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Cultural Revolution Posters in SF

Zulma — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:41:31 +0000

Ok this post goes out to the Just Seeds Collective. They’re amazingly talented artists themselves but they keep me up to date with their blog as to their favorite artists.

Lincoln Cushing at the Asian Art Museum, SF

Posted July 16, 2010 by jmacphee in Posters & Prints

Poster archivist and expert Lincoln Cushing will be presenting on the posters of the Chinese Cultural Revolution at the end of the month. I’m sure it will be well worth checking out if you are in SF:

Art or propaganda? An unconventional look at the posters of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
A slideshow talk by Lincoln Cushing and Ann Tompkins

Saturday, July 31, 2-4 PM
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin Ave., S.F.
$15 Society for Asian Art members, $25 nonmembers

http://www.societyforasianart.org:80/newsletter.html

also DeeDee Halleck my communications professor @ UC San Diego who introduced me to the alternative New Media, Media and Art World is the producer of a blog called Waves of Change and Mr. McPhee wrote about their latest project. I do believe Olelo is on there for the local community media center. Cool

Waves of Change

Posted June 15, 2010 by jmacphee in Film & Video

Dee Dee Halleck of Paper Tiger TV and Deep Dish TV has been working on a mapping/survey of community media projects from around the world. An interesting and useful project, you can check out a cool world map of community media HERE, and learn more HERE.

and, of course. why not…

Racists in School Tell artists to change the race of a child on a mural

Posted June 11, 2010 by meredith_stern in In the News

Ok—this is insane! Someone forwarded us this article and I am stunned. I understand with the current racist anti-immigration law in Arizona, this sort of racism is not surprising. However, I will never stop being shocked at just how backwards American mainstream politics is. It’s crazy that Americans still consider ourselves the most “forward” thinking nation in the world when in the 21st century we are still censoring art because of our internalized and institutional racism. School administrators still believe that whiteness is the standard to emulate in art and media; even though we are a nation of ethnicities from all over the world and white people are the minority ethnicity when considering the world as a whole. America’s first inhabitants were Native Americans, and everyone who has immigrated here (and stolen the land) come from all over the world. We are a nation of immigrants, and yet we have one of the most restrictive immigration policies- we deny our history and rewrite it constantly. When will we stop being hypocritical, judgemental, racist, classist, and so close-minded?

Here is the Article From the New York Daily News.com:

“Artists who painted a mural at an elementary school in Prescott depicting four students, with the most prominent being a Hispanic boy, were asked to lighten the faces amid taunts and tensions.

R.E. Wall, the artist who heads the Prescott Downtown Mural Project, told a local newspaper passersby regularly shouted racially charged comments at his group while they were creating the mural at the Miller Valley Elementary School.

“You’re desecrating our school,” “Get the ni—- off the wall,” “Get the sp– off the wall,” were common, Wall said. “The pressure stayed up consistently,” Wall said. “We had two months of cars shouting at us.”

The mural shows students using various methods of “green” transportation, but the colors of the students have generated all the attention.

The mural flap comes amid growing tensions over Arizona’s strict new immigration law that has drawn nationwide criticism and praise.

The ranting of one city councilman seems to have revved up the controversy in the community.

“Art is in the eye of the beholder, but I say [the mural] looks like graffiti in L.A.,” Councilman Steve Blair said.

“I am not a racist individual,” Blair said on a radio show last month, “but I will tell you depicting a black guy in the middle of that mural, based upon who’s President of the United States today and based upon the history of this community, when I grew up we had four black families – who I have been very good friends with for years – to depict the biggest picture on that building as a black person, I would have to ask the question, ‘Why?’”

The “black guy” in the mural is based on a student of Mexican descent, a school official said.

According to the most recent census data, Prescott is more than 90% white, with 8.2% claiming Hispanic origin. Blacks, Asians and Native Americans compose less than 3% combined, the data show.

Blair said Wednesday diversity is a word “I can’t stand.”

“The focus doesn’t need to be on what’s different; the focus doesn’t need to be on the minority all the time,” he said.

Wall said his artists began touching up the mural earlier this week.

“They want us to lighten up the forehead and the cheeks [of the boy in the center], and make him look like he is coming into the light,” he said. The school told Wall they want the children to appear more “radiant and happy.”

The school’s principal, Jeff Lane, told the newspaper he asked the artists to “remove some shadowing that made the faces darker than they are.”

He added the negative comments over the mural have mostly ended.

“I think I only received one this past week.”

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/06/04/2010-06-04_arizona_school_asks_artists_to_lighten_face_of_hispanic_student_on_mural.html#ixzz0qZHx1nrL

Waiting A Poem by Faith Wilding

Zulma — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:59:28 +0000

Waiting
A15-minute monolog, scripted and performed by Faith Wilding in the Performance program at Womanhouse, “Waiting” condenses a woman’s entire life into a monotonous, repetitive cycle of waiting for life to begin while she is serving and maintaining the lives of others. The full text was published by Ms. Magazine in 1972, and in the Appendix of “Through the Flower” by Judy Chicago.

Waiting

A Poem by Faith Wilding

Waiting . . . waiting . . . waiting . . .

Waiting for someone to come in

Waiting for someone to hold me

Waiting for someone to feed me

Waiting for someone to change my diaper Waiting . . .

Waiting to scrawl, to walk, waiting to talk

Waiting to be cuddled

Waiting for someone to take me outside

Waiting for someone to play with me

Waiting for someone to take me outside

Waiting for someone to read to me, dress me, tie my shoes

Waiting for Mommy to brush my hair

Waiting for her to curl my hair

Waiting to wear my frilly dress

Waiting to be a pretty girl

Waiting to grow up Waiting . . .

Waiting for my breasts to develop

Waiting to wear a bra

Waiting to menstruate

Waiting to read forbidden books

Waiting to stop being clumsy

Waiting to have a good figure

Waiting for my first date

Waiting to have a boyfriend

Waiting to go to a party, to be asked to dance, to dance close

Waiting to be beautiful

Waiting for the secret

Waiting for life to begin Waiting . . .

Waiting to be somebody

Waiting to wear makeup

Waiting for my pimples to go away

Waiting to wear lipstick, to wear high heels and stockings

Waiting to get dressed up, to shave my legs

Waiting to be pretty Waiting . . .

Waiting for him to notice me, to call me

Waiting for him to ask me out

Waiting for him to pay attention to me

Waiting for him to fall in love with me

Waiting for him to kiss me, touch me, touch my breasts

Waiting for him to pass my house

Waiting for him to tell me I’m beautiful

Waiting for him to ask me to go steady

Waiting to neck, to make out, waiting to go all the way

Waiting to smoke, to drink, to stay out late

Waiting to be a woman Waiting . . .

Waiting for my great love

Waiting for the perfect man

Waiting for Mr. Right Waiting . . .

Waiting to get married

Waiting for my wedding day

Waiting for my wedding night

Waiting for sex

Waiting for him to make the first move

Waiting for him to excite me

Waiting for him to give me pleasure

Waiting for him to give me an orgasm Waiting . . .

Waiting for him to come home, to fill my time Waiting . . .

Waiting for my baby to come

Waiting for my belly to swell

Waiting for my breasts to fill with milk

Waiting to feel my baby move

Waiting for my legs to stop swelling

Waiting for the first contractions

Waiting for the contractions to end

Waiting for the head to emerge

Waiting for the first scream, the afterbirth

Waiting to hold my baby

Waiting for my baby to suck my milk

Waiting for my baby to stop crying

Waiting for my baby to sleep through the night

Waiting for my breasts to dry up

Waiting to get my figure back, for the stretch marks to go away

Waiting for some time to myself

Waiting to be beautiful again

Waiting for my child to go to school

Waiting for life to begin again Waiting . . .

