Mariela Cantú is a researcher, audiovisual preservationist, artist and curator. She is a PhD candidate on Art History for the University of San Martín (CIAP-UNSAM CONICET), and holds a Master’s degree in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image (University of Amsterdam). She is a member of RAPA – Argentinian Network of Audiovisual Preservationists-, and the creator of Arca VIDEO, a collaborative archive of Argentinian video art. She has undergone specific training on video preservation at Associação Cultural Videobrasil (Brazil), La Camera Ottica (Italy), Media Burn Archive and Video Data Bank (USA), and Cinemateca Boliviana (Bolivia), while she has also attended the Film Preservation and Restoration School Latin America (CINAIN, Cineteca de Bologna, L’Immagine Ritrovatta and FIAF). She has been a professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad del Cine, Universidad Nacional del Arte and Universidad Nacional de La Plata, as well as in several independent institutions.