I have a couple of pieces playing at the Museo Nacional de Arte and CENART in Mexico City, as part of the the Transitio_MX Festival of Electronic and Video Arts. The festival goes from Sept. 30 through Oct. 9.

The Transitio_MX Festival of Electronic and Video Arts is the only event of its kind in Mexico. This year, our main theme explores the notion of technology as affection: How does technology affect us? How does it intervene in aesthetic activities? This festival is open to all those who are interested in digital culture and creative production via electronic media: videoart, netart, installations, composition, and similar endeavors.

I will be screening my short, ‘Lucky Strike’ at the Festival of (In)Appropriation, at the Egyptian Theater, LA, on Sept. 18 at 7:30pm. More about the event:

Whether you call it collage, compilation, found footage, detournement, or recycled cinema,the incorporation of previously shot materials into new artworks is a practice that has generated novel juxtapositions of elements which have produced new meanings and ideas that may not have been intended by the original makers,that are,in other words “inappropriate.”This act of appropriation may produce revelation that leads viewers to reconsider the relationship between past and present,here and there,intention and subversion. Fortunately for our purposes,the past decade has seen the emergence of a wealth of new sources for audiovisual materials that can be appropriated into new works. In addition to official state and commercial archives,vernacular archives,home movie collections,and digital archives have provided fascinating source material that may be repurposed in such a way as to give it new meanings and resonances.

Founded in 2009,the Festival of (In)appropriation is a yearly showcase of contemporary short (20 minutes or less) audiovisual works that appropriate film or video footage and repurpose it in “inappropriate”and inventive ways. The show,now in its third year,is curated by Jaimie Baron,Lauren Berliner,and Andrew Hall.

My work will be part of this very cool show in Istanbul called Mind The Gap. If you happen to be in Turkey next week, or have friends there, pass the information along.

Here is more information about the show and organizers:

MIND THE GAP is a multi-platform arts initiative created by artist Alexia Mellor and co-organized with Michelle Dunn. Mellor formed the concept in order to create an accessible, global forum for emerging contemporary artists and thinkers to discuss, challenge, and connect new ideas. MTG is taking place in Istanbul, Turkey from September 13-15, 2011 and headquartered at IMC5533 in the Istanbul Textile Traders Market.

MIND THE GAP playfully alludes to transportation, but also references borders and gaps of all kinds: geographic, social, and economic. These events are aimed at engaging discussions of how emerging artists from around the globe are addressing issues of geographic and social borders, technological borders, and socioeconomic gaps.

MIND THE GAP asks the following questions:

In the face of global economic and environmental crises, what options do we have for a new vision?
What does nationality mean in a homogenized world in which multinational chain corporations are on every street corner in every corner of the globe?
How have our definitions of place been altered by the technologies we use every day?
MIND THE GAP is a featured panel at ISEA 2011 at Sabanci University in Istanbul, September 18, 2011.