Cultivating Conduits: Virtual Attempts to Make a Real Connection
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- Mind the Gap
Presentation Title:
- Cultivating Conduits: Virtual Attempts to Make a Real Connection
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Panel: Mind the Gap
El Paso, Texas/Juarez, Mexico is one of the largest bi-national urban environments in the world. The cities of El Paso and Juarez have become increasingly isolated from one another since January of 2008, when drug violence in Mexico began to climb to unprecedented levels. The Rubin Center has been a site for the development of a series of cross-border projects that unite residents on both sides of the border using both technological and tactile experiences, including Tania Candiani’s Battleground (2009), Ivan Abreu’s Cross Coordinates (2010), Arcangel Constantini’s contra <~> flujo (2010), and a year-long, in-process project with LA based artists Mario Ybarra and Karla Diaz of Slanguage, that connects youth on both sides of the border using urban tactics and virtual communities (on exhibition beginning May 2012).