Waiting for my children to come home from school

Waiting for them to grow up, to leave home

Waiting to be myself

Waiting for excitement

Waiting for him to tell me something interesting, to ask me how I feel

Waiting for him to stop being crabby, reach for my hand, kiss me good morning

Waiting for fulfillment

Waiting for the children to marry

Waiting for something to happen Waiting . . .

Waiting to lose weight

Waiting for the first gray hair

Waiting for menopause

Waiting to grow wise

Waiting . . .

Waiting for my body to break down, to get ugly

Waiting for my flesh to sag

Waiting for my breasts to shrivel up

Waiting for a visit from my children, for letters

Waiting for my friends to die

Waiting for my husband to die Waiting . . .

Waiting to get sick

Waiting for things to get better

Waiting for winter to end

Waiting for the mirror to tell me that I’m old

Waiting for a good bowel movement

Waiting for the pain to go away

Waiting for the struggle to end

Waiting for release

Waiting for morning

Waiting for the end of the day

Waiting for sleep Waiting . . .

“Waiting” was performed at Womanhouse in Los Angeles sponsored by the Feminist Art Program, California Institute of the Arts.

Zulma: I saw this video at the WACK exhibition in Washington D.C. @ the National Museum of Women in the Arts. It was the most moving video piece of Faith Wilding performing the waiting piece. I wish this was on youtube to share with you this powerful video but until then here is the Waiting poem she so beautifully performed at the original Womanhouse installation with Judy Chicago back in the 70′s.

Links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Wilding

an awesome PDF

Faith Wilding emigrated to the United States in l961 from Paraguay. She received her MFA at CalArts where she was a founding member of the Feminist Art Program. Wilding is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work addresses aspects of the somatic, psychic, and sociopolitical history of the body. Recent publications, lectures, exhibitions and performances focus on issues of cyberfeminist (women and technology) theory and practice, with particular emphasis on biotechnology. Wilding has exhibited and lectured widely in the USA and Europe. Her audio work has been commissioned and broadcast by RIAS Berlin; WDR Cologne; and National Public Radio, USA. Wilding has published in MEANING, Heresies, Ms. Magazine, The Power of Feminist Art, and other books and magazines. She is the recipient of two individual media grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, Wilding is a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the MFA in Visual Art Program at Vermont College of the Union Institute and University.

She’s also part of the Critical Art Ensemble which I had the opportunity to learn so much about in my graduate program. I didn’t know she was part of this until now. Wow. That just makes Faith even that more amazing.

Oh what a wonderful review of Work of Art

Zulma — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:33:03 +0000

click hereWork of Art Review by Frieze Magazine’s Jennifer Doyle

Jennifer Doyle

Jennifer Doyle is the author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (University of Minnesota, 2006) and is finishing a manuscript on difficulty and contemporary art for Duke University Press and teaches at the University of California, Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles, and writes about sports at From A Left Wing.

Women without Men

Zulma — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:50:20 +0000

From walkerartblog

Shirin Neshat?s staggering film showed at the Walker on Friday, April 16th and Saturday April 17th to sold out audiences.

Description by Sara Saljoughi:

Women Without Men ? Neshat?s first feature film ? is an adaptation of Iranian novelist Shahrnush Parsipur?s novel by the same title. Neshat?s fascination with Parsipur?s novel and her own exploration of the literary work?s intrinsic visual qualities were evident in her Zarin Series (2005), a collection of photographs inspired by one of the novel and film?s main characters, Zarin. Women without Men hones in on the life of four women ? Zarin, Faezeh, Munis and Fakhri ? in one of the most politically tumultuous times in modern Iranian history, the 1953 CIA-backed coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.

Neshat?s adaptation of Parsipur?s novel manages to perform a striking interpretation of the written work?s elements of magical realism.

The film?s muted palette, which is at moments reminiscent of Kodachrome photographs, takes us away from ?realism,? something which has almost come to be expected from Iranian filmmakers, into a world that is seemingly discordant with the one we know, both in the realm of the physical and the emotive.

Laniakea Beach Hawaiian Turtles

Zulma — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:55:38 +0000

Laniakea, originally uploaded by ChicanaFeliz.

I’m volunteering as a Honu Guardian at Laniakea Beach. Today was my first day but it was really fun interacting with the tourists and I stayed all day since 8am just to capture this Hawaiian Green Turtle basking in the Sun.

Happy Father’s Day Miguel!

Zulma — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:06:33 +0000

Sprint PictureMail, originally uploaded by ChicanaFeliz.

My father, came to the United States in 1962 invited by the US Govt. at a time that all the WWII veterans returned from the war injured and male the population of the US was low. Workers were needed to perform the work of agriculture while those men returned to factory jobs. My father worked here for 30 years until one of his jobs led him to Hawaii. The Dole pineapple company. Today, he’s retired and this photo was taken last night at Sunset in Haleiwa in the North Shore of Oahu. He loves it here. He mentioned he wished all his children were with him that day. Today we’re making Mexican rice and driving it up to the beach house to celebrate my father.

Work of Art: Episode 2

Zulma — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:35:21 +0000

I really think that this reality show is going to reveal at the end of it that Miles isn’t really obsessive compulsive and it was all a performance and he’s just a great actor who can perform crazy and artist too. I really don’t think his work this week was that spectacular to win. I think the best piece aesthetically was actually the barbie girl, without the stupid frame she put in there. ugh. but it also reminded me of Nao’s work because of the TV in the water. Same thing with Miles winning the first episode, he used Nao’s concept to win it. Inspired by Nao’s Sans Gravite, he won the first episode. Maybe its because he’s Caucasian and a man is it that the judges find him relatable and therefore they feel as though they are connecting to his work. Maybe they see their son or nephew Miles’ eyes and this is what prompts them to believe he’s a great artist. I think they think that their choices are what the general public, the dumbed down TV viewer thinks is good art. I really think they’re making their choices based on appearances. After all, they already make choices about what is good art depending on if it “would bring some of the gallerists profits” or as one judge from the lower east side described, would make money. This word that another judge used, “Wall Power”. What the hell is that? You can’t base all your judgements on what is good art depending on how many people are attracted. That’s like saying that only Cherry pies are good art because all the flies like to lay on it. Ridiculous. This latest episode barely had Nao in it. It was almost like she was intentionally edited out. Then again, I guess they focus on only the most controversial pieces. The 3 bad and the so called, 3 good pieces.
The reason why I think Miles is a fake artist is that they allow him to speak as if he’s also the authority on art. I can’t believe Throng did not defend his work like Nao did. I guess he wanted to leave and with dignity. Maybe they were going to Eliminate Nao on the first week because it looks like this show is trying to get rid of the strongest artists firsts. This reality show is like that show where they try to reform the past girlfriends of Flava Flave. You know, the one with Monique. It thinks it can help an artist be better. Kind of like the Biggest Loser. The one who can lose the most weight wins. Therefore the fattest guy might always be the biggest loser because he has the most to lose. The point is, that the show wants to end up seeming to be “useful” to the participant. If the show is of no use, meaning, the show didn’t make you a better, person or in this case, artist, I’m afraid they’re going to let you go. When they think that this person is not going to “grow” in front of the TV audience they consider letting them go. Most of all, the reason why Trong left and not that hideous older lady is because the older lady can improve, whereas Trong already has a style. The same with Nao. I hope Nao can prove to these judges somehow that she can grow in this competition and that she is the next best artist because she is perhaps now the most experienced besides Trong who unfortunately was just let go. I loved his piece. I totally got it. I actually think he should have put What would Trong Do? instead of that conceptual artist. This would have “put himself inside the work” which is basically their excuse for saying, I know you’re not going to become a better artist from this show. You know? anyway, Work of Art is slowly becoming a disaster at this point. If Nao wasn’t on the show, I’d seriously stop watching it. I’m completely offended by the choices of the judges. Its almost like an anti-art show. losers!

