[spectre] (fwd) 10th aluCine / Toronto Latin Media Festival

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Fernando Llanos <fllanos at fllanos.com>
Subject: 10th aluCine / Toronto Latin Media Festival
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:48:24 -0500


10th aluCine
Toronto Latin Media Festival
Nov. 12-28, 2009

http://www.alucinefestival.com/

Contemporary Mexican Art in AluCine 2009:

Fernando LLANOS / Punto suspensivoŠ (sculpture video, talk and screnning)
Tania AEDO, Memory, New Media in Mexico (talk and screening)
Laura BARRON, Nostalgia (video installation)

November, Thursday 12th 2009, 7:30pm
Fernando Llanos y Laura Barron: Installations (part of group show)
Lennox Contemporary
12 Ossington Ave.
Toronto, ON M6J 2Y7
(Closing, November, Saturday 28th 2009)

November Friday 13th, 7:00pm.
Fernando Llanos: "Videoman" talk and screening
Lennox Contemporary

November Friday 21th 2009, 9:00pm
Tania Aedo: "Memory, New Media in Mexico" (Talk 
and screening. Complete program bellow. 
Co-presented by Images Festival)
CineCycle
129 Spadina Ave.
(In the alley south of Spadina Ave & Richmond St.)
Toronto, ON

This year aluCine's Installations bring together 
Canadians and Latin-American artists. Regardless 
of their place of residence, they are all tightly 
connected and bound by the process of constant 
transformation when art and new technology meet. 
In their video projections, these artists combine 
classical techniques of visual representation 
(drawing, painting, sculpture and photography) 
with digital reproduction practices, creating an 
on-going dialogue between traditional and modern 
techniques. Programmers, Curators: Hugo Ares, 
Jorge Lozano.
.

Fernando Llanos studied at La Esmeralda National 
School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving in 
Mexico, specializing in video. In 2000 he became 
interested in the relation between video and the 
Internet, e-mailing short works to a circle of 
500 in countries such as the US, Cuba, Mexico and 
in Brazil. He created a website (fllanos.com) 
with videos lasting less than 26 seconds.

Punto Suspensivo Sculpture Video: "Chamaco, my 
Chihuahua dog, gave me an iPhone at Christmas 
2007. Since then I have been taking several daily 
pictures, with multiple interests and purposes. 
In these 20 months I have taken 13,921 
iphoneographys, for this piece transferred to 
video and showed in a display that second to 
second present them for approximately four hours. 
The way of presenting them is through a 
mini-plasma that rotates 90 degrees left to 
right, depending on the photograph format, 
vertical or horizontal, highlighting with this 
rhythm the immediacy and excessive generation of 
images nowadays (2,000,000 pictures are uploaded 
daily on the site www.flickr.com). It shows the 
day to day (if you have the patience to see it 
completely) for over a year of an artist that has 
made the sharing of his privacy one of his 
concerns. This point is only one of the many that 
are suspended on the cyberspace."
www.fllanos.com/puntosuspensivo



Fernando Llanos, Punto suspensivo

Videoman (Talk and screening). "Fernando Llanos 
is one of the most interesting experimental 
artists in contemporary Mexico. His work shifts 
between several territories and disciplines, 
including video, robotics, ciberart and 
performance." Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Videoman 
captures the collective subconscious precisely 
where culture and counterculture meet. The stage 
is the street, a laboratory where people make 
their way without noticing how they transform 
their environment and create new models of 
coexistence.  The artist makes us reflect on the 
type of conscious which can be generated by a 
society where the masses obstruct, uniform and 
ignore but nevertheless create certain voids 
where the human being can flow individually - 
voids employed by Llanos to change both our 
routine and our spaces.  His reflections are 
projected in video format in different, 
previously analyzed points of the city. The 
ephemeral and mobile nature of the project 
involves the public through a closed-circuit 
system that records the reactions to this 
participative action defined by its creator as 
"urban acupuncture".
www.fllanos.com/vi_video

