NEW MEDIA IN MEXICO CITY

2006.04.05 [FRAY] New Media in Mexico City panel discussion

New Media in Mexico City, a panel discussion with Mexico City (Mexico City) based curators and organizers Eusebio Bañuelos (Video artist and Moving Image curator at The CENTRO MULTIMEDIA) and Arcángel Constantini (Net Art, Web Art and New Media curator, organizer and artist). Join us to hear from and engage in conversation with hese accomplished and active young curators and learn about the dynamic and very different ways in which New Media manifests in Mexico City!

New Media in Mexico City
WEDS 2006.04.05 @ 4:30 PM
[FRAY] FVNM SAIC
112 S Michigan room 1306
CHI IL .US
Free

New Media in Mexico City, a panel discussion with Mexico City (Mexico City) based curators and organizers:

Eusebio Bañuelos and Arcángel Constantini

Join us to hear from and engage in conversation with these accomplished and active young curators and learn about the dynamic and very different ways in which New Media manifests in Mexico City!

Eusebio Bañuelos is the Moving Image and Video curator at The CENTRO MULTIMEDIA (the Multimedia Center) in Mexico City. The CENTRO MULTIMEDIA is a major hub of New Media arts in Mexico City if not the premier venue and institution for New Media art.

Arcángel Constantini curates Net Art, Web Art and New Media projects and is the director of the encuentros efimeros (ephemeral encounter) project. Constantini also curates the inmerso cyberlounge museo tamayo (cyberlounge museum tamayo) space for New Media, Net Art and Sound projects. As an artist, Constantini is a part of the internally recognized New Media collectives and collaboratives hell.com, no-such.com and khora.org.

These artists, organizers and curators and 6 of their peers from Mexico City are here in Chicago to organize, participate and perform in (A) MEXICAN r4WB1t5 macro.Fest. This r4WB1t5 macro.Fest runs for 4 days from THURSDAY 2006.04.06 until SUNDAY 2006.04.09 in 4 spaces. The CHI-TOWN ARENA (a Mexican wrestling venue in Pilsen), EN3MY (Chicago's most recent art space dedicated to sound and art in Wicker Park), BUSKER (audio/visual projects and new media programming in East Village) and POLVO (Pilsen's alternative art space) will all host individual micro.Fests on each day of the expanded macro.Fest. These free and open events are organized and curated by Eusebio Bañuelos, Arcángel Constantini, David Somellera, Rogelio Sosa and Mario de Vega from Mexico City and facilitated in Chicago by Amanda Gutierrez, jon.satrom and jonCates.

ABOUT [FRAY]

[FRAY] is aseries of interwoven events organized by the Film, Video and New Media department (FVNM) at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). [FRAY] is focussed on time, screen and code based experimental New Media art. [FRAY] consists of the following interrelated aspects: a conference, discussions, screenings and clusters of student initiated projects running during the Spring 2006 semester.