Nao Bustamante’s show in SF

Zulma — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:16:22 +0000

FW: Lindsey White, Nao Bustamante & David Kasprzak, originally uploaded by ChicanaFeliz.

NAO BUSTAMANTE: Deathbed
June 19 – July 14, 2010 in the Lower Level
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 19, 4-7pm

“In 2003, I joined thousands of other pilgrims at the Frank E. Campbell
Funeral Home at Madison Avenue and 81st Street in Manhattan to see the queen
of salsa, Celia Cruz, lie in state. The image of Celia on her post-mortem
tour burned into my mind. She was wearing all cream colored garments and had
pearl shaded nail polish and held a gold crucifix. She “slept” in a cream
colored satin interior, and bronze exterior coffin. Her hair, which was
colored in her signature golden hues, was arranged like a sleeping mermaid on
the pillow, her eyes were shut with brush of silver shadow. Her lips carried
a faint and restful smile. Celia was prepared to die and arranged much of the
tableau. In Deathbed, I continue the mediation of childhood, but attempt to
call up the precise moment at which a life is exiting the body; the surprise
and release of leaving.” – Nao Bustamante

Wednesday Nights – Watch Nao Bustamante on Bravo’s”Work of Art: the Next
Great Artist”
www.bravotv.com/work-of-art

DAVID KASPRZAK: Bless This Mess
June 19 – July 14, 2010 in the Bookstore
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 19, 4-7pm

“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And
unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the
world as changeable.”
-Ernst Fischer

Baer Ridgway Exhibitions presents Bless This Mess, an exhibition by
artist/curator David Kasprzak. This exhibition of drawings,
photo-assemblages, sculpture, and collected ephemera illustrates the
destruction and decay of materials and ideologies. Bless This Mess examines
the role and importance of destruction in art and contemporary society as
more of a mode of transformation than a memento mori.

BRX is located at 172 Minna (between 3rd and New Montgomery) in downtown San
Francisco,
next to the SFMOMA. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00am to
6:00pm.

Very best,

Kent Baer & Eli Ridgway

Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
172 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

Work of Art on Bravo TV Episode 1 was sad.

Zulma — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:11:04 +0000

I can’t believe they let Andrea go. I felt so bad for her. She was trained in Design and was an architect. She had the most potential. But I guessed they liked the realist self-proclaimed “amature”. I feel like this TV show should be called Work of Sellable art. Or Work of Realist Art. Because these jacked up judges only go for the gold. They’re not looking for art, as one of the judges said, they’re looking for something they can sell. Wow. He sounds like a feudal lord from the days of the monarchy.

On Nao’s Facebook Wall:
Loved the show Nao. You were at the bottom 3. these guys know nothing about Contemporary Art. If what they said was true then they’d have thrown the work of John Cage out the window. You had parameters, concept, execution. Aesthetics. Loved it.

from facebook on my status

Nao was great. Straight out of a contemporary art book. I don’t think she needs a show @ the Brookyn, I think the Whitney is more appropriate! Those judges are super whacked!
3 minutes ago

Zulma Aguiar Finally wayching Work of Art tv show on DVR b4 work in my livingroom
about an hour ago via Text Message super close, cool, Family; Except: Limited Profile ? Comment ? LikeUnlike ? View Feedback (2)

Nao in the New York Times

Zulma — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:30:02 +0000

Oh my god, this is awesome. oh my god. Nao and I love the New York Times. Since Nao teaches in New York and lives in New York and I was her student in New York our dream was always to be reviewed by the New York Times. Nao’s already been mentioned but what felt really awesome is that this time they got a lot of their information off of wikipedia.
I remember trying to help Nao with her Web 2.0 launch a few years ago. I remember also confessing to her that I updated wikipedia with the fact that her brother was Nao Bustamante. She read it, turned and looked at me like I had slung shit in her face. She was furious. But Nao never says anything when she’s mad, in fact she just becomes paralized and she has so much poise. She begins to ask a lot of questions. She’s so awesome. So, I responded. Nao, Nao, for real, this is important. Believe me, I said, I know that you don’t want to make a name for yourself by mixing your name up with that of your political brother in California, but seriously, it is relevant. It is a reality that you are former Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante’s brother. She was like, but this page is about me.. blah blah blah. I didn’t listen. I know plenty about wikipedia that even though she could have deleted it its already in the history, archived. Any random user or wikipedia admin could re-insert the contraversial fact just to make the page more popular and give it more hits. I consider myself a meta master, a hit maker for websites. I think I know the algorithm to google or something because I know that if I want attention re: something like the Women of Juarez film I made or any topic like femicide or Nao Bustamante, if I blog about it they will come. by they, I mean the spiders and robots of search engines like google and that other retarded new search engine that microsoft has made that nobody except Jay Leno cares about because he gets paid by NBC the corporate affiliate of MSNBC who is linked up with MS (MicroSoft) In any case,
yeah, Nao’s show airs tomorrow, I can’t wait. Right now on facebook Nao released the video that she used to send to Bravo TV as an audition for the program she’s mentioned in the NYT in and I’m so excited. Wow. The day before the show airs, the NYT picks up the story. I hope Nao publishes a book about her experience becoming a reality TV star. I hope she titles it that way.. becoming.. and then in smaller letters a Reality TV star underneath.
tee hee. anyway
i was having a shitty day because my dad was suffering from hypochodria and faked a near death experience just because i’ve been working my under employed position at the temp agency and well I’ve been busy. super busy. then evenings I spend with my man here every night. I barely get to see Dad. I really need to go back to church. that was our ritual. No matter what we did all week, we’d always see each other at church then we’d go for some tacos and he’d make fun of the ladies who wore too much perfume or wore bikini’s underneath their tanktops to church. This is Hawaii, the ladies tend to be very under dressed. Everybody wears flip flops even to church. its hilarious. Anyway, I’ve been living in Hawaii, officially for a year now June 8, 2010. Wow, today is my 1 year anniversary of leaving the mainland. no wonder it was a crappy day. this economy is strangling me and forcing me to live with my dad. its not easy to come back humbled and over educated. jajaja. I can barely relate to people but I’m hangin’ in there. I’m spoiled. My best friends all talked about Derrida and Karl Marx and here people don’t even know the difference between capitalism & socialism.
Its a nightmare. Hawaii is beautiful but it certainly feels like a ship of fools.
Anyway, I’m glad that Nao posted up her video or else that whiney part of this post would have gone on way longer. She’s such a breath of fresh air and the NYT writer noticed it. I loved that line too regarding how established Nao was, but then again, I also loved the line where she says, I want them to be able to hear the panty hose. jajaja
Nao in my experience is the best performance artist living. Not only is she nice, but she is so loving and kind too. She only snaps at ignorant people who claim to know about performance art but can’t even understand the theory of Nao’s best friend Jose Mu?oz the Department Chair of NYU’s Performance Art Dept. Jose should be next year’s judge, but you know what, he’s too smart to be on that show. I agree, with that NYT writer. I loved that judge he’s talking about and I also was unimpressed with Chow’s resume. I’d have to know her and listen to what she knows about art in person to truly make a judgement. I guess I’ll have to wait for the show. But yeah, to say things like the Greenberg lady only makes me remember that her last name is Greenberg, similiar to the biggest art snob in the history of contemporary art. remember Alan Greenberg? rolling eyes. Him and his Kitsch!

