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A SPARKS online presentation introducing the participation of The Future Past v. Coloniality: Decolonial Media Art Beyond 530 years exhibition in the 2023 Siggraph conference. Moderated by the curator Dr. Liliana Conlisk Gallegos and Kathy Rae Huffman. Ricardo Dominguez and Dr. Amy Sara Carroll will present on the award winning “The Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT)”, included in The Future Past v. Coloniality. Part of the Electronic Disturbance Theatre 2.0/b.a.n.g. tab), “TBT” is a classic example of performance, poetry, and executable code. It was designed to assist disoriented border crossers to find emergency water and safety. First tested in 2009, the project interfaced with the non-profit groups Water Station Inc. and Border Angels, who shared their locations with the TBT team. As transborder new media art pioneers, Dominguez and Carroll will highlight the particular contexts of borders and their engagement with transdisciplinarity, rasquache, nepantlera, and hypertextuality as unique methods and sensibilities in the practice of transborder new media art.
The Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT)
A SPARKS online presentation introducing the participation of The Future Past v. Coloniality: Decolonial Media Art Beyond 530 years exhibition in the 2023 Siggraph conference. Moderated by the curator Dr. Liliana Conlisk Gallegos and Kathy Rae Huffman. Ricardo Dominguez and Dr. Amy Sara Carroll will present on the award winning “The Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT)”, included in The Future Past v. Coloniality. Part of the Electronic Disturbance Theatre 2.0/b.a.n.g. tab), “TBT” is a classic example of performance, poetry, and executable code. It was designed to assist disoriented border crossers to find emergency water and safety. First tested in 2009, the project interfaced with the non-profit groups Water Station Inc. and Border Angels, who shared their locations with the TBT team. As transborder new media art pioneers, Dominguez and Carroll will highlight the particular contexts of borders and their engagement with transdisciplinarity, rasquache, nepantlera, and hypertextuality as unique methods and sensibilities in the practice of transborder new media art.
With the goal of advancing the certain decolonial turn, Dr. Machete’s (Liliana Conlisk Gallegos) live, interactive media art production and border rasquache performances generate culturally specific, collective, technocultural creative spaces of production that reconnect Chicana/o/x Mestiza Indigenous wisdom/conocimiento to their ongoing technological and scientific contributions, still currently “overlooked” through the logic of the decaying Eurocentric project of Modernity. As a transfronteriza (perpetual border crosser), to her, the current limited perceptions of what research, media, and technology can be are like a yonke (junkyard), from which pieces are upcycled and repurposed to amplify individual and collective expression, community healing, and social justice. She has organized and curated 14 community-centered, interactive, decolonial, community building, and environmentalist, research-based multimedia artivism and critical intervention performances part of series such as, Technocultura & Resistencia: Otro Mundo es Posible (2018-2019), Our San Bernardino, Nuestro (2018), and The Art of Dreaming: The Power of Turning Trash into Art (2017-2018) exhibited in museums, universities and colleges in the Inland Empire like The Garcia Center for the Arts, California State San Bernardino, San Bernardino Valley College, and the Creating Thirst Academy of Moreno Valley. Liliana Conlisk Gallegos is Associate Professor of Decolonial Media and Communication Studies at California State University San Bernardino. She is a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Committee. She has digital art pieces that have been exhibited at SIGGRAPH, The García Center for the Arts in San Bernardino, Human Resources art museum in Los Angeles, the PAMLA Arts Matter of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, and the Guizhou Provincial Museum in China.
Kathy Rae Huffman is a writer, producer, researcher, lecturer, prolific public speaker and a pioneering curator of video art, media art, online art, interactive art, installation and performance art. She was Chief Curator at the Long Beach Museum of Art in Long Beach, California from 1979 to 1984, where she established LBMA Video as a regional center supporting early video art. From 1984 to 1991, Huffman was Adjunct Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts and curator/producer of The Contemporary Art Television Fund. From 1991 to 1998, Huffman worked as free-lance writer, curator, lecturer, producer and consultant, based in Austria. During this time, she co-founded FACES listserv. After two years from 1998 to 2000 as an Associate Professor of Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, she was the director of Hull Time Based Arts, UK from 2000 to 2002 and the Visual Arts Director at Cornerhouse in Manchester from 2002 – 2008. Since 2008, she has curated major exhibitions for EMAF, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, Transmediale and The Getty.