The exhibition Paper Traces: Latin American Prints and Drawings from the Collection at SDMA opens at the San Diego Museum of Art.
I was part of the UCSD VisArts Research Group who assisted Roberto Tejada in curating the exhibition.
A recognition goes to my fellow researchers: Katherine Becvar, Fabian Cereijido, Moriah Evans,Nicole Holland, William Huber, Bill Kelley, Jr., Rebecca J. Kinney, Carlos Martell, Annie Mendoza, Patricia Montoya, Irene Robles-Huerta, and Yagna Yass. A special thanks to Monica Jovanovich and Jillian Mollenhauer for their special curatorial assistance this summer, making the final exhibition possible.
http://www.sdmart.org/exhibition-paper-traces.html
Paper Traces: Latin American Prints and Drawings from the Collection at SDMA
September 23-December 31, 2006
A new exhibition curated by the UCSD VisArts Research Group reveals the depth and breadth of the Museum's Latin American collection. With approximately 60 prints and drawings of varying media and sizes—nearly all on view for the first time—Paper Traces boasts examples by major artists from all over Latin America, including José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Roberto Matta, José Luis Cuevas, and Antonio M. Frasconi. It also highlights SDMA's new acquisitions, such as Hugo Crosthwaite's Bartolomé and Leonora Carrington's High Priestess.
The prints, drawings, posters, and portfolios displayed range widely over time and place and include art from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Peru, and Venezuela. They present subject matter common to everyday life in Latin America—national identity, labor, ethnicity, social class, and family—and explore the role of traditional media in depicting these themes.
Friday, September 22, 2006
Thursday, September 07, 2006
My project Diary of a Star is currently part of an online exhibition focused on Blogs, organized by no-org.net:
http://www.no-org.net/blogs/
Blog, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog one of the most spread forms of expression on the web -varying from personal diaries to community weblogs, professional knowledge exchange resources, political campaigns and more. In their different manifestations, blogs (moblogs, videoblogs, photoblogs, etc.), became a phenomenon influencing in many cases upon social and cultural areas: journalism, politics, alternative knowledge sources, literature, art, etc.
The *blogs?* project takes blog as art and as a stage for net artworks investigating the language, the aesthetics, the impacts and the practices of blogs, blogging and the blogoesphere.
Blog? presents works utilizing the blog platform for creation of artwork. Works that break the conventional purpose of the platform, conveying a message or delivering data, by emphasizing poetical and aesthetic manifestations of blog, and by exposing capabilities of the blog as a platform for creating art. Blog-specific works.
http://www.no-org.net/blogs/
Blog, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog one of the most spread forms of expression on the web -varying from personal diaries to community weblogs, professional knowledge exchange resources, political campaigns and more. In their different manifestations, blogs (moblogs, videoblogs, photoblogs, etc.), became a phenomenon influencing in many cases upon social and cultural areas: journalism, politics, alternative knowledge sources, literature, art, etc.
The *blogs?* project takes blog as art and as a stage for net artworks investigating the language, the aesthetics, the impacts and the practices of blogs, blogging and the blogoesphere.
Blog? presents works utilizing the blog platform for creation of artwork. Works that break the conventional purpose of the platform, conveying a message or delivering data, by emphasizing poetical and aesthetic manifestations of blog, and by exposing capabilities of the blog as a platform for creating art. Blog-specific works.
Friday, September 01, 2006
I'm back in Los Angeles and San Diego, and just received a link to my radio interview in Conexion Social, which took place in Santiago de Chile.
The interview was in Spanish:
http://www.conexionsocial.cl/node/33
El arte nos ayuda a familiarizarnos y a captar algo de nuestra nueva era digital. Necesitamos apropiarnos de lo digital, de lo cientifico y tecnologico en nuestra cultura. (Herve Fisher, filosofo y artista)
Eduardo Navas, historiador, escritor y net artist salvadoreno especializado en nuevos medios, converso con Conexion Social sobre las nuevas relaciones entre arte y nuevas tecnologias, especialmente a traves de la plataforma que ofrece la web, donde la comunidad cobra especial importancia en la valoracion de la propuesta de una obra artística, y tambien a la hora de crear algo. Bienvenidos a la cultura del remix, a los espacios donde crear algo nuevo, se menzcla con el copiar, cortar, pegar y poner a disposicion de otros en la red. Una apuesta que concibe al trabajo artístico como un regalo libre de ser compartido y apreciado por tod@s.
The interview was in Spanish:
http://www.conexionsocial.cl/node/33
El arte nos ayuda a familiarizarnos y a captar algo de nuestra nueva era digital. Necesitamos apropiarnos de lo digital, de lo cientifico y tecnologico en nuestra cultura. (Herve Fisher, filosofo y artista)
Eduardo Navas, historiador, escritor y net artist salvadoreno especializado en nuevos medios, converso con Conexion Social sobre las nuevas relaciones entre arte y nuevas tecnologias, especialmente a traves de la plataforma que ofrece la web, donde la comunidad cobra especial importancia en la valoracion de la propuesta de una obra artística, y tambien a la hora de crear algo. Bienvenidos a la cultura del remix, a los espacios donde crear algo nuevo, se menzcla con el copiar, cortar, pegar y poner a disposicion de otros en la red. Una apuesta que concibe al trabajo artístico como un regalo libre de ser compartido y apreciado por tod@s.