LOOKING FOR A Hawaii VENUE FOR Work of Art SCREENING

Zulma — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:11:15 +0000

I WANT TO WATCH “WORK OF ART” COLLECTIVELY and open to the public in Chinatown, near Mark’s Garage. anyone know the person who can open up shop and start like cool Work of Art Screenings on Wed at 7pm downtown?

Let me know, I’ll host them, email me at zulmaa@gmail.com

TO CHECK OUT “WORK OF ART” EPISODES ONLINE

Zulma — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:38:56 +0000

BECAUSE YOU WORK, OR HAVE A LIFE
AND don’t pay for cable because you actually READ instead of watch TV and visit art shows (meaning you have an intellectual life) then just before going to work in the mornings turn on your laptop synchronized 60 inch TV and visit THE HULU website of WORK OF ART.

Then you can check out the TV show and obviously watch because my homegirl, Art Professor and Thesis Advisor is on TV as of this Wednsday!

Nao Bustamante IS RSS’ABLE, HULU’able

Zulma — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:34:48 +0000

Nao Bustamante, originally uploaded by ChicanaFeliz.

Oh my god, now that Nao is on that TV Show that Sarah Jessica Parker is producing, I’m like totally excited and I feel like even though I’m stuck in this BEAUTIFUL Island, I can write about Art again. By the way, the first time I saw Sarah on TV was on HBO when I lived in Calexico. I was a little Mexican American girl and I got all my fashion ideas about the 80′s and 90′s from this one movie that Sarah was in called “Girls just Wanna have fun”. I remember thinking I was her sassy wild friend. Technically it kinda stirred up the same emotions that Sex & the City now stirs up in me. The fact that they were 16 and had crushes on bad boys with cute-formerly-hic, turned James Dean look a likes with just the addition of a leather jacket was awesome. I knew from that movie that if I were to be accepted one day as a Chicana Feliz in this society that I’d have to change my style.

Jessica since became a fashion icon since then. In retrospect my little chicana teenage hormones told me she’d be awesome one day because I fell in love with her ever since. But in any case, SJP is now producing (paying for) a TV Show that my professor is in. Nao Bustamante, deserves a show @ the Brooklyn Museum next to the permanent installation of the Dinner Table. Everybody knows that real art makes people want to change their lives into an art process and not just a dreary repetition of yesterday. Nao lives her life every day like an artist. She could have the biggest deadline in the world, but if fufu needs to take a walk, she will stop the world to be with her dog. In consequence she’ll invite people on facebook out for a walk and suddenly you have a team of artist marching around downtown troy all gawking and ooing at the beauty of fufu (nao’s dog) in the middle of an urbanly decayed once industrial utopian town.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Nao Bustamante, my homegirl, my arts professor, my thesis advisor, the person who taught me what is an “Art Process” is on TV!

Yep, ok, ok, let me slow down and just tell you the chisme or the bochinche (see links for the translations).

A) There is a new show on TV premiering NEXT WEDNESDAY ON BRAVO TV! and its a TELEVISED ART COMPETITION!

Its the ultimate creation of the Society of the Spectacle. I bet you that’s why Nao applied to the call. Nao is a performance artist, a live artist, a video artist, a New Media Artist, a conceptual artist and she has been since she was a teenager. Nao has this photo album of all of her life experiences she once shared with me and I cried at how lovely and inspiring it was. To this day it makes me cry. Nao has lived out her every dream. She has sailed away on a boat with her husband. She has lived in a commune with other artists in Europe. She has lived in upstate NY for the past decade it seems. She’s remained close to her circle of friends all through social networking. I am in Hawaii and I still am close to Nao and know that she is one of the most loving and loved creatures at RPI! At the Art department we call her the big ball of love! If there is ever anything that you need, Nao will come to the rescue. She will stop her art process and bust out her Mexican ways and cook you an authentic organic locally grown Mexican meal just to confort you. To help you think about where you are in your art process and to talk with you in a calm quiet way over tea looking into the Hudson River with Fufu, where you should take your art next.

Nao, helped me complete the Masters in Fine Arts program through what seemed like Art Therapy. I actually think that this capitalist form of the show, meaning glorifying the individual is probably not the best thing for Nao, because that’s not how she is most efficient. Nao functions in a real society of artists. real living artists. This mass media corporate culture way of producing art has always been the problem, but not in Troy. Nao has thrived where people appreciate art for the process and the art. Believe me, Nao’s art process requires time and she makes time based media (video), however, Nao needs her own reality show. the crazy shit that happens in Troy over one year is enough footage to truly show you how calm and beautiful art making can be. Not like the high pressure, under time constraints pressure that the contestants of this show are having to perform.
I don’t know, I think that John Cage’s silent piece is one of the most amazing pieces I’ve heard in my whole lifetime. BRAVO should adress that Art has changed. They should take Maryanne’s Staniszewski’s class on What is Contemporary Art at RPI? She would say, YOU CAN ACCEPT IT OR YOU CAN REJECT IT? it is still art!

If you’re reading this because you’re sequestered from talking to us about details of the show, I want to say that you’re the best, remember that. Those guys are JUST FINE artists, you’re a LIVE artist. That makes it impossible to appreciate your work when you’re not alive. People have to take it in and love it while time wastes away. More valuable than money or materials is time! Your work is Time based art! Your process takes time and you are a master at Time Travel!

Nao Bustamante, Given Over to Want @ the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in Bogota, Colombia

Zulma — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:20:33 +0000

Nao Bustamante, Given Over to Want @ the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in Bogota, Colombia, originally uploaded by lotu5.

Nao Bustamante

Zulma — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:20:17 +0000

Cinco de MayPole, originally uploaded by yellowbutterknife.

getting ready off of Sunset Boulevard and Queen Street in LA

Cinco de MayPole

Zulma — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:19:25 +0000

Cinco de MayPole, originally uploaded by yellowbutterknife.

Nao Bustamante playing Rosita the Riveter for a performance in LA!

Nao Performing behind a white sheet

Zulma — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:18:54 +0000

0013_089_Feb2008, originally uploaded by Emerging Design & Photography.

Nao Bustamante Performs @ NYU

Zulma — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:18:36 +0000

Nao Bustamante Performs @ NYU, originally uploaded by ChicanaFeliz.

NYC immigrant demonstration

Zulma — Sat, 08 May 2010 04:45:51 +0000

NYC immigrant demonstration, originally uploaded by ChicanaFeliz.

Justice 4 Immigrants Filipino

Zulma — Sat, 08 May 2010 04:44:55 +0000

Justice 4 Immigrants Filipino, originally uploaded by ChicanaFeliz.

This is from the May 1st March in 2006. Only because I’d lived in Hawaii before did I have the sensitivity to take this snapshot in front of NYC City Hall. These reposts are a response to what is happening in Arizona with that stupid law meant to target latinos.

