This issue of Felix: A Journal of Media Arts & Communications is curated around the idea of the political, the transgressive, the risk of making works described by artists living in Mexico and the US. Risk/Riesgo is 568 bilingual pages of articles, intriguing interviews and artist pages referent to topics relating to public space, culture jamming, body politics, reconstructing history, and daring. The Standby Program and Editor Kathy High created Risk/Riesgo with the help of guest editors Ximena Cuevas (Mexico), Roberto Lopez (Mexico), Jesse Lerner (US) and Ricardo Nicolayevsky (Mexico).
This issue of Felix: A Journal of Media Arts & Communications is curated around the idea of the political, the transgressive, the risk of making works described by artists living in Mexico and the US. Risk/Riesgo is 568 bilingual pages of articles, intriguing interviews and artist pages referent to topics relating to public space, culture jamming, body politics, reconstructing history, and daring. The Standby Program and Editor Kathy High created Risk/Riesgo with the help of guest editors Ximena Cuevas (Mexico), Roberto Lopez (Mexico), Jesse Lerner (US) and Ricardo Nicolayevsky (Mexico).
Introduction; Kathy High - Anxiety of the Analog; Chapter 1: Public Space/Public Interference; Rafael Lozano-Hemmer interview by Priamo Lozada;!Kung Lab; Simin Farkhondeh - Graffitt:Writings on the Wall; Art Jones - Almost an Art Form: The Fine Art of VJ-ing; Lorena Wolffer; Ruben Ortiz-Torres & Jesse Lerner - The Case of Hugo Sanchez and the Severed Cows Head; Liz Miller; Chip Lord & Gustavo Vazquez; Minerva Cuevas & Nikolai Jeffs - Astronauts of Inner Space; Fernando Llanos; Shelly Silver - Risk and Suicide (a love story) or What's In It for Me? Paulina del Paso; Chapter 2: Spin Cycle/Media Jamming; Roberto Lopez; Miguel Calderon interviewed by Kathy High - The Disciple of Speed; Arcangel Constantint; Ricardo Dominguez - Risk: A Chronology; Pocho; RTMark - E2K: A Travelogue; Animal Charm; Kathy High & Ximena Cuevas; Nao Bustamante interview by Jose Munoz; Adrian Garcia; Gustavo Artigas interview by Bill Kelley; Alex Rivera - Mi Familia; Miranda July - Ask Me; Miguel Monroy; Vicente Razo; Branda Miller; Chapter 3: Inscribing the Body; Lourdes Portillo; A. Salomon; Lourdes Portillo interview by Maria-Christina Villasenor; Teresa Margolles; Teresa Margolles interview by Kathy High & Ricardo Nicolayevsky - Working with Death; Fabiola Torres; Carl Pope interview by Christa Erikson - Palimpest; Richard Moszka & Greg Samsa; Santiago Sierra - Observations; Jimena Mendoza; Matt Wolf - Queer Youth Objects; Claudia Prado; Ursula Biemann - The Clash of Sexuality and Technology on the Border; Silvia Gruner; Chapter 4: Erosion/Rewriting History; Paul Chan - The Rewriting of the Disaster: Thoughts on Independent Media, New Media & the Work of Mourning; Jesse Lerner - The American Egypt; Big Noise - A Storm from the Mountain; Roberto Lopez; Louis Hock - Poinsetta; Rafael Tonatiuh - The Tower: The 16th Greater Arcanum of the Tarot; Ivan Edeza; Cuauhtemoc Medina - Turbulences: On Cruzob by Mariana Botey; Mariana Botey - Cruzob; Marco Granados - Risk Is Not the Same As Marketing; Chilango; Dante . (Part contents).
Kathy High is a media artist, curator, and teacher living and working in New York City. She teaches in the Visual Arts Department at Princeton University, and at New York University. She has received numerous awards for her video works including grants from The Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently working on a musical about human genome mapping, called "The 23 Songs of the Chromosomes." High is also the founder and editor of Felix, which encourages dialogue among alternative media makers.
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