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My 2015 documentary, Juan Jaula es John Cage, made in collaboration with Guillermo Galindo, will be on view at ExTeresa Arte in Mexico City as part of Galindos retrospective, “All our atoms give body to thousands of lives before ours.” April 25 through July 21, 2024
Limited edition VHS puzzle now for sale through Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland, CA: shop.shapeshifterscinema.com
Two open calls for Open Air Media Festival 2024, due March 1st: https://www.publicspaceone.com/openair
I will be chairing a panel session titled, "Teaching Digital Art in the Age of Machine Learning" during the Mid-America College Art Association Virtual Conference on March 21st – 23rd, 2024.
Artist Talk: Intermedia Unbound, Department of Art and Art History, University of Maine, February 1, 2024
Portrait of Guillermo Gómez-Peña published for the 2023 Artistic Legacy Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Dancing with Fear series made in collaboration with La Pocha Nostra screened during the Inverse Performance Art Festival at The Momentary in Bentonville, AR, Nov 2-5, 2023.
Open call for the inaugural artist in residence for Open Air Media Festival is now live: publicspaceone.com/openair-artist-in-residence-2024 This residency is funded by a National Endowment for the Arts(NEA) Grants for Arts Projects and a Warhol Foundation Grant.
The Gatekeepers excerpt (Coyolxāuhqui & Cōātlīcue) featuring Yunuen Rhi will screen at Blum & Poe Gallery in Los Angeles on June 16, 2023 during the ACID-FREE art market. The screening is curated by Elizabeth Vasquez in partnership with the Philosophical Research Society. A second screening of the same program will be shown at The Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 16th.
Open Air Media Festival in partnership with Public Space One in Iowa City has just received a Grants for Arts Projects from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA). This funding will support an expanded version for next year's, 2024 festival including multiple locations for site-specific projects, a national open call for our video screening program selected by guest curators, and the ability to host an artist in residence. I am thrilled to receive this support and continue to grow this project.
Photograph from my Salton Sea series will be included in the book, What Makes a Lake? Tracing Movement, published by Another Earth, a publishing project created by artists Abbey Meaker, Cristian Ordóñez, and Estefania Puerta. https://another-earth.com/books
I have been accepted to the Certificate in Book Arts program at the University of Iowa. To support this research, I’ve received the Perrine Faculty Fellowship from Coe College. My coursework begins in Fall 2023.
Video editing workshop at PS1 Iowa City in May: http://www.publicspaceone.com/events/video-editing-may2023
Video still from my non-traditional documentary, Juan Jaula es John Cage will be included in the upcoming catalog from Vincent Price Museum in Los Angeles, Sonic Terrains in Latinx Art. Edited by: Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Joseph Daniel Valencia, and Javier Arellano Vences.
4th Annual Open Air Media Festival will take place on Saturday June 3, 2023 at PS1 Close House. This years festival received funding from the City of Iowa City Public Art Program (PAAC) matching grant and Iowa Arts Council.
Panelist:Taking it to the Streets, Art Practices in the Public Realm, TransCultural Exchange's 2022 International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Create the Future. Nov 4-6, 2022, College of the Fenway, Boston, MA
Presenter, MdW Assembly. Artist-run art fair at Mana Contemporary. Chicago, Il. Sept 9-11, 2022
Participating Artist: 2022 International Digital Media & Art Association’s Weird Media exhibition at Laird-Norton Gallery at Winona State University, June 24-26, 2022