PBRC Third Annual Symposium on Biodiversity

Zulma — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:15:11 +0000

May 6, 8:00am – 1:00pm
Manoa Campus, Keoni Auditorium, East-West Center

The half-day symposium will feature talks on the value of preserving biodiversity in Hawai‘i and globally as part of the International Year of Biodiversity.

Speakers from the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa, federal agencies and community groups will talk about undergraduate and graduate training programs stressing environmental and evolutionary biology, alliances to preserve native biodiversity, tools for addressing marine biodiversity and the role of culture and community in protecting biodiversity.

Event Sponsor
Pacific Biosciences Research Center, Manoa Campus

More Information
Dr. Marilyn F. Dunlap, 956-7401, dunlap@pbrc.hawaii.edu, http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu

Artists of The Contemporary Pacific, 2003-2010

Zulma — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:14:48 +0000

January 11, 2010 – May 22, 2010
Manoa Campus, Hamilton Library Bridge Gallery
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The University of Hawai’i at Manoa Hamilton Library is proud to present a new exhibit, entitled Artists of The Contemporary Pacific, 2003-2010, now on view in the Phase II Elevator Gallery from January 11 through May 22, 2010.

This exhibit includes the covers of the issues from 2003 to the present, with information about the artists whose work appears on the covers as well as on inside pages. These covers were designed by Stacey Leong. Previous issues of The Contemporary Pacific (1989-2002), with covers designed by Barbara Pope, are also on display.

This exhibit is part of the yearlong celebration of the 60th anniversary of Pacific Islands Studies at Manoa. For more information about CPIS programs and publications, please see http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis.

The exhibit is viewable during building hours. Please check our website for up-to-date information.

Ticket Information
free & open to the public

Event Sponsor
UH Library & CPIS, Manoa Campus

More Information
Teri Skillman, 808-956-8688, skillman@hawaii.edu, http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/

BETWEEN: Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition 2010

Zulma — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:13:57 +0000

April 25, 2010 – May 14, 2010
Manoa Campus, Art Building, University of Hawaii Art Gallery
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The BFA students from the Department of Art and Art History, University of Hawaii at Manoa, are pleased to present “BETWEEN: Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition 2010.”

This exhibition is the culmination of a multi-year curriculum of academic study within the Department of Art and Art History, UHM. This annual exhibition presents the very finest art and design work created during the final stages of the BFA candidates’ coursework.

“BETWEEN: Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition 2010″ features recent undergraduate works in painting, printmaking, fiber, glass, drawing, graphic design, ceramics, sculpture, electronic arts and intermedia. While completing their own artwork, these students have also planned all aspects of the production and installation of the exhibition.

Ticket Information
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 10:30-5:00; Sunday 12:00-5:00. Admission is free. Donations are appreciated. Parking fees may apply.

Event Sponsor
Art and Art History, College of Arts and Humanities, and Manoa Arts & Minds, Manoa Campus

More Information
Sharon Tasaka, 808-956-6888, gallery@hawaii.edu, http://www.hawaii.edu/artgallery

Fwd: The UH Contemporary Music Ensemble plays Steve Reich

Zulma — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:56:47 +0000

Fwd: The UH Contemporary Music Ensemble plays Steve Reich, originally uploaded by ChicanaFeliz.

Wafaa tatoo’s himself for Art’s Sake

Zulma — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:37:03 +0000

“Art is a powerful medium. It engages people. And I think that’s what we need…[I]t really doesn’t matter what medium you decide to use. I think the objective is to engage people. But now more than ever, artists have a lot more powerful tools to play with…[A]rt does not have to be confined to a physical space, the gallery or museums, but now we have the power of the internet, when we could enter people’s homes and offices and engage them in the dialogue. Art is not only there to educate. Art is there to agitate, as well.” –Wafaa Bilal on DemocracyNow! March 9th, 2010

Please visit the blog http://genderacrossborders.com/2010/04/16/wafaa-bilal-art-as-agitation/ for the full article on Wafaa

This is my artist friend Wafaa. He’s pretty cutting edge when it comes to contemporary art. I really enjoy his work and I hope you can get a chance to engage with it too.

Josh McPhee helps curate an awesome show @LACE

Zulma — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:16:09 +0000

Places The U.S. Has Bombed Since W.W.II Josh MacPhee Spray paint and stencil, 2002 Chicago, Illinois 91.44 x 50.8 cm

Opening reception Thursday 11 March 2010, 8-10PM LACE is proud to present Art Against Empire—Graphic Responses to U.S. Intervention Since World War II, curated by Carol A. Wells from the archives of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG). Featuring works by Josh MacPhee, Corita Kent, Jay Belloli, Cedomic Kostovic, Stephen Kroninger, and more. Art Against Empire uses the power of posters to document 60 years of opposition to U.S. interventions into the domestic affairs of sovereign nations. Political, economic and military interventions, many of them covert, have repeatedly resulted in unacceptable deaths and misery for millions. These posters show hopes and dreams, and the pain of dreams destroyed. Art Against Empire showcases over 100 political posters in the LACE galleries, spanning two dozen sovereign nations including Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Guatemala, Haiti, Cuba, Iran, and South Africa. It attempts to inform, challenge and inspire by confronting the viewer with images of past struggles that remain powerfully relevant today. It both raises questions about past interventions and fosters debate about present ones. The exhibition will also provide insight into why the amount of devastation caused by the recent earthquake in Haiti can be linked to its long history of French colonialism and U.S. imperialism. The United States is the focus of this exhibition. As citizens, we are ultimately responsible for the actions that are taken by our government in our name. Censorship and repression, so prevalent in wartime, invariably attempt to eliminate dissent, thereby violating the principles on which this democracy was founded. These posters document the efforts of people who refuse to remain silent and who use the power of art to inspire action.

UPCOMING RELATED EVENTS All events are free and open to the public. Sunday 21 March 2010, 1PM – The Coca-Cola Case, screening and presentation Directors German Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia present a searing indictment of the Coca-Cola empire and its alleged kidnapping, torture and murder of union leaders trying to improve working conditions in Colombia, Guatemala and Turkey. Learn about the film here. The screening will be followed by a presentation by attorney, Theresa Traber, discussing the lawsuit and recent appeal against Chevron in Nigeria, and Patrick Bonner from Colombia Peace Project.

Saturday 27 March 2010, 3PM – Feminaissance, book launch hosted by Les Figues Press with readings by Maggie Nelson, Wanda Coleman, Christine Wertheim, Stephanie Young, Meiling Cheng, Vanessa Place and Teresa Carmody. Learn more about Feminaissance and Les Figues Press by downloading the press release here. Sunday 28 March 2010, 1PM – Gaza & Egypt 2009 & Arlington West Los Angeles delegates from the Gaza Freedom March 2009, Dara Wells-Hajjar and Shae Popovich will relay experiences of their recent trip to Gaza and Cairo. They will share stories, photos and art from this extremely dangerous but powerful trip. They will also discuss how we can continue the work to change global public opinion around Gaza and the occupied territories. The afternoon will also include a screening of Arlington West and a presentation by the film makers, Sally Marr and Peter Dudar. “I hope, for the sake of peace, that young people all over the country will see ARLINGTON WEST and come face to face with the consequences of war.” –Howard Zinn

Sunday 11 April 2010, 1PM – Film screenings: Panama Deception: Exposing the Cover Up!; Cover Up: Behind the Iran Contra Affair; Destination Nicaragua Thursday 15 April 15 2010, 7PM – Artists for a New South Africa, screening and presentation Screening of the acclaimed ROAD TO INGWAVUMA, which documents a journey through post-Apartheid South Africa by noted American performers and their families. The film highlights South Africa’s triumphs as well as its overwhelming challenges through the eyes of Deborah Santana, Alfre Woodard, Samuel L. Jackson, Carlos Santana, Jurnee Smollett, CCH Pounder, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, and friends, as they interact with activists, disadvantaged children, and leaders, including Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. ANSA director Sharon Gelman will discuss the intersection of arts and activism, the situation in South Africa, ANSA’s work, undertaken in partnership with grassroots African activists and NGOs, and how it has evolved over the past 20 years in response to the changing socio-political landscape.

