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 one in a team of faculty and students from Parsons, Milano, and the graduate program in International Affairs from The New School to return to Guatemala to continue the work started last year, with the goal of promoting social and economic development through design.

We are collaborating with an association of Mayan weavers in the town of San Lucas Toliman and with a group that is just now working together, in Santiago Zamora.

For more details, and photos and video of our work, please see the blog we update almost daily.

Soy parte de un grupo de artistas de medios interesados en crear una comunidad robusta y presencia en internet, que una el gran trabajo de artistas de media el mundo de habla hispana // I am one in a group of artists interested in creating a robust community and online presence of the great media artwork in the Spanish-speaking world.

Por favor llene esta encuesta si quisiera estar al tanto de esta iniciativa // Please fill out this short survey if you would like to be kept posted on this initiative.

In a recent conversation with an art critic who has looked through my work, she pointed out that I seem to be very interested in visualizing data (rss feeds into a flag, multiple photographs into one image, video tracking information into animated text), so it is not surprising that as soon as I heard about Daytum, I had to participate!

I started when it was in beta phase, and continue now that it has officially launched.  I find the charts and interface beautiful, and have been experimenting with everyday information, which may become meaningful after a certain accumulation.  Let me know what you think!