Quesnel-Alvarez, Jacinto

Jacinto Quesnel is the National Director of the Bachelor s in Digital Arts (LAD) at Tecnológico de Monterrey and a co-architect of the Master s in Digital Arts and New Media (MAM-L). A PhD candidate in Arts and Design (UNAM), he is an artist, curator, and cultural manager with extensive experience at Mexico s Center for Digital Culture (CCD), where he founded the Games Lab and later served as an external curator, and is also co-founder of DEVHR (International Game Forum). His practice weaves creation, technology, and pedagogy: a driver of the video game industry in the Global South, game designer, cultural organizer and game jam convener, as well as a developer of XR/AR labs and participatory experiences. In academia, he advances teaching and practice-based research, and has led projects with museums, festivals, and studios in Mexico and abroad. His approach art + technology + play flattens hierarchies between the local and the global, the popular and the scholarly; it expands the categories of art and activates meaning and community through experimentation, collaboration, and impact metrics.