Faculty Show

Calit2 Theater / Atkinson Hall, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093

The gallery@calit2 presents "Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface" moderated by Eduardo Navas. The show brings together works by seven artists who draw upon the cultural landscape of the border region linking Tijuana and San Diego. While most of the artists are based in Tijuana, two of them - Lea Rudee and Fred Lonidier - are UC San Diego faculty members. The works in "Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface" range from digital prints to interactive multimedia. José Ignacio López Ramírez-Gastón's interactive spatialized sound installation, 24 Speakers and 24 Sound Sources, deployed in the interior of the gallery@calit2, enacts the concept of the democratization of knowledge and 'reversed migration' in the use of technology. In the main hallway, Media Womb creates an interactive sound cocoon made of recycled egg cartons - visitors' movements inside the womb modulate sounds connected to the media's mis/representations of Tijuana and transborder drug cartels. Media Womb is a collaboration from the artists of the CUBO Project: Giacomo Castagnola, Camilo Ontiveros, Nina Waisman and Felipe Zúñiga, with programming by Marius Schebella. Other works on display include former UCSD School of Engineering dean Lea Rudee's photographs documenting the Tijuana River's path across the border, revealing its many roles as drainage creek, city water supply, border crossing obstacle, and preserved salt marsh. UCSD Visual Arts Professor Fred Lonidier's N.A.F.T.A. #15 "Rio Tijuana Bridge: A Tale of Two Globes or Two Tales of a Globe/Puente del Rio Tijuana: Un Cuento de Dos Mundos o Cuentos de Un Mundo" provides a representation of the problematics of "globalization" from the perspective of the organized efforts by workers to make gains in labor rights and conditions of employment.