I am delighted to participate in the inaugural exhibition, “Shot”, at the new Dumbo-based Giacobetti Paul Gallery.

Giacobetti Paul Gallery
111 Front St. Suite 220
Brooklyn, New York 11201

917.548.8107
info@giacobettipaulgallery.com

SHOT
A group exhibition with Jimmy Fountain, Mylène Giacobetti, Simon Kahn, JiYe Kim, Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Christy Powers
November 5 – November 29, 2009

Artists’ Reception
Thursday, November 5, 5:30 – 8:30pm

Gallery Hours
Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 6pm
Closed Thanksgiving Day

I will be showing all new work (prints, lightboxes and video) shot in Brazil and which builds on my ongoing project on commuters.  In the show are works with images taken in the Sao Paulo airport, the small ferry station in Bom Despacho, the historical Estação Da Luz train station, and other public spaces with commuters. I am interested in these spaces for their strong relationship to time, and have used my own commutes and global travels as brief, often rushed, artist “residencies” in which I capture anxiety, rush, linger, movement and most importantly, time.

In my light boxes, sequences of images that could be collaged digitally to create one print are instead presented as physically collaged, almost sculptural, backlit objects. They are thick photographs that require time to view, appreciate, and understand.  They encourage the art viewer to slow down and take as much time as is encapsulated in the artifact, to view it.  In this show I will also have a pair of slow videos which challenge the rapidly moving images that constantly surround us and again are an invitation to experience my time behind the camera and in that particular space, in the viewing of slowly moving loops which don’t seem to have a beginning nor an end.

I am thrilled to be attending the Impacto Social del Diseño (Design’s Social Impact) conference in Mexico City this week.  I’ll be giving a presentation about a recent paper I wrote that focuses on a redefinition of design as experienced in the work we have been doing in Guatemala.

There’s a great line-up of presenters, and I’m looking forward to the talks as well as the after-talks networking!

My work “28 Days” is part of a Colombian video art exhibition currently up in the Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Buenos Aires.  Let me know if you are able to see the show since unfortunately I won’t be able to travel!

Mi obra “28 Days” es parte de una exposición de video arte colombiano que está siendo presentada en el Espacio Fundación Telefónica en Buenos Aires.  Avísenme si vio la exposición ya que desafortunadamente no podré viajar!

I was invited to speak tonight at the Ignite NYC event as part of Yahoo’s Open Hack NYC Developer Conference. Here’s a brief description of the talk and I’ve included the PowerPoint presentation below:

Since 2007 I have been involved in an ongoing project through Parsons and The New School in which faculty travel to Guatemala each summer with teams of students to help small Mayan women’s artisan associations to create sustainable income-generating businesses through the sale of their products in global markets.  In this talk I will focus on how my work in one of the towns, San Lucas Tolimán, has been an invitation to slow down, to reconsider my spatial frameworks, and particularly, to question and challenge the good & the bad in our highly mediated networks.

I’ll be presenting in that insane 5-minutes-20-slides-with-15-second-auto-advance format (aka Pecha Kucha) and it seems to be a great lineup of presenters! I’ll post a link to the video once it’s up.  To attend, you can find all the details here (no need to RSVP.)