The Misiones National University Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC UNaM) project, launched by a group of artists and faculty members from Misiones, grew out of the need for a space that took into account the specific politics of circulation, production and consumer society related to contemporary art. It was first submitted to the authorities of this house of advanced studies in 1998, and was officially inaugurated on June 21st, 2002. It was meant to have a profile of its own in the cultural life of Misiones and of the region through concrete activity programs in a critical, open space that would allow for a social approach to points of view that relate to current visual arts in its diverse manifestations.
This museum introduces itself as a space of high rotation that goes, for the most part, for temporary and itinerant exhibitions. It aspires to become a center of permanent aesthetic experimentation, rather than a traditional museum conceived as a deposit for a collection or a specific patrimony or tresorium of cultural goods. It comes close to the concept of Kunsthalle, while keeping its museum character as an institution with clear and rigorous political and disciplinarian and educational ends geared towards the public.

According to what is written above, and always taking into account the situation of Misiones in the national and regional context, her special condition as a province bordering other countries, its multicultural and immigratory composition, the Unam Museum of Contemporary Art has set for itself the following basic objectives:
a. To make sure the general public has access to contemporary aesthetic manifestations, thereby promoting active participation in current cultural expressions.
b. To become the adequate environment in which artists may produce and communicate their work
c. To promote debates and discussions of ideas around the problems of art today, with emphasis in current visual arts and in the visual arts of the recent past.
d. To develop a critical profile as an institution and with respect to current art, providing evidence of the new tendencies by means of exhibitions and publications.
e. To become an educational tool able to attract the community and students in general to local, Argentine and international works of art, and in this manner widen their vision of the world and of current societies.

Misiones National University Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC UNaM). Annexed to the Faculty of Humanities, Ground Floor, on San Lorenzo 2551 St., Posadas, Misiones, Argentina.

Project: Translations

Development of an exhibition that takes up the concept of intersemiotic translation – or creative translation- as worked in the 1980s by Noigandres, the Brazilian concrete poetry group, asking visual artists from Misiones, Buenos Aires and Asunción to submit projects that entail a transcodification of work formulated in other semiotic systems–poetry, music, etc., as well as other visual art works, thus emphasizing the interdisciplinary and multimedia character of current art.

Francisco Ali-Brouchoud. Visual artist, writer and art critic. Was born in Posadas in 1964.
He studied Literature in Misiones National University. He studied musical semiology with Jorge Sad and electro acoustic media composition with Antonio Moliterni in Buenos Aires. He lives and works in Misiones.
He has shown his visual work: objects, installations, sound installations and photography, in solo and collective exhibitions in Buenos Aires, and in the provinces of Misiones, Chaco and Corrientes in Argentina.
Between 1998 and 2001 he was awarded two grants by the Antorchas Foundation to participate in the Production and Work Analysis Meetings for Plastic Artists of the Argentine North East. He coordinated the 2000 – 2001 meeting.
As a writer, he published La circunfeérica, a novel. (Editorial Universitaria de Misiones, 1993).
As an art critic he edited SED, the El Territorio (Posadas) cultural supplement between 1999 and 2001. He collaborates with the Página/12 (Buenos Aires) visual arts section. He has written texts for the solo and collective exhibitions of Sergio Bazán, Ignacio de Lucca, y Andrés Bancalari, published by the Borges Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires, and for the Constantini Prize 1999 and 2000 held at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires.
He is currently the curator of the Unam Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as one of the co-founders of this project.