShe completed postgraduate studies in Television and Electronic Art at the University of Dundee in Scotland Her artistic work has been shown in new media festivals in Europe, the Americas and Asia In 2002 she was awarded a new media fellowship by the Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundations; in 1997 she won the first national prize for Cultural Television awarded by Canal 22 and the Red Nacional de Radiodifusoras y Televisoras Culturales She was a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte of the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Fonca) for two programmesHer work as a curator includes ¡Juega!, a show featuring the work of women video artists, commissioned by the Museo de Mujeres Artistas Mexicanas (MUMA), and Familiar / Memorable on emerging artists in the electronic arts, commissioned by the Laboratorio Arte AlamedaShe served as artistic director at the Festival de Artes Electrónicas y Video Transitiomx_02: Fronteras Nómadas She was a member of the Consejo de Artes y Letras of the Fonca from 2004 to 2006 and honorary member of the Consejo de Evaluación y Planeación of the Festival Transitio from 2008 to 2010, and has been a member of the Consejo Consultivo of MUMA since 2008