Por la ruta del sexo

Do You Hate Me? by Lilliam Nieves Por Carlos Antonio Otero, Especial para ESCENARIO 05 de febrero de 2010 04:00 am Antes de cruzar el zaguán en el número 301 de la calle Cruz en el Viejo San Juan, hay que dejar el recato en la acera. De lo contrario, resultará un ejercicio fútil el recorrido por la sala de exposiciones de Obra Galería, donde unos 37 artistas presentan hasta la próxima semana la muestra “Sex...

Quién dijo que el “sex sells”

Cuarenta artistas lo afirman en la muestra que abre hoy, a la 1:00 p.m. Por Tatiana Pérez Rivera / tperez@elnuevodia.com La ternura, el coraje, la belleza, la tristeza y la fealdad dijeron presente. El espectro de reacciones que provocan las relaciones interpersonales se apoderó de los vídeos, las fotos, las esculturas y las piezas en papel que componen la muestra “Sex sells” la cual abre al público hoy...

Grande la chiquita

El centro curatorial LA 15 cerró el 2009 con una ambiciosa propuesta donde logró reunir a poco más de 50 artistas en la muestra Chiquitolina, con trabajos de pequeño formato en diversos medios. Esto resultó en una pequeña muestra nacional de lo que ocurre en el arte contemporáneo en Puerto Rico, con expresiones que incluyeron pintura, dibujos, objetos, fotografía y vídeo, entre otros. El tema del...

Winter Presentation 2010

One Day I Will Let You Taste My Scars from Arnaldo Roman The consumption of object is what defines our other-self, making us, as consumers to create a simulated character that ultimately becomes our own canned reality. In a more pessimistic sense we becomes the object and the object becomes part of our functional roles. This premise may be seen, as a principle of fetishism as the object on itself becomes part of...

Puerto Rico: Expanding Art Scene Sparks New Life into Santurce

Video Still: Photo by C.Acevedo The urban area of Santurce is fast evolving again into the center of the contemporary art scene in Puerto Rico, prefering the shabby streets of the urban core of this town. Just when the local art institutions are crumbling from lack of funding, private initiatives in Santurce emerge as the only alternative for the arts. Right now, the area is buzzing with opportunities, cheap rents...

Fall Presentation 09

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Project Plan: 2009-2010

Art studio proyect: Working title: Register { do; switch; } while (–sent (to,from,count); replace.(remix) Detailed description: Privacy, security and connectivity are issues that always comes to mind when we address or put in practice a social relation being on the personal level or on a virtual environment. As consumer of information we are constantly encouraged to participate in those rituals of associative...

Spring Presentation 09

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Spring Presentation 09

Process: Everything change, the actual procedures turn to ideas that intrinsically have another sense with new subroutines. By researching and looking back at what I always given for granted I discovered new and old scattered images of many dialects and discourses that may better describe or in better words, better appropriate terms important to my work. Incorporating factual discourses like codes, science...

Diatribe of Saint Vitus with a theme song far far away

Diatribe of Saint Vitus with a theme song far far away from Arnaldo Roman on Vimeo. This is a re-mediation on Theme Song by Vito Acconci. As i was visualizing it it was not a moment on intimacy or a pretension to be close to someone like the original ‘73 Acconci’s video. Its a re-digestion of another scenario were the character unveils a dysfunctional conversation with whoever want to take a moment out of a...

Winter Presentation 09

Media: Video-Art Net-Art Photography Design performance Painting. Process: At this point there is no  main media for me to choose and work, but I am in the process of editing 4 new videos and some ambient sounds to incorporate to these works. I will be experimenting with Industrial-Electro-Ambient sound landscapes and learning to use Dragon Skin and prosthetics. Some of my work will still be presented on the...

A note on La Pobreza de la Cultura

On December 25, Carlos Antonio Otero Aponte, a reporter and blogger from Puerto Rico posted a blog entry as a reaction to an article of mine in Trance Liquido. On his post he is discussing how country-relative culture, but specifically our own, is becoming more and more endangered by our ever growing desire to capitalize everything. Well, not as superfluous as I am putting this up but in a more complex scheme. In my...

La pobreza de la cultura

Publicado por Carlos Antonio Otero Aponte  Website: http://www.elnaufragiodelaspalabras.com Fecha: 12/25/2008 04:51:00 AM Luego de desempolvar el libro de Marta Traba acerca del arte moderno en Puerto Rico, han retornado a mis manos otros textos que había olvidado durante algún tiempo. Esta vez la visita es al uruguayo Mario Benedetti y su libro ¨Subdesarrollo y letras de osadía¨ (1987), una compilación de...

The Storehouse Group en Scope Miami ‘08

The Storehouse Group, galería nómada con base en Puerto Rico, fue invitada por segunda vez a  participar en Scope Art Fair, en su séptima edición en la ciudad de Miami.  Scope Miami ’08 presentará 88 galerías provenientes de 22 países.  Durante la semana del 3 al 7 de diciembre también se presenta su homóloga, la célebre feria Art Basel Miami en su  séptima  edición.  En estos momentos, The...

Fall Presentation 08

Method: At this point I am exploring different medias like Video-Art, Net-Art, Photography, Design and Painting. The main concept behind all these kind of works or what will consequently tied them together will be that of consuming culture in Puerto Rico and the influence the global market have in our culture. Most of my work will be presented on the internet as video art and net art relying on coding as the vehicle...

Group Effort with Geoff Cox

Faculty: Geoff Cox Geoff Cox has a research interest in ’software art’. Geoff co-curated the touring exhibition ‘Generator’ in collaboration with Spacex Gallery, and ‘Vivaria.net’ that asks the question ‘why look at artificial animals?’. He co-organised (with Joasia Krysa) two conferences: ‘globalica: artistic and conceptual tensions in the new world...

Reading Diary: Group Effort

With the introduction of computer as a labor process the work has radically transform. What was driven by the labor workforce in terms of ability and exclusively communal labor is now more intensively automatized and machine related. Labor is no more conditioned by workload and force standards but how the machine should do the tasks. The machine as a generator of economy and subsequently as a producer of goods that...

Collections, Obsessions, and the Display of the Other.

Faculty: Mary Ting Within Mary Ting’s varied art practice of installation, drawing, photography and video, the prevailing emphasis is the use of the fragment within a nonlinear narrative.  Her work inhabits the realm of temporality, private obsessions and the sensual.  Layered with stories, glimpses of memories, metaphors, her animals, figures, limbs, and cropped forms are both personal and allegorical.  Mary...

Dynamic Neuro-Facial Dis-Association

Title: Dynamic Neuro-Facial Dis-Association Media: Video Time: 1 minute Description: The internet is a complex media, everything in it turn into tangible realities that make it possible to turn crime and sabotage into identities dis-associations. The fake is more real than real and so is the result of this combination. This video is a collaboration between Lilliam Nieves and D. Arnaldo Roman for the Mary...

Project Plan: Summer Residency 2008

1. Art studio proyect: Working title: Trans-gender(rational) modification of the objectualized image. Detailed description: An initial synthesis of what i (the objectualized-gendered subject) am doing at this very moment would be the tergiversation of particular images or messages from different medias into contrary object of perception. Passive elements of the image will be transferred to a different context or...