Compiled by ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, Volume 14: Middle East, explores a region so culturally conflicted that the very term "Middle East" is disputed as a holdover from colonialism.
With the use of delicate materials, Lauren DiCioccio creates soft sculptures of objects disappearing from the everyday, for better or worse. Replicas of newspapers, currency, and plastic bags and bottles are formed out of dainty fabrics tediously hand–embroidered with thread.
Jennie C. Jones' practice resides at the intersection of art history, music history and African-American history, layering the formal language of modern art—abstraction and minimalism—over the conceptual and technical strategies of avant-garde jazz.
This extraordinary omnibus of ten short films by Mexico’s top talents marks the 100 year anniversary of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, when, amid rampant political and social unrest, revolutionaries rose up against the government.