August 8, 2008:  This year, our theme is digital color. We seek to explore the thresholds of digital color, as we study 24-bit color bit by bit. As you may know, a binary string of 24 bits (1 bit = a zero or a one) defines standard digital colors. When you register for our unusual, virtual yet physical conference, you will set one of the bits to define the colors of our 080808 conference T-shirt. Yes, we will design the 080808 conference T-shirt together, bit by bit. Because the T-shirt has 4 colors, and each color has 24 bits, the conference is limited to four times 24 or 96 participants.  More info: http://studio.berkeley.edu/080808

Ricardo Rivadeneira escribe sobre el video 30 Segundos.  Artículo publicado en Vistazos Criticos.

Ricardo Rivadeneira writes about the piece 30 Seconds.  Article published in Vistazos Criticos.

http://criticosvistazos.blogspot.com/

Click on the image to watch the video. Video Still from Death at Once

 Video by Claudia Salamanca.

This video looks for the moment of change.  It interrogates what transformation means by reflecting in its’ relationship with what is left behind, the possibility of a future form and death.  The discussion of transformation that this video presents is embedded in the recording technologies, and its’ implications with memory, past, future and the sense of seeing.  It asks if it is necessary to see change in order to remember it, or to feel it.  

Found Footage from:
01. Chengue Massacre, Colombia, January, 2001. 
02. Photo of the fake death of narcotrafficker Wilber Varela aka Jabón.  For more info see http://www.clarin.com/ 
03. Vampire movie trailer.
04. Proof of Life Video of backpackers kidnapped by the ELN, 2003.

To watch this video in a better resolution CLICK HERE.

Ricardo Arcos Palma escribe sobre la exposición que Andrés Gaitán y yo curamos para el Salón Relón Regional Zona Centro, exhibida en Bogotá por primera vez en el Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Ricardo Arcos Palma wrote a review about the exhibition that  I co-curated with Andrés Gaitán for the Regional Art Show in Colombia.

“El Espejo, Ni si ni no… Sino todo lo contrario”: http://criticosvistazos.blogspot.com/

 
        

Click on the image to watch the video.

Video still from 30 Seconds

Video by Claudia Salamanca

30 Seconds is the first piece in a larger project called Time of death. The main goal is to explore death as an unrepeatable and unshareable experience. This project looks for entrances into the death of the Other, into the impossibility that defines death as such in order to explore modes of relationality that compel us to listen and understand. 

On february 1, 2003, Edualdo Diaz Salgado, aka Tito, the suspended mayor of the small Town of El Roble located in the Sucre region of Colombia took the microphone in a community meeting in which the president of Colombia was present.  He took the floor to speak on education but ultimately gave a speech that described his own death.  Tito denounced the corrupted powers of the Sucre region, revealing by name the dirty nexus of the offices of the regional and national prosecutors, the Administrative Department of Security, and senators of Colombia.  In his speech, we hear –they are going to kill me.  And we hear it more than once. I compare this anticipation of death with my own personal pain in regards to the illness of my mother. Through what is personal I look for the political framed within a much larger context.