symposium in two sections, where the discussions variegate among art and politic, migrations, globalization, media and decentralization with some of the artists invited to Transitio, critics and international thinkers. The other parr, oriented to the practice, proposed a workshop on open source programs and their usage for multimedia editing (from video to text), filmmaking and even “open source tools for urban communication”, realized by Graffiti Research Lab.
paradigm (it’s necessary). The official push to new media and technology seems finalized to create a fresh image, young and new, parallel to the demands of the new Mexican governments (that conquered the power in 2000 after seventy years of Partito Revolucionario Institucional). The usage of new technologies seems kind of empty, a bla bla bla of neoavant-garde notions mixed to some citations ad hoc of the strong philosophers, as Deleuze, Guattari, Augé and so on, and words of the new media ambit (interaction, dissemination, globalized media ).
Short parenthesis dedicated to the confrontation with the national
93