San Diego Electronic Disturbance
San Diego has always had a reputation as a town for leisure. Its lovely beaches, and endlessly fascinating tide pools, are a draw for people from all over the world. A weekend in the city at one of the top San Diego hotels can change a life for the better.
Besides all the wonderful things that the ocean and the restaurants can offer, there are also some very daring and innovative artists living and working here. Ricardo Dominguez , who’s still on the faculty at UCSD, has a cv as impressive as it gets. He’s been working for over 20 years in the digital and public realm, and his artistic thrust has been to bridge the two together.
Inspired by the work of the EZLN in Chiapas, he saw correspondences with his own computer-based works and their savvy use of the internet. Utilizing many of their techniques, and borrowing freely from their rhetoric, he has been making very interesting projects that have influence in the global community. He is widely considered to be a pioneer in the digital realm, and it’s one that’s becoming more populated every day by artists who are looking for ways of bridging the gap between the personal and the electronic.
Art and life are closer than they appear, and also worlds apart, but always more complex than a surface can suggest.
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