UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program (DANM) welcomes

Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet
Arte Nuevo InteractivA: An Independent curatorial project in MERIDA_MX
Thursday, October 30 (1:30pm-3:00pm)
Porter D-245, Porter College UCSC
Santa Cruz, California

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Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet is the executive curator of Arte Nuevo InteractivA, a leading biennale in Latin America. Employing Internet technologies through the process of selecting themes, artists, projects, artworks and curators, Art Nuevo InteractivA interconnects these elements in a fluid variable geometry that articulates the dynamics of economic production of art in Latin America, the discursive formation of artistic practices, the constant erasure of these artists in the official canon of art history and the difficulties of curatorial practices outside the museum and government institutions. The grammar evolving as result of the curatorial process has its own discursive flow. The end results of the biennale, the conferences and the lab are the transformations of the initial intentions. As in a work of art, the moment when the physical interaction takes place denotes new positions even among the artists, curators, scholars and critics involved in the project. The curatorial process of the biennale is closer to a Latin America neo conceptualism that can be observed in the work of the Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles who, incorporating dollars bills and bottles of Coca-Cola with inscriptions to recycle the signifiers in order to establish new conceptual grammars, enunciates the historical and economic positionalities of our creative practices.

The biennale was born as a consequence of the invisibility of many artists in the big biennials of electronic art, to the marginalization experienced by new media artists with limited access to technology and to the need for creating a critical space for the new generation of artists who are constantly excluded from museums, galleries and festivals only because they do not live in the “metropolis” or because their limited access to technology forces them to produce “rudimentary” or “low tek” artworks.

Arte Nuevo InteractivA, through its curatorial approach, offers a deep inquiry into the social uses, effects and consequences of new communication technologies, the examination of new art, new media art and critical writings in Latin [Luso] America, the Caribbean and other regions of the world to create a cross cultural dialogue and a knowledge production/audience interaction highlighting the issues, ideas and struggles faced by artists and audiences in many areas of the world in the consequential global/colonial information age.

Arte Nuevo InteractivA
http://www.cartodigital.org/interactiva

"Border Crossings" with Ferrera-Balanquet
Curated and led by DANM instructor, Christina McPhee
https://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2005-April/author.html

About Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet
Interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator and Fulbright scholar, Ferrera-Balanquet has exhibited extensively throughout the glob, including the US, Canada, Latin America, Spain and Australia. His writings have appeared extensively in print and electronically. In addition to a Fulbright Fellowship, Ferrera-Balanquet has been awarded grants from FOECAY, US/Mexico Cultural Fund, The Australian Network of Art and Technology, the National Endowment for the Arts and The Lyn Blumenthal Video Foundation. He currently holds the Multimedia professorship at the Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatan (ESAY), Merida, Mexico.

For more information: http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/events.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Parking
Enter the Main Entrance to the campus and proceed directly to the parking kiosk on the right. Purchase an "A lot" parking permit. Then drive to the West Entrance to the campus. Follow Heller Drive until you reach Porter College on your left and park there. Walk into the main entrance of Porter College and at the end of the administration building on your left walk straight ahead, up a flight of stairs and proceed to Room D-245.

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