María A. Matienzo

M.A. Matienzo is an archivist, information scientist, and digital strategist and currently serves as the Head of Application Development Services for the University of California, Berkeley Library. María has worked in a variety of roles, specializing in born-digital materials, technical architecture, and metadata management, at institutions including Stanford University Libraries, the Digital Public Library of America, Yale University Library, The New York Public Library, and the American Institute of Physics. María received a MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information and a BA in Philosophy from the College of Wooster, and was the 2012 recipient of the Mark A. Greene Emerging Leader Award from the Society of American Archivists.

María Dolores A. Matienzo (b. 1979, US) a composer, intermedia artist, poet, and archivist living on unceded Coast Salish lands in so-called Seattle, Washington. Her works explore ritual, sensory experience, immaterial labor, and memory and memorialization. She has written and performed experimental music for over 20 years, and publishes her work on her imprint, Imprecision Art. Her work has also been published by Travesties?!, Fantômes, Sawyer Spaces, and American Tapes.

I can be reached at maria@matienzo.org, as well as on Instagram, GitHub, and Mastodon.

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