dr^k magazine
Started: 2011
Status: Finished (2015)
Main Language: Spanish
Summary:
dr^k magazine was a digital publication focused on contemporary art and culture, co-founded by Alonso Cedillo and Karla Hernández García.
Initiated as an independent platform during their time at La Esmeralda & Universidad Iberoamericana. The project emerged from the need to create a space for documentation, dialogue, and dissemination beyond institutional structures.
Following Hernández García’s departure in 2012, the magazine continued under Cedillo’s direction, with Laos Salazar and Daniela Gil joining as editors.
Between 2012 and 2015, dr^k magazine developed an extensive audiovisual archive, publishing over one hundred video interviews with artists working across diverse media and disciplines. These conversations were complemented by theoretical texts, exhibition reviews, and the presentation of works by artists of the same generation.
At a time when digital publishing in Spanish-language contemporary art was still largely text-based, dr^k magazine operated as an early hybrid platform, integrating video, audio, writing, metaverses, and online distribution into a single editorial structure.
Rather than functioning solely as a publication, it became a site of proximity: a space where emerging practices were recorded in real time, often before entering formal circuits of recognition.
From 2013 to 2015, the magazine was edited independently by Cedillo, consolidating its voice while expanding its archive.