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Doreen A. Rios

Doreen is a long-established digital curator. She has run a website, https://anti-materia.org/ for about five years. I recommend you have a browse. A particularly interesting model, especially for these times, is ‘eyecandy’, where she invites international artists to curate inspirational content for her site. 

[Anti]materia emerges from the need of consolidating an informative platform as well as an exhibition space that enfolds the artistic creation based on new media performed by Latin American artists, curators and art promoters.

It proposes the creation of an intersective space for debate, home of an intangible archive which solidifies data for it’s consultation. It also focuses in promoting collaborations with international exponents with the idea of making the platform grow in an holistic way as well as creating links between creators.
The future of [Anti]materia relies on the constant addition of temporary exhibitions as well as the creation of a genealogy of artists, curators and art promoters focused in digital art and new media. All together with constant collaborations with diverse international creators.

This project bets on the easy access to information for future investigations surrounding this topic and its infinite possibilities.

Shared Drive Yearbook 2020

Current thinking on design and content

The book will conform to the established patter in terms of size (240mm high, 190mm wide,) style, and layout. Instead of two pages per student there will be three, to allow a better idea of the ‘show’ we are all envisaging. As usual, artists will be featured in alphabetical order, this time in pairs, on facing pages; the artist on the left will also occupy the preceding two pages as a double spread; the artist on the right will occupy the two pages which follow. To ensure the double spreads lie flat, and nothing is lost in the spine of the book, I am thinking we will use wiro binding, with a full Canadian to match the exterior look of the series.

I have my notes on the interviews we conducted before Christmas, and I have access to everyone’s Reflective Journals. I will in due course put together from this material a draft yearbook text for each graduating student, and send them out for your amendment and approval.

Image content will be based on your FMP submission, with a selected image or images from your Main submission to accompany the text, and a double-spread of your Exhibition Proposal. I will discuss the choice a images with each of you individually.

For last year’s book, we established the practice of including pages of student protraits. I have had a conversation with Dave Gibbons about how we will do this under present circumstances. He is going to produce guidance on setting up a backdrop at home, and then he will be in touch to direct you to take the picture, in the hope that we can achieve, with maybe just a little post-production, a consistent look to the images.

Double spread image (student 1) followed by single page with text (student 1) followed by single page with text (student 2) followed by double spread image (student 2), and so on.
Wiro-bound pages lie flat
Full Canadian binding wraps the wiro spine and looks like perfect binding on the shelf.

Shared Drive: Excursion Module

This was our improvised lunar landing, 2015

The crew
The Excursion Module under construction
Fitting the space suit
Last-minute preparation
The descent to the surface (Mission Control view)
Inside the Module (Mission Control view)
One giant leap…
First step (Mission Control view)
The lunar walk…
…in low gravity conditions
Mission accomplished