                    Laura Barron, Nostalgia


Laura Barron was born in Mexico. She received her 
undergraduate in Visual Arts at the UNAM and her 
Master in Visual Arts at York University. Since 
1993 she has been actively producing and has 
exhibited en Mexico, Canada, Japan, Venezuela, 
and USA. Her work is a part of the following 
public collections: Kiyasoto Museum of 
Photography Art, Japan, Museo del Carmen, Mexico 
City, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Walter 
Philip's Gallery, Canada, Cultural Foundation 
Omnilife, Mexico City, Museum of Fine Art, 
Houston, USA, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, 
Canada. In 2003 she immigrates to Toronto, the 
long process to adaptation to a new culture 
became a new focus point of her art. Nostalgia 
Video Installation: "Throughout my art practice 
I've been concerned with transforming images of 
existing landscapes into images of places that do 
not exist. My work was devoted to exploring 
landscape and its connection with memory. These 
images were my own private paradises, deeply 
desolate and de-populated yet functioning as a 
kind of antidote to the very large, sprawling and 
crowded city where I was raised-a place that in 
my mind I often imagined as some massive body of 
water. (This image in fact derives in part from 
the fact that the former Mexico-Tenochtitlan, 
today's Mexico City, was built on small islands.) 
I no longer live in Mexico City, but its presence 
lingers within my imagination nevertheless. In 
keeping with my interest in creating images as 
alternative worlds, worlds that at once reflect 
actual geographical spaces and interior spaces or 
reflections of the unconscious mind, the work I'm 
presenting explores the ambivalence of the 
nostalgic condition, the desire to be always 
where one is not, and its inherent impossibility".

Tania Aedo has used digital technology in her 
artistic practice since 1993. Her work has been 
exhibited in Mexico and abroad, including the 
Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, the Montreal 
International Festival of New Cinema, and New 
Media, and the Kyoto Art Center. She have been 
the director of the Centro Multimedia at the 
Centro Nacional de las Artes (CENART) and 
currently is the director of Laboratorio Arte 
Alamenda, both in Mexico City. In addition, she 
teaches and lectures on art and new media in 
other national and international forums. Aedo has 
been recognized with several fellowships and 
grants, including a 1998 residency at the Banff 
Centre for the Arts in Canada. She studied Visual 
Arts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas 
at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 
(UNAM). Her talk "Memory, New Media in Mexico" 
contextualizes a project intended to recuperate, 
and to expose Mexican new media productions. The 
laboratory "Arte Alameda" commissioned a group of 
curators-researchers to put together programs 
that will help to build an archeology of the new 
media practice in Mexico, to compile documents 
for the creation of an archive specifically 
related to new media production. This project was 
presented at the aperture of the first Centre for 
the Documentation of New Media in Mexico. The 
centre houses in its numerous archives the 
theoretical work by and about Mexican artists 
including the work of Príamo Lozada founder of 
the Alameda Laboratory. With the recuperation of 
this Memory the project has become a centre of 
reference for present and future generations.


Screening Schedule
November Friday 21th 2009, 9:00pm

CineCycle
129 Spadina Ave.
(In the alley south of Spadina Ave & Richmond St.)
Toronto, ON

Program: Origens and Technology
Los rollos perdidos de Pancho Villa.
Gregorio rocha
2003. 45:00 min. Video. (fragment)
Lost Portraits: Lula
Ricardo Nicolayevsky
1982-1985/2000. 00:25 min. Super-8. (fragment)
Program: Otredad
The American Egypt
Jesse Lerner
2001. 57:00 min. 16mm. (fragment)
Exotic Nippon
Bruno varela
2008. 01:35. Super-8 (fragment)

Program: Frontera
Fronterilandia
Rubén Ortiz/Jesse Lerner
1995. 16mm. 77:00 min. (fragment)
Scarlet, en Tracking Memory
Amanda Gutiérrez
05:45 min. (fragment)

Program: Cuerpo
Golpeando la gelatina
Claudia Prado
2002. 04:26 min. (fragment)
Cama
Ximena Cuevas
1998. 02:00 min. (fragment)

Program: Movimiento/percepción
Correr entre bejucos
Bruno Varela
2006. 00:58 min. Super-8 intervenido. (fragment)

Program: Mediación/Consumo
Šde negocios y placer
Iván Edeza
2000. 01:39 min. (fragment)
Invasión doméstica
Paulina del Paso
2002. 03:13 min. (fragment)
Phonesex
Doménico Cappello
2001.00:56 min.
No D.R.
A. Salomón
2002. (fragment)

Sound Art
Curated by Manuel Rocha e Israel M
Selection of audiovisual material from
the sound program
Música de cámara (fragment)
Colectivo música de cámara
1982. Video, Registro de acción

Memorable Family
Curated by Grace Quintanilla
Fragment selection of some of the
works from the program
Daniel Reyes para presidente (fragment)
Danny Reyes
2009.Documental
Panóptico (fragment)
Roberto Reyes
Videoarte

Revision of authors
Curated by Karla Jasso and Tania Aedo
Selection
Sarah Minter Documentary (fragment)
Andrés Padilla y Dalia Huerta Cano
Campermedia



Co-presented by Images Festival:


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