Re: [-empyre-] Farewell Ricardo, Lana, Mariam and Angel for "Sites in Translation"

["ricardo miranda zuniga" <ricardo@ambriente.com>]

Hi Christina,
Thanks for this.  I had hoped that I'd be able to compose a nice sucinct
statement that also presented an overview of some of the discussion. 
Although interesting points were made, I don't feel as we arrived at
anything, but that may very well be the nature of the content.  It will
make itself apparent through production - which i was getting at with my
last post.
I wish that we had a livelier discussion, but considering everything
that has happened, the entire discussion could have just not happened at
all, so I'm glad that some discussion did occur and I feel like there
were high point.  And there's was so much more that didn't make it in to
the posts...
Thank you for the invitation and yes, I'll look forward to seeing you
next time your through NYC.  I will be in San Diego Oct. 22-24 for
presentations and discussion for Tijuana Calling.  Perhaps you can come
down.
ricardo

> dear -empyreans-
> 
> Thanks to artists Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, Mariam Ghani, Lana Lin, H.  
> Lan Thao Lam, and Angel Nevarez
> for joining us on -empyre- this month for the theme "Sites in  
> Translation."
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> In 2004, five artists and collaborative groups were commissioned to  
> make web-based projects for the latest edition of inSite, the  
> binational exhibition of site-specific work staged every few years  
> along the San
> Diego/Tijuana border.  "Tijuana Calling" is online at:
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> <http://www.insite05.org/auxillary/tjcalling2.htm>
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> 
> Thanks again to everyone for engaging this difficult set of topics,  
> as the artists themselves asked at the beginning of the month:
> 
> Is the net a vast ?no-man?s-land,? a border-free zone contiguous to  
> every place but specific to none? Or does the net re-enact the  
> politics of physical geography, with its own border policies and  
> politics of exclusion, recognition and reciprocity? Is it possible  
> for new media artists to activate the net for the staging of projects  
> responsible and
> responsive to communities that fall between legitimized power  
> sectors, and if so how?
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> PS
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> details on our guests:
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> ------------------------------------------------>Ricardo Miranda  
> Zuniga grew up between Nicaragua, and San Francisco. A
> bicultural upbringing tied to a multidisciplinary education has led  
> to work that attempts to cultivate interaction with the viewer and  
> may include performance, sculpture, video and audio, the Internet or  
> a combination of all. The principle behind the work is communication  
> as a creative process. <http://www.ambriente.com/>
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> ---------------------------------------------->Mariam Ghani is a  
> Brooklyn-based artist whose work in video, installation, new media,  
> text and public dialogue performance investigates how history is  
> constructed and reconstructed as narrative in the present. Her work  
> has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 1999, and she  
> has been making web-based projects since 2003. <http://www.kabul- 
> reconstructions.net/mariam>
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> ----------------------------------------------->Lana Lin is a New  
> York-based media artist whose practice interprets
> cultural histories and the processes of identification. Her work has  
> been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American  
> Art, New York, China Taipei Film Archive, Taiwan, and the Festival de
> Femmes, Creteil, France.
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> ------------------------------------------------->H. Lan Thao Lam is  
> a bilingual artist/writer who has lived in Vietnam,
> Malaysia, Canada and the US. Lam's work probes the inter- 
> relationships between place and history, architecture and philosophy.  
> Lam is the recipient of the Canadian Council for the Arts Media  
> Grant, H.L. Rous Sculpture Award, and James Robertson Environmental  
> Design Award.
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> ------------------------------------------------>Angel Nevarez was  
> born in Mexico City, 1970, and raised in the United States. Nevarez  
> studied biology at the University of California, San Diego and in  
> 2001-2002 was a studio fellow of the Whitney Museum Independent Study  
> Program. He is co-founder of the artist collaborative  
> neuroTransmitter, whose work fuses transmission and conceptual art.  
> <http://www.neurotransmitter.fm/>
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ricardo miranda zuñiga
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