- Art Studio Ewa Beach, Hawaii
- Chicana Feliz translated from Spanish means a “Happy Mexican American Woman.”
What is a Chicana Feliz? A blogger born and raised in California? A video producer that specializes in community media? A Video artist who works with interactive art?
This blog does not intend to define or explain anything to you. It is up to you to find ways to critically think about what art makes you feel and think whether you are a Chicana or not.
This Chicana posts information that might veer you towards a positive and fulfilled lifestyle by way of learning about spaces that show New Media Art.
New Media Art is a genre of Contemporary Art that incorporates, Video Art, Electronic Art, Electronics, Internet Art, Netroots, Experimental Music, Hacker Culture and Interventionist Performance Art. Please see wikipedia for more information on any of the aforementioned terms.
websites to follow New Media Art are’
iEAR Integrated Electronic Arts at Rensselaer
EMPAC (I used to work here)
Rhizome
Upgrade
Creative Time
my bio:
Aguiar is an emerging new media artist, for over eight years an IT Manager, for over twelve years an Internet Producer, and over seven years a video/filmmaker. Aguiar has employed various arts practices, disciplines, and technologies to investigate issues critical to the advancement of our culture. She is interested in interdisciplinary studies such as the Fine and computer based Arts, Engineering and the Sciences.
Her practice centers around many topics, but continues to explore the aesthetics of border politics in New Media Art. Aguiar’s work is aligned with a history of border art that include Guillermo Gomez Pena’s views of cultural theory, Coco Fusco’s interventions in live art and film, and Yolanda Lopez’ self-portraiture.
Her work also deals with the ways in which race and cultural identity intersect with a general notion of Chican@ identity.
A pattern that emerges in her work is feminism and border culture. She tends to use colorful and vibrant images as a form of self-expression. Her graduate Art School program exposed her to work with innovators and pioneers of experimental media such as Pauline Oliveros and Johannes Goebel, Director of EMPAC. RPI offered many courses in the production of music which highly influence her work, however, she chooses to continue working within the video art avant-garde context informed by many artists but in particular such artists as Nao Bustamante and Guillermo Gomez-Pena.