ABOUT CSPG The Center for the Study of Political Graphicsis an educational and research archive that collects, preserves and exhibits graphics of social change. With more than 70,000 political posters, CSPG has the largest collection of post World War II human rights and protest posters in the U.S. Through traveling exhibitions, workshops and publications, CSPG is reclaiming the power of art to educate. For more, visit www.politicalgraphics.org. Check out a video of Adolfo Mexiac talking, in Spanish, about his “Freedom of Expression” poster.

Barely discovered Sister Nancy

Zulma — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:58:48 +0000

googled: Sister Nancy

Man, I missed her show in LA last year.

from wikipedia:

Sister Nancy, aka Muma Nancy, real name Ophlin Russell-Myers, (born Ophlin Russell, 2 January 1962, Kingston, Jamaica) is a dancehall DJ and vocalist (aka singer) of DANCEHALL. She is known to the world as the first female dancehall DJ and was described as being a “dominating female voice for over two decades” on the dancehall scene. One of her most famous songs is “Bam Bam”, labeled as a “well-known reggae anthem”.

The Lyrics to her famous song Bam Bam
A me seh one thing Nancy cyaan understan
one thing Nancy cyaan understan
wha’ mek dem a talk ’bout me ambishan
seh, wha’ mek dem a talk ’bout me ambishan
‘ca me seh some a dem a ax me whey me get it fram
‘ca some a dem a ax me whey me get it fram
a true dem nuh know it’s fram creation
a true dem nuh know it’s-a fram creation
bam bam, ey, what a bam bam,
bam bam dilla, bam bam
bam bam dilla, bam bam
‘ey what a bam bam, seh what a bam bam

Dis woman neva choble no one
I’m a lady, I’m not a man
MC is my ambishan
I come fi nice up Jamaica
so bam bam, what a bam bam
bam bam dilla, bam bam
‘ey a me seh what a bam bam,
seh what a bam bam
tell’em, tell’em

Me born an me grow ina Princeton 6
I Nancy write me presets lirics
when you hear dem nuh sound like…
You come ina de dread so me seh well well slick

bam bam, ‘ey seh what a bam bam
bam bam dilla, bam bam
bam bam dilla, bam bam
‘ey seh what a bam bam, seh what a bam bam

A some a dem a seh me a go mash up dem plan
a true dem nuh know me a one bisnis ‘oman
Sister Nancy she a one ina 3 million
Sister Nancy she a one ina 3 million
So bam bam, bam bam dilla, bam bam
bam bam dilla, bam bam
‘ey seh what a bam bam, seh what a bam bam

Seh go, Sister Nancy, mek you go
I tell yousel’ fi go Sister Nancy, mek you go
I know it from me head straight down to my toe
A tee-tar-toe Sister Nancy a me go
A some a dem a ax a Sister Nancy mek you bad so
bung dung didle-a Sister Nancy mek you bad so

I’m totally gonna keep an eye out for her now and check out any live performance she ever does in Hawaii. I pray and hope she’ll come one day or I see her in LA or even better in Jamaica.

Sister Nancy is still Rockin’ it. Dayem she’s the shit!

She needs a contemporary PR agent, poor ting she has a very humble Myspace page. I love her tho. I literally fell in love with her voice @ the UB40 concert last night. Wow! amazing song, its a transformative experience! I can’t wait to see her live!

The Situation in Haiti

Zulma — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:46:45 +0000

The Situation in Haiti, originally uploaded by ChicanaFeliz.

My mind is so influenced by American mass media that this image of Mike the Situation from the Jersey shore always comes to mind when I hear the news about Haiti or any situation around the world. CNN tends to use the term “the situation” quite a bit and I hate to say that I’m so overloaded with information.

LA: Art Against Empire Exhibition

Zulma — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:01:54 +0000

Art Against Empire

By Josh M.

This just in (from Evil Monito, check it HERE):

Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Intervention Since World War II
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
3/10 to 4/18/10

LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) is proud to present Art Against Empire?Graphic Responses to U.S. Intervention Since World War II, curated by Carol A. Wells from the archives of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG). Featuring works by Josh MacPhee, Corita Kent, Jay Belloli, Cedomic Kostovic, Stephen Kroninger, and more.

Art Against Empire uses the power of posters to document 60 years of opposition to U.S. interventions into the domestic affairs of sovereign nations. Political, economic and military interventions, many of them covert, have repeatedly resulted in unacceptable deaths and misery for millions. These posters show hopes and dreams, and the pain of dreams destroyed.

Art Against Empire showcases over 100 political posters in the LACE galleries, spanning two dozen sovereign nations including Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Guatemala, Haiti, Cuba, Iran, and South Africa. It attempts to inform, challenge and inspire by confronting the viewer with images of past struggles that remain powerfully relevant today. It both raises questions about past interventions and fosters debate about present ones. The exhibition will also provide insight into why the amount of devastation caused by the recent earthquake in Haiti can be linked to its long history of French colonialism and U.S. imperialism.

The United States is the focus of this exhibition. As citizens, we are ultimately responsible for the actions that are taken by our government in our name. Censorship and repression, so prevalent in wartime, invariably attempt to eliminate dissent, thereby violating the principles on which this democracy was founded. These posters document the efforts of people who refuse to remain silent and who use the power of art to inspire action.

Opening reception: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 8 to 10 pm

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
6522 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028

http://www.politicalgraphics.org/

http://www.welcometolace.org/

Braddock, Pennsylvania new Space

Zulma — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:58:42 +0000

Transformazium Music Video

By K C

An endearing animation about a project some friends have been creating in Braddock, PA. I can’t say I feel the same about Braddock. The sound of the steel mill and the polluted environment are thankfully absent. Regardless the folks involved are in a category of the most dedicated and hardworking peeps I know, and they know creative folks, watch it!

Transformazium Music Video from Joshua Tonies on Vimeo.

Transformazium: uses the creative process and locally identified resources to transform ideas into tangible social and economic benefits. Our collaborative arts programming and skill-building workshops connect communities stratified by class, race and age and expand upon existing community networks and resources, while rendering models of possibility for other post-industrial cities.
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It’s Baaack! Vectorial Elevation @ Winter Olympics by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Zulma — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:09:14 +0000

In Vancouver are these awesome spot lights that ANYONE (with internet access and a laptop aka on this side of the digital divide) CAN CONTROL and move. Click here to participate in this virtually immersive experience.
have fun,
zee

(from the page)
Vectorial Elevation is an interactive artwork that allows participants to transform the sky over Vancouver, Canada. Using a three-dimensional interface, this web site lets you design huge light sculptures by directing 20 robotic searchlights located around English Bay. A web page is made for each participant with photos of their design from four cameras located around the city.

check out the You Tube Video

from the skinny blog: http://heavyworld.com/theskinny/?p=514
People interested in visiting Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Games will have an added incentive to explore the city during the two weeks of athletic competition. In celebration of the Olympic games, the city of Vancouver will welcome Vectorial Elevation, a large-scale interactive light installation created by Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The work, which has been previously staged in Spain, Ireland, France and Mexico, features twenty 10,000-watt searchlights which move in concert to create a silent, shifting canopy of light. Vectorial Elevation is one of the world’s largest interactive artworks.

from Mark Tribe @ Brown: https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Rafael+Lozano-Hemmer

Technologies: 18 robotic 7kW xenon searchlights, 4 webcams, TCP/IP to DMX converter, Java 3D interface, GPS tracker, linux web and e-mail servers.

Keywords: public, spectacle, telepresence

Click here to check out The Skinny Blog where they have pictures of the other awesome Rafael Lozano Hemmer installations all around the world.

http://heavyworld.com/theskinny/?p=514K

@ the Beach

Zulma — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:15:04 +0000

Hale’iwa, Hawaii Sign, originally uploaded by matthewnielsen.

Just Seeds Art Show in DC

Zulma — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:46:52 +0000

JustSeeds: Paper Politics for a New Decade

Exhibition Dates: January 8 – January 30
First Friday Reception: Friday, January 8, 2010, 6-9PM

Live music by experimental trio Vodka and Donuts!
Food and refreshments will be served
$5 suggested donation

The JustSeeds Artists? Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to collaborate, sell their work online in a central location and support social movements. Utilizing print and poster making techniques to address a variety of social and environmental justice issues, collective mates work together over many miles to create, resist, and bring meaningful artwork to the masses for affordable prices. These artists believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society. Featuring works by: Santiago Armengod, Jesus Barraza, Graham Boyle, Melanie Cervantes, DC51 Collective, Alec Icky Dunn, Thea Gahr, Sabeth Jackson, Nicolas Lampert, Josh Mac Phee, Colin Matthes, Cesar Maxit, Dylan Miner, Roger Peet, Jesse Purcell, Favianna Rodriguez, Erik Ruin, Beth Schaible, Chris Stain, Meredith Stern, SWOON, Mary Tremonte, Kristine Virsis, Pete Yahnke, and Bec Young.

La Otra Campa?a and the EZLN CALL for Submissions

Zulma — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:46:37 +0000

New Time limit CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

“La Otra Campaña” and the EZLN is launching a graphic campaign under the motto “Primero Nuestros Presos”(Our Prisoners First). We are inviting everyone to participate in this campaign.
The designs will be used for stickers, posters, and stencils.

-Stickers: 10 x 14 cm or 20 x 28 cm, full color, minimum resolution 300
ppp, formats .png, .jpg, .tiff.

-Posters: We will only print 2 designs, in which we will decide collectively, size 41 x 68 cm, in 2 colors, the designs that wont be printed as posters will be printed for fliers.

-Stencils: Send your image and we will publish all designs in high resolution in the La Otra grafica website (http://laotragrafika.vientos.info) to be reproduced as many times possible.

Send all designs to: laotra.grafica@gmail.com.

New time limit Wednesday the 27th of January

-Red de Medios Libres abajo y a la izquierda
-Campaña Primero Nuestros Presos

(Full Version in Spanish)

Extendemos la fecha de entrega de la CONVOCATORIA GR?FIKA

En el contexto por la libertad de los presos políticos de México y el
mundo, el EZLN junto con la Otra Campaña lanzan una iniciativa llamada
¿ Campaña Primero Nuestros Presos?, a la cual se suman colectivos,
organizaciones, pueblos e individuos con el fin de impulsar y construir
diversos esfuerzos para continuar con la lucha y conseguir la liberación
de los Presos políticos de la Otra Campaña.

Entendiendo que una de las tareas principales es la información y
difusión, hacemos un llamado a los colectivos, organizaciones e
individuos para que envíen su gráfica combativa con el tema ?libertad a
los Presos políticos?, ya sea de todos en su conjunto o de algún caso en
particular. Los diseños serán utilizados para crear una campaña de
difusión visual de carácter nacional con pegatas, carteles y esténciles.

Te invitamos a que nos envíes tu gráfica, si es para pegata que sea de 10
x 14 cm o su múltiplo, en todos los colores posibles, resolución media 300
ppp (puntos por pulgada), ya sea en formato .png, .jpg, .tiff.

Si es para cartel sélo imprimiremos dos diseños, los cuales
seleccionaremos de manera colectiva, la medida es de 41 x 68 a dos tintas,
mismos que también utilizaremos para realizar volantes.

Si es para esténcil manda tu imagen, la publicaremos en el sitio de la
otra gráfica (http://laotragrafika.vientos.info). La totalidad de las
imágenes que recibamos serán publicadas en el mismo sitio para que sean
reproducidas cuantas veces sea posible. La dirección electrónica a la que
puedes enviar tu imagen es laotra.grafica@gmail.com.

Puedes consultar la lista de Nuestros Presos en:

http://es.wordpress.com/tag/estos-son-Nuestros-Presos/

Esta convocatoria inicia desde el momento de su publicación hasta el
miércoles 27 de enero.

-Red de Medios Libres abajo y a la izquierda
-Campaña Primero Nuestros Presos

thanks justseeds.org collective

space invader 3

Zulma — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:12:44 +0000

space invader 3, originally uploaded by Alisson Gothz.

by Leigh Bowery

Before Lady Gaga there was Leigh Bowery

Zulma — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:12:09 +0000

hair, originally uploaded by Alisson Gothz.

Maybe Gaga’s inspiration

Zulma — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:12:02 +0000

pin up, originally uploaded by Alisson Gothz.

Leigh Bowery

Zulma — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:11:33 +0000

Leigh Bowery, originally uploaded by Peglessness.

Leigh Bowery (26 March 1961 – 31 December 1994) was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, actor, pop star, model and fashion designer, based in London. Bowery is considered one of the more influential figures in the 1980s and 1990s London and New York art and fashion circles influencing a generation of artists and designers. His influence reached through the fashion, club and art worlds to impact, amongst others, Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Boy George, Antony and the Johnsons, John Galliano, the Scissor Sisters, David LaChapelle, Lady Bunny plus numerous Nu-Rave bands and nightclubs in London and New York which arguably perpetuated his avant garde ideas.

Flamenco Dancer in Triana

Zulma — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:19:26 +0000

Flamenco Dancer in Triana, originally uploaded by vicar tutu.

from my friend Vicky in Sevilla

Sri Lankan general committed horrible atrocities in the name of War

Zulma — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:43:28 +0000

Human Rights Watch research determined that the Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and ?disappearances? that are a national crisis. Human Rights Watch urged the government to reveal the whereabouts of the ?disappeared,? immediately end the practice, and hold the perpetrators accountable.

Similar to Juarez, Sri Lanka is currently suffering from a stream of Dissapearances. Please write your govt. rep’s and try to get their attention on this. Also, don’t buy anything from Walmart that says Sri Lanka. Show the govt. you’ll spend your dollars in a moral way.

on the web is this remark real?

Zulma — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:01:47 +0000

Kirsten Rae Simonsen, "You Seem Like A Real Unique And Interesting Person", originally uploaded by cbiggs.

image by Kirsten Rae Simonsen,

I hope so. lol

UNDERGROUND FILM ARTIST SHARES AT THE MOMA

Zulma — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:36:28 +0000

The Museum of Modern Art in NYC:? An Evening with Jim Finn

Monday, February 1, 2010, 7:00 p.m.? Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
A brilliant and wickedly satirical mash-up of documentary, fictionalized restaging, and agitprop, Jim Finn?s The Juche Idea (2008) takes as its inspiration and its target the film theories and principles of self-reliance espoused by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. Absolutist in the extreme, the Dear Leader?s moviemaking edicts were designed to uphold the ?monolithic ideology of the Party.? Finn subjects them to withering parody through genre-defying experimental conceits, incorporating scenes from North Korean melodramas and propaganda films dating back to the 1950s, allusions to the 1978 kidnapping of the late South Korean filmmaker Shin Sang-ok, and absurdist reenactments of English-language lessons from official textbooks. Robert Koehler in Variety writes, ?The evidence that current film-making is brimming with original, standard-breaking creations has to include the work of Jim Finn?. To say that [his] films open up new possibilities for satire, ideas, and language isn?t an overstatement.? Finn also presents his recent short films, Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell (2009) and selections from la loteria (2004?05).

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/8609

For more info about jim finn’s movies:? http://jimfinn.org/index.html

The Yes Men Strike again

Zulma — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:06:04 +0000

The Ugandan delegation to the COP-15 climate talks has been the first to react to Canada’s announcement of ambitious new emissions-reduction targets and vigorous climate-debt reparations to African nations. “This is a day that will define our century,” said Margaret Matembe, MP and head of the Climate Committee of Uganda, an environmental caucus in the Ugandan parliament. “Today, we no longer have to wait for a COP20 or COP100 before the voices of our children are heard.” Visit the http://en.cop-15.org/

The Yes Men in Copenhagen = a corporation and/or government is going to get humiliated for good reason. This time it’s Canada.

More here: http://theyesmen.org/canada

New Media helps Graff Artist

Zulma — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:11:30 +0000

eyewriter.org

By chris on tempt1

“That was the first time i’ve drawn anything since 2003! It feels like taking a breath after being held underwater for 5 minutes.” –Tony Quan aka Tempt One

eyewriter.org is live!!

Tony Quan, aka Tempt1, is a legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist. He was diagnosed with ALS in 2003, a disease which has left him almost completely physically paralyzed… except for his eyes. Earlier this year, members of FAT, OpenFrameworks, G.R.L., The Ebeling Group and Tempt1, teamed up to create a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that will allow ALS patients to draw using just their eyes. Check out the project along with source code, free software, diy instructables and eyetags by Tempt1 at eyewriter.org.

The EyeWriter core development team consists of Tony Quan, Evan Roth, Chris Sugrue, Zach Lieberman, Theo Watson and James Powderly.

With support from: The Ebeling Group, the Not Impossible Foundation and Parsons Communication Design & Technology.

Many thanks to: Keith Pasko, LM4K, Eleanor Dunk, Jamie Wilkinson, and Greg Leuch.

Eyebeam Fellowships 2010

Zulma — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:34:32 +0000

Eyebeam Fellowships 2010

Category: Awards, Grants, Fellowships [View all]
Posted by: Eyebeam
Deadline: 12/11/09

Eyebeam, the leading nonprofit art and technology center in the US, is accepting applications from artists, hackers, engineers, designers, curators, and creative technologists to participate in their fellowship program. The ideal fellow has experience working with and making innovative technological art or creative technology projects. Fellows will engage in their own independent projects, projects initiated by or conceived collaboratively with Eyebeam’s staff, fellows, and residents.

The upcoming 11-month cycle will run from 3/1/2010 to 1/31/2011. Selected Fellows will be expected to work at least four days per week at Eyebeam’s location in New York, and to contribute to the Eyebeam community as mentors to residents and youth and as principals in research initiatives, programs, and education. Fellows receive a $30,000 stipend.

Deadline: December 11, 2009

Visit http://eyebeam.org/get-involved-fellowships/calls/open-call-eyebeam-fellowships-2010 for information.

from the CAA website of course

She is an Astronomer

Zulma — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:47:29 +0000

December 3, 10:00am – 11:30am
Windward Campus, Paliku Theatre

Join ?a ?panel ?of ?female ?astronomers ?as ?they ?discuss their ?research ?at ?the ?UH? Institute ?for ?Astronomy. Dr. Beth Biller, Dr. Elena Moise and Dr. Lisa Kewley each speak about their work, followed by ?a ?question-and?-answer? session? with the audience. ??This ?FREE ?symposium ?targets ?middle? and ?high ?school? girls,?but?welcomes ?all? students? and? teachers.? Teachers can contact nancyali@hawaii.edu or call 236-9169 for more information and to reserve seats.

Ticket Information
FREE

Event Sponsor
Center for Aerospace Education, Windward Campus

More Information
236-9169, nancyali@hawaii.edu, http://aerospace.wcc.hawaii.edu/imaginarium.html

The McCoy’s

Zulma — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:18:42 +0000

IMG_4052.JPG, originally uploaded by mccoyspace.

from networked performance

Zulma — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:03:50 +0000

The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft

By jo on writings

“Abstract: This article examines the racialization of informational labor in machinima about Chinese player workers in the massively multiplayer online role playing game World of Warcraft. Such fan-produced video content extends the representational space of the game and produces overtly racist narrative space to attach to a narrative that, while carefully avoiding explicit references to racism or racial conflict in our world, is premised upon a racial war in an imaginary world — the World of Azeroth. This profiling activity is part of a larger biometric turn initiated by digital culture’s informationalization of the body and illustrates the problematics of informationalized capitalism. If late capitalism is characterized by the requirement for subjects to be possessive individuals, to make claims to citizenship based on ownership of property, then player workers are unnatural subjects in that they are unable to obtain avatarial self-possession. The painful paradox of this dynamic lies in the ways that it mirrors the dispossession of information workers in the Fourth Worlds engendered by ongoing processes of globalization. As long as Asian “farmers” are figured as unwanted guest workers within the culture of MMOs, user-produced extensions of MMO-space like machinima will most likely continue to depict Asian culture as threatening to the beauty and desirability of shared virtual space in the World of Warcraft.” Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft, Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Published in Critical Studies in Media Communication. [via]

Screen printing workshop at Galeria de la Raza

Zulma — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:27:18 +0000

Screen printing workshop at Galeria de la Raza from Jesus Barraza on Vimeo.

from ArtThreat: The acoustic art of politics

Zulma — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:48:20 +0000

The acoustic art of politics: Audioscaping the war on the poor

By Michael Lithgow on ultra-red

From the audio labs of Ultra-Red comes the fourth and final volume in their Sounds of the War on the Poor series. Beginning in 2008, activists and artists were invited to create one-minute sound responses to the question: What is the sound of the war on the poor? The contributions include micro-documentaries, soundscapes, music interventions, interviews … all available for free download.

Ultra-red is an interesting crew. Positioning themselves as an artist collective who engage in the “fragile dynamic between audio art and political mobilizing”, ultra-red is pushing the boundaries between the aesthetic and the political in the realm of sound art.

Not content with making and distributing recordings with political implications, ultra-red also engages in political intervention in the course of their collaborative work. Some of their previous work includes: Soundtrax, their first public intervention created in collaboration with the Los Angeles clean needle exchange, Clean Needles Now; Secondnature: an investigation into queer public sex in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park; Survey the Future: reflections on the struggle of migrants in the context of, respectively, global capital and labor – to name just a few.

Sounds of the War on the Poor are part of their public record archives, which also includes series on AIDS, questions of global migration, and public housing. All recordings are available for free download.