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April 06, 2007

Phantasmagoria: spectres of absence- is a new exhibition taking place at the Luis Angel Arango Library in Bogotá

Alejandro Tamayo is an artist-engineer and a teacher working in the intersections of design, art and new technologies in Colombia. He is the director of the v*i*d*a lab, part of the Aesthetics Department at the Universidad Javeriana, in Bogotá. Regine at We-Make-Money-Not-Art posted an interview with him that alone would be exciting enough. Regine has convinced Alejandro to post news about the goings on in Colombian electronic media art and design. Alejandro's first post is about Phantasmagoria: spectres of absence a new exhibition taking place at the Luis Angel Arango Library in Bogotá. His descriptions of the work are compelling and fill me with joy. They provide a counterbalance to the recent reportage from the LA Times.

Alejandro will quickly become an important voice. His is not the only one from Colombia in new media. La Universidad de los Andes also in Bogotá has been experimenting with Processing since 2003, and has a thriving multi-media creation post-graduate degree program.

Posted by SWEAT at April 6, 2007 05:58 PM