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<nettime-ann> [list] September on -empyre-: Sites in Translation |
Please join us at <http://www.subtle.net/empyre> as we explore "Sites in Translation" with artists Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, Mariam Ghani, Lana Lin, H. Lan =20 Thao Lam, and Angel Nevarez In 2004, five artists and collaborative groups were commissioned to make web-based projects for the latest edition of inSite, the binational exhibition of site-specific work staged every few years along the San Diego/Tijuana border. Having opened the final week of August 2005, =20 inSite's first venture online raises a number of interesting questions for discussion. "Tijuana Calling" is online now at: <http://www.insite05.org/auxillary/tjcalling2.htm> The artists ask: "Is the net a vast =91no-man=92s-land,=92 a = border-free =20 zone contiguous to every place but specific to none? Or does the net =20 re-enact the politics of physical geography, with its own border =20 policies and politics of exclusion, recognition and reciprocity? Is =20 it possible for new media artists to activate the net for the staging =20= of projects responsible and responsive to communities that fall =20 between legitimized power sectors, and if so how? "We would like to examine the role of the artist as translator, =20 mediating between points of origin and reception. We propose several =20 approaches toward understanding translation: physical place as re-=20 articulated in virtual space; linguistic translation proper; cross-=20 cultural production; and on-line transmission." Please welcome Ricardo, Mariam, Lana, Lan Thao, and Angel. ------------------------------------------------>Ricardo Miranda =20 Zuniga grew up between Nicaragua, and San Francisco. A bicultural upbringing tied to a multidisciplinary education has led =20 to work that attempts to cultivate interaction with the viewer and =20 may include performance, sculpture, video and audio, the Internet or =20 a combination of all. The principle behind the work is communication =20 as a creative process. <http://www.ambriente.com/> ---------------------------------------------->Mariam Ghani is a =20 Brooklyn-based artist whose work in video, installation, new media, =20 text and public dialogue performance investigates how history is =20 constructed and reconstructed as narrative in the present. Her work =20 has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 1999, and she =20= has been making web-based projects since 2003. <http://www.kabul-=20 reconstructions.net/mariam> ----------------------------------------------->Lana Lin is a New =20 York-based media artist whose practice interprets cultural histories and the processes of identification. Her work has =20 been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American =20= Art, New York, China Taipei Film Archive, Taiwan, and the Festival de Femmes, Creteil, France. ------------------------------------------------->H. Lan Thao Lam is =20 a bilingual artist/writer who has lived in Vietnam, Malaysia, Canada and the US. Lam's work probes the inter-=20 relationships between place and history, architecture and philosophy. =20= Lam is the recipient of the Canadian Council for the Arts Media =20 Grant, H.L. Rous Sculpture Award, and James Robertson Environmental =20 Design Award. ------------------------------------------------>Angel Nevarez was =20 born in Mexico City, 1970, and raised in the United States. Nevarez =20 studied biology at the University of California, San Diego and in =20 2001-2002 was a studio fellow of the Whitney Museum Independent Study =20= Program. He is co-founder of the artist collaborative =20 neuroTransmitter, whose work fuses transmission and conceptual art. =20 <http://www.neurotransmitter.fm/> Subscribe at <http://www.subtle.net/empyre> -cm <http://christinamcphee.net> _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann