e- fagia presents digital event, an exhibition of projects by artists from the fields of video art, net art and interactive art. There has been a selection of 25 works, local and international, reflecting on a broad range of issues including the re/construction of memory, narratives, language, net communities and interfaces. These works deal with the concept of "transformation", a term used to dimension the possibilites of digital media and their connection and interaction with the environment and the concept of reality.
Subjective narratives weaving reality
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Somewhere between here and there, narrativas contadas narrativas vividas.
Alicia Felberbaum -
This work experiments with aesthetic and theoretical forms assigned to the documentary genre and also focuses on the potential of 'soft-linked' storieswhen computers are added to the storytelling process, through algorithms applied to an array of elements [images, audio and video segments] stored in a database.
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Raíces Entrecruzadas / Tangled Roots
Taira Liceaga -Puerto Rico- Canada
Juxtaposing portraits of her daughter against those of hers, her fathers’ and granparents’, Taira Liceaga reflects on family resemblances across generations. Faces become the focus of this exploration, prompting questions about ancestries and personal family history. |
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Tejido de Memoria / Memory Weave
Marina Zerbarini - Argentina
Memory weave explores the topics of human rights, poverty and social inequality, providing access to videos, statistical information, graphics and images in an intuitive way. It provides a space that reveals itself subtly, in veiled layers that can be reorganized, forming a non-linear narrative that seeks to evoke the paths of memory. |
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Faixa Compartilhadá A preferencia é do Poeta/Shared Track, The Poet Has The Right of Way.
Regina Célia Pinto - Brazil
Shared Track is a work that reveals locations and sights of the ordinary daily life in a poetic way, allowing the user to access this photographic landscape using a simple navigation scheme.
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e-sky / cielos
Call for entries by Julieta Maria - Colombia -Canada
e-sky is an ongoing new media project, in which people all over the world are asked to take a short 10 second video of the sky with their digital camera and send it via e-mail. This e-sky postcard will then be uploaded into a flash library so that it is included in the web. The e-sky collection will also have brief texts displaying along with the videos, also collected through e-mail. |
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Viewing Axolotls / Olhar Axolotes
Regina Célia Pinto
Based on a short story by Julio Cortázar and the work of Gustavo Bernardo, Viewing Axolotl is a work that reflects on imagination as an element and its role in the construction of reality, on perception, and its relationship to the virtual. It is a work that allows for user participation. |
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Pores
Alexandra Gelis
Interactive Wood Skin
Layers and layers of staples in a skin tonalities game
immigrants’ stories
City pores emanating and threading thousands and thousands of stories of Toronto. |
Media, technology, society and self: transgressing territories
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Traveling corners / Esquinas Rodantes
Raúl Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet, Cuba - USA
In this project Raul maps the virtual territory of the “transnational urban community” as a space of flows that provides, via the database and material arrangements – the experimental organic history – that allows for simultaneity of social practices without physical territorial contiguity. |
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TLC:All the chiapas
Jorge Albán - Costa Rica
In TLC: All Chiapas, the user is exposed to two incompatible types of discourse: that of Latin American populism and the discourse of fear by the United States, following the incidents of 9/11. It is a reflection on how globalization affects our most private realm. |
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imagepirate.com
Antonio Mendoza - USA
Image Pirate emphasizes the characteristics of the digitalized media, using appropriated sounds, clips and images, fragmenting, manipulating and recombining them in a digital collage. It combines films snippets with cnn news and other found footage in an active non-narrative mp4 browser assault. |
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Altred - Colombia
Through self-management, we practice what we call "free networks". We have the idea to generate an open communiy, not driven by commercial interests. From a technological perspective, we build a community , the structure of which is as transparent as the wave spectrum we use. |
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Ways of Neuron
Andrés Burbano - Colombia
Ways of neuron Is a prototype for an online scientific documentary about the impact of Neuroscience Research and its relationship with the nature of the mind. The documentary has a navigational interface which design is guided by conceptual principles rather than traditional principles of visual design. |
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Constant Pursuit
Patricio Dávila - Chile - Canada
In Pursuit and Capture, Patricio Dávila reflects on filmic conventions employed by action movies in car chase scenes. The constituent parts of many different sequences are stored in a database and then accessed randomly by a search engine, in order to create new sequences out of different combinations. |
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La Mareadora
Eugenio Tisselli - México-Barcelona
In this algorithmically generated blog, Eugenio Tisselli explores the activity of creation and transformation of language, using the tools available in the Internet to recombine meanings, allowing the reader to discover new relationships between words and ideas, establishing a potentially rich source of creation and inspiration. |
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Performance
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Little Indians through the webcam
Tania de la Cruz -México, Canada
Little Indians through the webcam is a video-performance that reflects on the relationship between dominant and dominated cultures. Tania will be performing live on specified dates and times for people who connect to the chat window. |
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Stay in Place (presented at Gallery 1313, available in the internet from October 10th.
