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This volume of ASPECT features a spectrum of time-based works by nine new media artists hailing from South or Central America. "What about an issue on Mexico?" came the suggestion from a frequent contributor. We realized we had never published a work from South or Latin America. At ASPECT we continuously push ourselves to expand the breadth of our publication, and Arte de las Américas became our way to begin to represent a vibrant and important region of artists. New Media Art crosses linguistic, cultural, and geographic boundaries, and our goal is to represent the genre in all its forms and sources.
| Catalog Number: MC-870 |
Type: Shorts Compilation |
Genre: New Media |
| Copyright: 2008 |
Length: 97 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: 0-98115208-0-4 |
UPC: 796873073882 |
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Films In Compilation
In Search of Giant Axolote directed by
Daniel Mendoza
Alafita
Mexico,
New Media,
2007,
00:10:11
In Search of the Giant Axolote is a critical reflection on contemporary Mexican culture. In a country seemingly shipwrecked by the storms of crisis and despotism, I decided to use the axolote as a metaphor for the Mexican. In Aztec mythology this amphibian indigenous to central Mexico is the aquatic manifestation of the god Xolotl, the monstrous twin brother of Quetzalcoatl. Many painters, travelers, writers and philosophers have studied the appearance, symbolism and biology of this uniquely Mexican being.
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Un chant d'amour directed by
Silvia
Gruner
Mexico,
Art / Artist,
2007,
00:00:00
Audio commentary by Jesse Lerner
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Reflection directed by
Raquel
Kogan
Mexico,
Art / Artist,
2006,
00:00:00
Audio commentary by Marcus Vincius Fainer Bastos
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Para verte mejor directed by
Jessica
Lagunas
Nicaragua,
Art / Artist,
2003,
00:00:00
Audio commentary by Francisco Nájera
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The Hand directed by
David
Lamelas
Mexico,
Art / Artist,
1976,
00:00:00
Audio commentary by Ute Meta Bauer
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Intercities Saõ Paulo/Pittsburgh directed by
Artur
Matuck
USA,
New Media,
1988,
00:12:20
Intercities São Paulo/Pittsburgh, was the outcome of a series of tele-communication events connecting a group of Brazilian art researchers in São Paulo with American colleagues in Pittsburgh. The ‘Instituto de Pesquisa em Arte e Tecnologia’ (IPAT), an institute for research in art and technology supported by the Museum of Image and Sound in Sao Paulo, and the Digital Arts Exchange (DAX) group, affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, conducted during 1987 several private experimental links through telephone lines connecting slow-scan television transceivers. For the Intercities event, which happened in January 25th, 1988 (the 434th anniversary of the city of Sao Paulo) the two teams worked in close collaboration to find new modalities for informational interchange through the medium of slow-scan television. The event consisted of lectures exchanged and interactive pieces created by artists. The video documentary represents the event as recorded at the Museum in Sao Paulo. The actions in Pittsburgh are represented only by slow scan images transmitted to the Sao Paulo terminal.
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Super Atari Poetry - VCS Atari 2600 directed by
Yucef
Merhi
Mexico,
New Media,
2005,
00:08:00
Super Atari Poetry is a multiplayer game installation consisting of 3 Atari 2600 consoles,joysticks, self-manufactured cartridges, and TV monitors. Each cartridge holds a group of verses that are constantly changing colors which can be manipulated using a joystick. The reading of the 3 verses printed on the screens produces a coherent poem that's always changing its meaning and chromatic structure. By playing and changing the content, participants can make about 1000 different poems. This installation unifies art, literature, technology, and computer/game history, at the same time it facilitates the establishment of social networks based on the experience of poetry.
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Ring directed by
Sebastián
Díaz Morales
Mexico,
New Media,
2007,
00:12:00
Ring (The Means of Illusion) (2006/2007) begins through the eyes of the artist. Its cinematic thread meanders through a disjunctive chain of images, delimiting a metaphorical shift between two states of consciousness, that of the real as symbolized by the neutral emptiness of the desert, and of a mediated reality as represented by the violent spectacle of various boxing matches. The former contains no thought, no contamination of human interaction, whereas the latter is the fictitious representation of life, a treacherous simulacrum, as manipulated images that relentlessly assault our perception of reality. The fights and clamoring crowds are collaged together as a singular event, feigning a continuity that belies its constructed videomontage.
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Numeros directed by
Juan Fernando
Ospina
Mexico,
New Media,
2005,
00:06:22
Juan Fernando plays a very obsessive ethnographic game with his city, composing songs, poems, lists and equations with the color of facades, signs, marks on the urban floor, t-shirts, taxis, buses, everything that is part of Medellin’s popular culture. In numbers he is counting from 1 to 100 and vice versa.
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2009-02-24 Media Reviews Online
By Cindy Badilla-Melendez, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
Arte de las Americas is volume 11 of Aspect Magazine, a biannual DVD publication. Aspect Magazine highlights artists working in experimental media.
Arte de las Americas features nine works of different media artists from Latin America. Each entry is between 6 and 19 minutes long. The audio commentaries are very valuable. Latin America has an impressive history in the production of remarkable films. This is an interesting compilation of shorts that can help to show what kind of work is being done in other countries besides Europe and the United States.
In Search Of the Giant Axolote by Daniel Mendoza (2007). This is not a natural history documentary, but rather explores the different meanings of this small reptile, found in Mexico and the representation of it within the Mexican culture.
Un Chant d'Amour by Silvia Gruner (2004). Video installation of a reinterpretation of Jean Genet's movie of the same title. Gruner re-creates some of the most fundamental scenes of this short film.
Reflection by Raquel Kogan (2006-07). An interactive installation presenting a perception of reality.
Para Verte Mejor by Jessica Lagunas (2003-2006). This work expresses women’s physical conditioning and the obsession with their body image imposed by their society in Guatemala.
The Hand by David Lamelas (1976). A mix of newscast and talk show clips representing various levels of reality and fiction.
Intercities Performance by Arthur Matuck (1988). An interactive telecommunication event connecting a group of Brazilian art researchers in São Palo with American colleagues in Pittsburg.
Super Atari Poetry by Yucef Merhi (2005). Multi-user installation that combines electronic poetry and hyper-text with computer games, considered playable media. It fuses art, literature, and technology and facilitates social networks.
Ring by Sebastian Diaz Morales (2006-07). A multi-channel video installation representing two states of consciousness, the real and the mediated reality.
Numeros by Fernando Ospina (2005). A live multi-media performance following the lyrics of his songs, Fernando finds places that contain the same numbers, between 1 and 100, and takes photographs of them. He later aligns them in a way that can be presented as tales via his musical performances.
The picture and sound quality are good. Some shorts are in Spanish with English subtitles, the audio commentaries are in English. It would be most suitable for film studies, communication & journalism courses. |
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