The following text is an excerpt from the book "Carlos Cruz-Diez in conversation with Ariel Jiménez," published by Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in 2010. More
In this interview, the artist Ángela Bonadies talks with Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina about "pornomiseria," a term he coined, as a resource that some filmmakers practice with "a mix of committed exoticism and adventurous tourism" to speculate on and exploit poverty to attract audiences. More
In this case I went back to Otovalan weaving as a technique to reproduce the image because I was interested in commissioning production from people within the communities represented in the images... More
In his article “When Computational Devices are Used for the Visual Arts” Augusto Gerardi cites a seminal exhibition of computer-generated art in Caracas curated by German philosopher and information theorist Max Bense. Opened in 1974, the show was one of the first instances in which the creative capacity of computers was explored and cybernetics was introduced into the field of art. More
