From: Fernando Llanos <[email protected]> Subject: 10th aluCine / Toronto Latin Media Festival Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:48:24 -0500
10th aluCine Toronto Latin Media Festival Nov. 12-28, 2009 http://www.alucinefestival.com/ Contemporary Mexican Art in AluCine 2009: Fernando LLANOS / Punto suspensivoŠ (sculpture video, talk and screnning) Tania AEDO, Memory, New Media in Mexico (talk and screening) Laura BARRON, Nostalgia (video installation) November, Thursday 12th 2009, 7:30pm Fernando Llanos y Laura Barron: Installations (part of group show) Lennox Contemporary 12 Ossington Ave. Toronto, ON M6J 2Y7 (Closing, November, Saturday 28th 2009) November Friday 13th, 7:00pm. Fernando Llanos: "Videoman" talk and screening Lennox Contemporary November Friday 21th 2009, 9:00pm Tania Aedo: "Memory, New Media in Mexico" (Talk and screening. Complete program bellow. Co-presented by Images Festival) CineCycle 129 Spadina Ave. (In the alley south of Spadina Ave & Richmond St.) Toronto, ON This year aluCine's Installations bring together Canadians and Latin-American artists. Regardless of their place of residence, they are all tightly connected and bound by the process of constant transformation when art and new technology meet. In their video projections, these artists combine classical techniques of visual representation (drawing, painting, sculpture and photography) with digital reproduction practices, creating an on-going dialogue between traditional and modern techniques. Programmers, Curators: Hugo Ares, Jorge Lozano. . Fernando Llanos studied at La Esmeralda National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving in Mexico, specializing in video. In 2000 he became interested in the relation between video and the Internet, e-mailing short works to a circle of 500 in countries such as the US, Cuba, Mexico and in Brazil. He created a website (fllanos.com) with videos lasting less than 26 seconds. Punto Suspensivo Sculpture Video: "Chamaco, my Chihuahua dog, gave me an iPhone at Christmas 2007. Since then I have been taking several daily pictures, with multiple interests and purposes. In these 20 months I have taken 13,921 iphoneographys, for this piece transferred to video and showed in a display that second to second present them for approximately four hours. The way of presenting them is through a mini-plasma that rotates 90 degrees left to right, depending on the photograph format, vertical or horizontal, highlighting with this rhythm the immediacy and excessive generation of images nowadays (2,000,000 pictures are uploaded daily on the site www.flickr.com). It shows the day to day (if you have the patience to see it completely) for over a year of an artist that has made the sharing of his privacy one of his concerns. This point is only one of the many that are suspended on the cyberspace." www.fllanos.com/puntosuspensivo Fernando Llanos, Punto suspensivo Videoman (Talk and screening). "Fernando Llanos is one of the most interesting experimental artists in contemporary Mexico. His work shifts between several territories and disciplines, including video, robotics, ciberart and performance." Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Videoman captures the collective subconscious precisely where culture and counterculture meet. The stage is the street, a laboratory where people make their way without noticing how they transform their environment and create new models of coexistence. The artist makes us reflect on the type of conscious which can be generated by a society where the masses obstruct, uniform and ignore but nevertheless create certain voids where the human being can flow individually - voids employed by Llanos to change both our routine and our spaces. His reflections are projected in video format in different, previously analyzed points of the city. The ephemeral and mobile nature of the project involves the public through a closed-circuit system that records the reactions to this participative action defined by its creator as "urban acupuncture". www.fllanos.com/vi_video Laura Barron, Nostalgia Laura Barron was born in Mexico. She received her undergraduate in Visual Arts at the UNAM and her Master in Visual Arts at York University. Since 1993 she has been actively producing and has exhibited en Mexico, Canada, Japan, Venezuela, and USA. Her work is a part of the following public collections: Kiyasoto Museum of Photography Art, Japan, Museo del Carmen, Mexico City, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Walter Philip's Gallery, Canada, Cultural Foundation Omnilife, Mexico City, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, USA, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada. In 2003 she immigrates to Toronto, the long process to adaptation to a new culture became a new focus point of her art. Nostalgia Video Installation: "Throughout my art practice I've been concerned with transforming images of existing landscapes into images of places that do not exist. My work was devoted to exploring landscape and its connection with memory. These images were my own private paradises, deeply desolate and de-populated yet functioning as a kind of antidote to the very large, sprawling and crowded city where I was raised-a place that in my mind I often imagined as some massive body of water. (This image in fact derives in part from the fact that the former Mexico-Tenochtitlan, today's Mexico City, was built on small islands.) I no longer live in Mexico City, but its presence lingers within my imagination nevertheless. In keeping with my interest in creating images as alternative worlds, worlds that at once reflect actual geographical spaces and interior spaces or reflections of the unconscious mind, the work I'm presenting explores the ambivalence of the nostalgic condition, the desire to be always where one is not, and its inherent impossibility". Tania Aedo has used digital technology in her artistic practice since 1993. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema, and New Media, and the Kyoto Art Center. She have been the director of the Centro Multimedia at the Centro Nacional de las Artes (CENART) and currently is the director of Laboratorio Arte Alamenda, both in Mexico City. In addition, she teaches and lectures on art and new media in other national and international forums. Aedo has been recognized with several fellowships and grants, including a 1998 residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. She studied Visual Arts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Her talk "Memory, New Media in Mexico" contextualizes a project intended to recuperate, and to expose Mexican new media productions. The laboratory "Arte Alameda" commissioned a group of curators-researchers to put together programs that will help to build an archeology of the new media practice in Mexico, to compile documents for the creation of an archive specifically related to new media production. This project was presented at the aperture of the first Centre for the Documentation of New Media in Mexico. The centre houses in its numerous archives the theoretical work by and about Mexican artists including the work of Príamo Lozada founder of the Alameda Laboratory. With the recuperation of this Memory the project has become a centre of reference for present and future generations. Screening Schedule November Friday 21th 2009, 9:00pm CineCycle 129 Spadina Ave. (In the alley south of Spadina Ave & Richmond St.) Toronto, ON Program: Origens and Technology Los rollos perdidos de Pancho Villa. Gregorio rocha 2003. 45:00 min. Video. (fragment) Lost Portraits: Lula Ricardo Nicolayevsky 1982-1985/2000. 00:25 min. Super-8. (fragment) Program: Otredad The American Egypt Jesse Lerner 2001. 57:00 min. 16mm. (fragment) Exotic Nippon Bruno varela 2008. 01:35. Super-8 (fragment) Program: Frontera Fronterilandia Rubén Ortiz/Jesse Lerner 1995. 16mm. 77:00 min. (fragment) Scarlet, en Tracking Memory Amanda Gutiérrez 05:45 min. (fragment) Program: Cuerpo Golpeando la gelatina Claudia Prado 2002. 04:26 min. (fragment) Cama Ximena Cuevas 1998. 02:00 min. (fragment) Program: Movimiento/percepción Correr entre bejucos Bruno Varela 2006. 00:58 min. Super-8 intervenido. (fragment) Program: Mediación/Consumo Šde negocios y placer Iván Edeza 2000. 01:39 min. (fragment) Invasión doméstica Paulina del Paso 2002. 03:13 min. (fragment) Phonesex Doménico Cappello 2001.00:56 min. No D.R. A. Salomón 2002. (fragment) Sound Art Curated by Manuel Rocha e Israel M Selection of audiovisual material from the sound program Música de cámara (fragment) Colectivo música de cámara 1982. Video, Registro de acción Memorable Family Curated by Grace Quintanilla Fragment selection of some of the works from the program Daniel Reyes para presidente (fragment) Danny Reyes 2009.Documental Panóptico (fragment) Roberto Reyes Videoarte Revision of authors Curated by Karla Jasso and Tania Aedo Selection Sarah Minter Documentary (fragment) Andrés Padilla y Dalia Huerta Cano Campermedia Co-presented by Images Festival: www.startright.scotiabank.com www.artealameda.bellasartes.gob.mx www.consulmex.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
