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As part of 516 ARTS "Digital Latin America" exhibition, special guest keynote speaker, Pablo Helguera (Mexico), Director of Adult and Academic programs at the Museum of Modern Art, speaks about artists bridging the self and the others through virtual and real space.
He says "Henry David Thoreau famously wrote,' I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.' Thoreau was arguably referencing the equal importance of being with the self, enacting conversation with another and being an integral member of society."
While negotiating the self with the others is not any new issue in artistic practice, today's artists face an interconnected world that can produce both immediacy and alienation. In Latin America in particular, a vast continent that is held together by language and strong cultural links, its geography poses great challenges of communication and interconnectedness.
This keynote discusses the related realities and philosophical and practical dilemmas for artists working today in the context of Latin America."
As part of 516 ARTS "Digital Latin America" exhibition, special guest keynote speaker, Pablo Helguera (Mexico), Director of Adult and Academic programs at the Museum of Modern Art, speaks about artists bridging the self and the others through virtual and real space.
He says "Henry David Thoreau famously wrote,' I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.' Thoreau was arguably referencing the equal importance of being with the self, enacting conversation with another and being an integral member of society."
While negotiating the self with the others is not any new issue in artistic practice, today's artists face an interconnected world that can produce both immediacy and alienation. In Latin America in particular, a vast continent that is held together by language and strong cultural links, its geography poses great challenges of communication and interconnectedness.
This keynote discusses the related realities and philosophical and practical dilemmas for artists working today in the context of Latin America."
