I'm an emerging new media artist, for over eight years an IT Manager, for over twelve years an Internet Producer, and over seven years a video/filmmaker. I have employed various arts practices, disciplines, and technologies to investigate issues critical to the advancement of our culture. My practice centers on the representation of immigrants and, in particular, the aesthetics of border politics in New Media Art.visit my website http://www.ChicanaFeliz.com
Humanitarian Water (03;20) this is a short video about the water that is placed at the US/Mexican border to help immigrants survive the summer heat of the Calexico and Ocotillo deserts. It talks about how more people have died crossing the US Mexican Border in one year than have those who tried crossing the Berlin Wall the entire time it was up. In the end a border agent stops the filmmaker and scares her into leaving the “high-traffic” area.
AB_Time #3 (03;00) a cross-border iChat AV Collaborative Dance Performance with Marsaille, France and Vancouver, Canada at Troy, New York with world renown Pauline Oliveros founder of the Deep Listening Institute. Ab_Time # 3 MARSEILLE - VANCOUVER - NEW-YORK Performed for the NIME 2005 conference in Vancouver, New Interface for Musical Expression The conference was hosted at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada from May 26 to 28, 2005
Casheamelo (01;06) is a short film about a real life immigrant living in Troy, New York who needed to cash his paycheck while not actually having a valid form of US Identification. He tries to go to the cash register attendant, he calls his manager, he finds a Chicana and she helps him cash his check. Finally he's able to fulfill his American dream of participating in this economy by spending it all at Walmart.
Juarez Mothers Fight Femicide (09;00) is about the mothers of the “Women of Juarez”. The video does not try to pound you over the head with more information. It basically looks at the opinions of the mothers in regards to what was the final story with each case. Interviewed are mothers from all social strata but this film points out that the pain is equal and all valid emotions. The fact that the “women are poor” is pointed out by Marisela Ortiz from Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa as a reaso...
I saw these scarcrows off the 98 Highway south of the 8 freeway in Southern California very near the border. They were placed in an underpass at the height of the minuteman movement. These were either placed there by anti-immigrant groups or by the United States Border Patrol. I'm not too sure but I felt they looked like sculptures that were installed in the desert sand to scare undocumented people running though the border.
I documented this MFA Show for the iEAR arts program at Rensselaer. If you visit arts.rpi.edu you can get more information on each artist that participated in this event.
Soy una chica cybernetica experta en computadoras con licenciatura de la Universidad de California, San Diego.Aqui explico que es una chicana feliz?Â
Random video about this guy @ the mal singing me a song in bengali while I try on all his glasses for free.
by the El Tigre Art Camp Participants of 2008 Sarita Elementary School in partnership with Texas A&M, Kingsville Art Department Professor Santa Barraza http://eltigreartcamp.blogspot.com www.SantaBarraza.com www.tamuk.edu
Turnstyle is the video documentation to my interactive installation, which is a life size revolving door that represents the US/Mexican Border. Basically when you walk into the door and turn it in one direction it plays a “US Video,” when you turn it in another direction it plays the “Mexican Video.” It is a satirical art piece as well as a serious look at how the border really ends up playing out. The user tends to just get dizzy from the experience and only can I pass or not pass is learned.