CultureTV - July 3rd edition 2008
Latin American art has its origins in the many different indigenous cultures that inhabited the continent before the Spanish invasion in the 16th Century. Each culture developed sophisticated artistic criteria, which in most cases was strongly linked with religious conceptions.The Latin American contemporary art and especially the video-art has become more innovative and broader of conceptions.
Video is a digital art form and, as such, both contemporary and universal; it is subject to global trends. To specifically characterise Latin-American video art it is not only related to religious conceptions, Indian cultures and internal conflicts.
In contrast with Europe, there is hardly any financial support in Latin America for digital artistic productions. So media artists are in a tough situation. Most distribution channels are set up and maintained by individuals - often exhibition curators or initiators of media projects. Many video artists have to find jobs in other sectors to finance their art. This makes some of them leave video art for what it is after a few years, but it also makes the art form more diverse and multi-disciplinary.
Curated by Marjan van Mourik
Pulsefront (1:00, 2008) - Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967. In 1989 he received a B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. Electronic artist, develops large-scale interactive installations in public space, usually deploying new technologies..
Moebius Display (1:00, 2008) - Martin Bonadeo
Video: Moebius Display, dynamic luminic sculpture The existence of an infinite "strip" of 1s and 0s in the physical universe is a bit problematic. Couldnt one use some sort of Hilbert curve to pack an infinite line into a two dimensional space and read off the digits..
La Procesion (4:17, 2007) - Grimanesa Amoros
The forces of life and death are often seen as opposed and our own fear of dying renders us incapable of understanding their interconnectedness; however, death as an integral stage of existence is impossible to ignore. Destruction necessarily precedes creation; we are..
Unfinished Business (1:00, 2008) - Manuela Gallo
“Chile is a small country traumatized by a long dictatorship with an island mentality and powerful natural barriers: a high mountain range blocks us off the East while the country ends with the Pacific in the West.” (Catalina Mena) Born in Rome, Italy, in 1977 where..
Lucia (3:50, 2008) - Cristóbal León
Lucía remembers the summer in which she fell in love with Luis. The furniture whithin a bedroom is shaken and destroyed, meanwhile the charcoal Lucía appears and vanishes on the walls. Lucía is a stop motion animation.