New Media Festival 2006

September 2, 2006 to September 23, 2006

New Media, Video, Digital Photography and Performance Festival

ABOUT THE SHOW

The exhibition features a current production in New Media, Video, Digital Photography and Performance from emerging and mid-career artists of different origins (Japan, India, Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Uruguay)  based in Latin America and the United States. On Digital Photography Carl Pascuzzi, Douglas Voisin, Chemi Rosado, Rodolfo Graziano, Rochi LLaneza, Lee Dahlberg, Lili(ana), Nitin Vadukul,  Otilio Moralejo propose subtle axes marked by cultural politics: the body and its crisis, war and its fragmented reality, community as a critical social compound. Their photographs full of acute overtones of sub-textual powers are set as deconstructed and critical signs of our current world. On New Media Richard Garet, Andy Graydon, Chika Iijima, Shimpei Takeda and Adam Kendall adopt a ‘telemetric’ approach in digital-based technology developing hyper visual geometrical shapes and unexpected aural effects in delirious combinations of sequential time-based series. On Contemporary VideoAriadna Capasso, Tim Folland, Guerra de la Paz, Ferran Martin, Peter Eudenbach, Benito Laren, Javier Lara, Nitin Vadukul, Richard Garet , Federico Ovalles Jr., Saskia Jorda, Silvia Rivas and Carlos Trilnik, embark in a series of non-discursive videos in which imagery procreates hyperbolic patterns questioning critical social issues with metaphors and metonymic iconography.

Intersection, 2006,  Odalys Valdivieso’s special project aims to subvert time and space. Inside the gallery she presents a video projection of the outside street creating two portals of reality that coexist in alternate dimensions on the notion of time/ space of quantum physics.

 Fashion/Cachifashion, 2006 Ani Villanueva’s performance calls attention to social politics presenting a ‘fashion’ show with models dressed with plastic ‘dresses’.  Cachifashion refers to a pejorative term used in the 70’s in Venezuela to refer to the maids or to the boring tasks women usually perform at home.

Electrik Cinema, an outdoor cinema projection by Franceasca Seiden & Iris Cegarra

isa compilation of short films and electro documentaries composed from a series of vignettes of 3GZ collection. They question film mythologies and render homage to past-present film making production.