Richard and Ophelia
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Impagable archivo de fotografías familares sobre los padres en My parents are awesome.
Richard and Ophelia
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Puerto de la cruz / tenerife, acrílico sobre postales, 15x10 cm, c/uArte, Arquitectura y Sociedad Digital es un grupo de investigación que nació en 1999 y está vinculado al Departamento de Historia del Arte de la Universidad de Barcelona. Los objetivos de nuestras investigaciones giran entorno al estudio de diferentes disciplinas artísticas y arquitectónicas en relación con las tecnologías de la comunicación y la información. Todo ello con el fin de dar a conocer estos materiales a través de la organización de jornadas universitarias. El objetivo primordial que persigue el grupo con este tipo de iniciativas es la de comprometer a la academia a introducir nuevos temas de debate y nuevos materiales que sirvan de objeto de estudio en futuras investigaciones más profundas.
En esta ocasión, celebramos nuestras IV Jornadas Internacionales tituladas "Universos y Metaversos: aplicaciones artísticas de los nuevos medios" que se celebrarán los miércoles 7 y 14 de abril de 2010 en la Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Universidad de Barcelona (Calle Montalegre 6-8, Barcelona (4º piso)). Para todo ello contamos con la participación de: Jaime del Val, Pau Alsina, Alessandro Scali, Giulio Prisco, José Luis de Vicente, Clara Games, David Apfel, David Rodríguez, entre otros. Para más información, visite nuestra página web: www.artyarqdigital.com
Independence Day 1936-1967 features archival photos mainly from the first Independence Day ceremonies of various nations including Indonesia, India, Ghana, Senegal, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, Malaysia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Vietnam (South), and Algeria. The first Independence Day, leading up to and including the formal ceremony, unfolds as a series of highly codified rituals and elaborate speech acts enacted across public and elite spaces. The swearing in of a new leadership, the signing of relevant documents, the VIP parade, the stadium salute, the first address to the new nation, is all supervised and orchestrated by the departing colonial power. The photographic material is strikingly similar despite disparate geographical and temporal origins as it reveals a political model exported from Europe and in the process of being cloned throughout the world. The photo installation emerges as a topology, poised somewhere between a grid and a script.
Special thanks: National Archives of Tanzania, Mohamed Kouaci Archives (Algeria), National Archives of Syria, National Archives of Malaysia, Teen Murti Archives (India), Ghana Ministry of Information, National Archives of Kenya, National Archives of Pakistan, Life Magazine (Senegal, Vietnam, Mozambique), Antara News Agency (Indonesia).
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Maryam Jafri (b. Karachi, Pakistan) is an artist working in video, photography and collage. Informed by a research based, interdisciplinary process, her artworks are often marked by a visual language poised between film and theater and a series of narrative experiments oscillating between script and document, fragment and whole. She holds a BA from Brown University and is a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
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