[Reader-list] September on -empyre-: Sites in Translation

[Christina McPhee]

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as we explore "Sites in Translation"

with artists Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, Mariam Ghani, Lana Lin, H. Lan  
Thao Lam, and Angel Nevarez


In 2004, five artists and collaborative groups were commissioned to make
web-based projects for the latest edition of inSite, the binational
exhibition of site-specific work staged every few years along the San
Diego/Tijuana border.  Having opened the final week of August 2005,   
inSite's
first venture online raises a number of interesting questions for
discussion.  "Tijuana Calling" is online now at:

<http://www.insite05.org/auxillary/tjcalling2.htm>


The artists ask:   "Is the net a vast ‘no-man’s-land,’ a border-free  
zone contiguous to every place but specific to none? Or does the net  
re-enact the politics of physical geography, with its own border  
policies and politics of exclusion, recognition and reciprocity? Is  
it possible for new media artists to activate the net for the staging  
of projects responsible and responsive to communities that fall  
between legitimized power sectors, and if so how?

"We would like to examine the role of the artist as translator,  
mediating between points of origin and reception. We propose several  
approaches toward understanding translation: physical place as re- 
articulated in virtual space; linguistic translation proper; cross- 
cultural production; and on-line transmission."


Please welcome Ricardo, Mariam, Lana, Lan Thao, and Angel.


------------------------------------------------>Ricardo Miranda  
Zuniga grew up between Nicaragua, and San Francisco. A
bicultural upbringing tied to a multidisciplinary education has led  
to work that attempts to cultivate interaction with the viewer and  
may include performance, sculpture, video and audio, the Internet or  
a combination of all. The principle behind the work is communication  
as a creative process. <http://www.ambriente.com/>

---------------------------------------------->Mariam Ghani is a  
Brooklyn-based artist whose work in video, installation, new media,  
text and public dialogue performance investigates how history is  
constructed and reconstructed as narrative in the present. Her work  
has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 1999, and she  
has been making web-based projects since 2003. <http://www.kabul- 
reconstructions.net/mariam>

----------------------------------------------->Lana Lin is a New  
York-based media artist whose practice interprets
cultural histories and the processes of identification. Her work has  
been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American  
Art, New York, China Taipei Film Archive, Taiwan, and the Festival de
Femmes, Creteil, France.

------------------------------------------------->H. Lan Thao Lam is  
a bilingual artist/writer who has lived in Vietnam,
Malaysia, Canada and the US. Lam's work probes the inter- 
relationships between place and history, architecture and philosophy.  
Lam is the recipient of the Canadian Council for the Arts Media  
Grant, H.L. Rous Sculpture Award, and James Robertson Environmental  
Design Award.


------------------------------------------------>Angel Nevarez was  
born in Mexico City, 1970, and raised in the United States. Nevarez  
studied biology at the University of California, San Diego and in  
2001-2002 was a studio fellow of the Whitney Museum Independent Study  
Program. He is co-founder of the artist collaborative  
neuroTransmitter, whose work fuses transmission and conceptual art.  
<http://www.neurotransmitter.fm/>



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