Sara Malinarich - Chile
STAY IN PLACE is the documentation of a moment shared by two friends who connect through a Chat by Internet. It reflects on issues around human relationships mediated by technology, dematerialization of the body, and the fusion of the scenes into one space of digital nature. |
Visual artists and the web
As a way to encourage the production of digital works, e-fagia invited several Latin-Canadian visual artists to participate in the conception and creation of a digital project to be included on this site. The following works have been created or adapted for this festival. |
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Delirium
Claudia Bernal - Colombia - Canada
Delirium is a work that presents a delicate soundscape together with photographs of a series of gestures performed as in a ritual, in which the author reflects on issues like feminine identity, marginality, isolation, fragility and inner strength. This piece is based on the text Elle coupe le Un en Deux from the French writer Monique Enckell. |
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Migrations
Diana Cadavid y Álvaro Girón - Cololmbia - Canada
Does every ability made itself needed? Does every movement reach for a final stillness? What do birds look for when they get to a new place? These are matters of survival. Not of poetry. How do they remember the long route they repeat every time they leave? As an immigrant, what is your place in a society that's already built upon migrations? |
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LandEscape
Lina Rodríguez - Colombia - Canada
In LandEscape, Lina Rodríguez explores the questions and contradictions between land and memory. Fragmented texts, images and data come together in an attempt to cope with a landscape that changes and shifts both in the present and in the past, in presence and absence. |
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Exquisite Corpse
Z'otz Colloective - México, Honduras, Canada
Nahúm Flores, Erik Jerezano, and Ilyana Martínez met one day and created a new entity – Z’otz* (Mayan word for “bat”) – an amalgamation of their personalities and a fusion of their artistic styles. Create random compositions out of their drawings and texts. |
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Projects @ Gallery 1313, Toronto
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Rocamadour / Living Culture
Jorge Lozano and Sinara Rozo - Colombia, Canada
These two interactive pieces that reflect on marginal cultures, history and latin roots. |
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Constant Pursuit
Patricio Dávila - Chile - Canada 2006
In Pursuit and Capture, Patricio Dávila reflects on filmic conventions employed by action movies in car chase scenes. The constituent parts of many different sequences are stored in a database and then accessed randomly by a search engine, in order to create new sequences out of different combinations. |
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85%
Guillermina Buzio Argenitna - Canada 2006
85% is a video and sound installation. This piece is a metaphore for our daily lifes, running to places and passing through seasons, never arriving. 85% works with concepts of sound, movement and repetition, bringing us fromnorthern argentina to toronto. |
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Stay in Place (presented at Gallery 1313, available in the internet from October 10th.
Sara Malinarich - Chile
STAY IN PLACE is the documentation of a moment shared by two friends who connect through a Chat by Internet. It reflects on issues around human relationships mediated by technology, dematerialization of the body, and the fusion of the scenes into one space of digital nature. |
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Street is a Mutha
Josue Maya, Lalo Lorza Baker, Ivana Quiroga & Alberto Maurique
Produced as part of the Alucine workshops in collaboration with the centre for Spanish Speaking People. The video makers travel through different parts of the city searching for answers about the violence that is affecting Toronto. |
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