Llamas are amusing. Their faces and glance have a gesture that somehow makes them human. They are elegant, serious, and calm. They also have a very formal posture and they movements are sophisticated. They march as marionettes. In Colombia, the country where I grew up, the llamas are not as popular as in Peru, Ecuador,…
This picture of la bibliothèque nationale de France I took last summer reminds me of Tati’s Playtime a lot. Although the architecture of this library has been criticized by many, I like the meta relationships that the building suggests between form and content.
One of the highest lakes in the Andes is located in the south of Colombia, in the region of Nariño, at 2820 meters over the sea level. The tribe of Quiyasingas who used to live in this area before the Spaniards arrived, called this lake La Cocha, which simply means the lake. La Isla de…
The creation of fanzines has been a prolific youth-made media activity among female and male youth members of, punk, post punk, and club cultures. Fanzines have been very important for the development of youth media entrepreneurial practices, and for the sustainability of youth cultures as well, because they are relatively easy to produce, distribute, and…
The development of late capitalism, the advance of consumer culture, and the increasing proliferation of media technologies in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, created the contexts for a different understanding of youth cultures. During this period of time, female and male youth engaged in productive cultural practices that could be analyzed beyond the narrow CCCS…
The relationships between youth-made media and youth cultures and between youth-made media and mainstream media are diverse and inextricable. All of them occur inside the complex sociocultural and economical system of late capitalist and post-industrial societies. The relationships are historically and geographically specific, and have been in constant flux and transition during the second half…
Every year during the East Austin Studio Tour (E.A.S.T) local artists open their work spaces to the public and organize exhibitions, performances, pop-up shows, and informal parties. For a couple of days the Austin art world, official and underground, become very vibrant and busy. A quick look at the map of E.A.S.T. 2012 could surprise…