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Other Futures for Our Pasts in Feminist Art Interventions in the Archive in UNSETTLE UNSETTLE Feminist Approaches to the Architectural Archives
It was an incredible honour to participate in the graduate symposium “UNSETTLE Feminist Approaches to the Architectural Archives,” organized by Eliza Pertigkiozoglou, Beatriz Takahashi, and Erica Vinson at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture at McGill University, October 2-3, 2024. Anne Hultzsch from the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zurich,…
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Tambadoras Dancing with the Palo River: A Research-Creation Exploration of Traditional Gold Mining in Colombia
Congratulations to Maira Cristina Castro Mina, who defended her MA thesis, “Tambadoras Dancing with the Palo River: A Research-Creation Exploration of Traditional Gold Mining in Colombia,” and passed with no revisions. In this project, Maira Cristina Castro Mina explores the traditional gold mining practices of Tambadoras, a group of Afro-Colombian women from Guachené, Colombia. Reflecting…
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Tune-in to Radio Caso for the podcast presentation of Switched On: The Dawn of Electronic Sound by Latin American Women
Excited to take part in this podcast to launch the book Switched On: el amanecer del sonido electrónica por mujeres latinoamericanas. Tune in to Radio Caso, March 2 18hr Argentina (CET -4) The Centro de Arte Sonoro (CASo) is the first institution in Argentina dedicated to the research, creation and dissemination of artistic practices based…
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Book Launch “Switched On: The Dawn of Electronic Sound by Latin American Women” – March 3, 2024
Excited to be part of this project that highlights the contributions of Latin American women artists to sound in the arts and electronic music! Switched On: The Dawn of Electronic Sound by Latin American Women (210 pages, hardcover) This is the first book dedicated exclusively to the female protagonists of Latin American electronic music. The…
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LAMAS Latin American Media Arts Symposium – Oct 4-7, 2023 @ Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave, Toronto.
I am excited to participate in the first edition of the Latin American Media Arts Symposium (LAMAS) in Toronto along with a wonderful group of artists, scholars and community organizers. Over the course of 4 days, we will gather with a group of curious and thoughtful artists, filmmakers, critics, and academics engaging with Latin American*…
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Diaspora Dialogues: Archiving the Familiar – Opening Reception, Oct 4 @ SUR Gallery, Toronto
I am really excited to participate Diaspora Dialogues: Archiving the Familiar, featuring my work along with Amanda Gutiérrez, Cecilia Araneda, Soledad Fátima Muñoz, and Rosalina Libertad Cerritos, curated by Sarah Shamash and Tamara Toledo. Diaspora Dialogues: Archiving the Familiar features contemporary artworks by five women artists from the Latin American diaspora that apply a variety of…
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Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design – Book Launch
New book alert! Really excited about the publication of Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design edited by Daniel Cardoso Llach and Theodora Vardouli documents a curatorial and editorial project visually exploring the intersection of design and computation. It draws from a series of exhibitions, events, and conversations featuring computational design pioneers as well as…
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Homenaje a Carmen Barradas, Ateneo de Madrid, May 13, 2023
We are happy to share the video recording documenting the concert seminar to commemorate the more than 100 years of Carmen Barradas’s piano recital at the Ateneo de Madrid. I was honoured to share the stage with the talented Uruguayan pianist Patricia Mendoza Lluberas, Adriana Santos Melgarejo, Carmen Cecilia Piñero, Miguel Molina Alarcón, and Juan…
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Red Sono(soro)ridades @ LASA 2023 The Right to Listen
Victoria Polti, Freya Zinovieff, Amanda Guitiérrez, and Laura Balboa members of the RED SONO(SORO)RIDADES presented in LASA 2023 as part of the panel THE RIGHT TO LISTEN: COLONIALITY, AURAL REGIMES AND TECHNOPOLITICAL ACTIVISMS organized by AMANDA GUTIERREZ, chaired by VICTORIA POLTI with GABRIELA ACEVES SEPULVEDA as discussant The presenters discussed various engagements with sound methodologies,…
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Latinx-Canadian Visual and Media Arts as Decolonial Efforts: Mapping and Questioning Initiatives Across Canada
Who said there is no Latin/Latinx art in Canada? Yesterday, I had the pleasure to chair an amazing discussion on Latin/Latinx Art in Canada with four amazing scholars of Latin/x- Canadian Art, Analays Alvarez, Zaira Zarza, Tamara Toledo and Sarah Shamash at UAAC/AAUC 2022 Stay tuned for our upcoming book on the topic! Here is…
