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Showing posts with label Miami. Show all posts
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Rolando Chang Barrero to Exhibit Recent Paintings at Cuba Libre Exhibit in Miami Nov. 5-25, 2015
“CUBA LIBRE”
November 5-25, 2016
Opening reception: Thursday, November 5, 2015 | 6 P.M.
Blank Canvas Gallery
46 NW 36 Street, Suite 3, Miami, Florida 33127
Reception November 5, 2015 | 6 PM
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46 NW 36 Street, Suite 3, Miami, Florida 33127
Reception November 5, 2015 | 6 PM
RSVP
Facebook Event Page
Blank Canvas Gallery will be hosting the Cuban-American Exhibition “Cuba Libre” for the month of November. Its opening will take place November 5th 2015 at 6pm. Blank Canvas Gallery is located in Wynwood, Miami's most notable art district, at 46 NW 36th Street, Suite #3, Miami, Florida 33127, the gallery will showcase eight contemporary artists: Alejandro Justiz - Damien Cruz- Freddy Villamil - Jose Gonzalez Grillo- Marcy Grosso - Patricio Rodriguez - Raul Hernandez and Rolando Chang Barrero, whose artwork constantly promote freedom of creativity.
“Cuba Libre” will be open to the public until November 25th 2015 and a percentage of the sales for this month will be donated to buy art supply for children in need. We hope to get the attention from the Latin-American public for this Hispanic Heritage month and the support of the residents of south Florida to the Latin-American art.
For more info go to www.wynwoodblankcanvasproject.com
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Rolando Chang Barrero to Exhibit Birds During Art Basel at Club Rum Gallery's Endangered Exhibition
Rolando Chang Barrero Fine Artist
Join me at the VIP reception of the ENDANGERED Exibition.
25 of my paintings will be on displayed along with other leading contemporary artists and photographers...Special viewing of a new piece by Bubbles, the chimpanzee once owned by Michael Jackson!
25 of my paintings will be on displayed along with other leading contemporary artists and photographers...Special viewing of a new piece by Bubbles, the chimpanzee once owned by Michael Jackson!
RSVP is required for the VIP Reception:
Debember 3rd, 2014 |7-9pm
RSVP at lindsey@art4apes.com
Rolando Chang Barrero is a native of South Florida.
Resides in Palm Beach County. Rolando Chang Barrero has a working professional artiststudio in Boynton Beach and his signature fine art gallery in The City of Lake Worth, Florida. You can reach him at ActivistArtistA@gmail.com
Or, Visit the
Rolando Chang Barrero Fine Art Gallery
711 Lucerne Ave.,
Lake Worth, Florida 33460
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Artist Seeks Support from Community To Get Work Shown at Inernational Expo.
My name is Rolando Chang Barrero, I asking for your vote.
I would like to particiapate in the SCOPE Exhibition during Art Basel 2014
which is held in Miami, Florida.
I am an independent artist.
If you would like to see more of work before casting your vote
feel free to view my work at www.ActivistArtistA.com
I appreciate you support!
-Rolando Chang Barrero, B.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Vote for Your Favorite Artist Now
BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® Gin and Russell and Danny Simmons’ Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation continue to partner together to showcase emerging artists. During Artisan Series, a select group of artists will be chosen from online submissions and local art gallery events for a chance to exhibit their work at the Grand Finale event at the SCOPE MIAMI BEACH Art Show. The creators of the top three pieces from the Grand Finale will participate in the BOMBAY SAPPHIRE Artisan Series Mural project in each of their hometowns, and the Grand Finale Winner will receive a solo show at SCOPE NYC in March 2015.
______Français
Voici Voter
Mon nom est Rolando Chang Barrero, je vous demande votre vote.
Je voudrais particiapate à l'Exposition SCOPE pendant Art Basel 2014
qui se tient à Miami, en Floride.
Je suis un artiste indépendant.
Si vous souhaitez voir plus de travail avant votre vote
n'hésitez pas à voir mon travail à www.ActivistArtistA.com
J'apprécie que vous soutenez!
-Rolando Chang Barrero, B.F.A. École de l'Art Institute de Chicago
_______Deutsch
Vote Hier
Mein Name ist Rolando Chang Barrero, ich bat um Ihre Stimme.
Ich möchte während der Art Basel 2014 in der SCOPE Messe particiapate
die in Miami, Florida stattfindet.
Ich bin ein unabhängiger Künstler.
Wenn Sie möchten, um mehr von der Arbeit, bevor die Stimmabgabe zu sehen
fühlen Sie sich frei, um meine Arbeit zu sehen www.ActivistArtistA.com
Ich schätze Sie zu unterstützen!
-Rolando Chang Barrero, B.F.A. Schule des Art Institute of Chicago
____Hindi
यहाँ वोट
मेरा नाम है मैं अपने वोट के लिए पूछ रही है, Rolando चांग Barrero है.
मैं कला बेसल 2014 के दौरान स्कोप प्रदर्शनी में particiapate करना चाहते हैं
जो मियामी, फ्लोरिडा में आयोजित किया जाता है.
मैं एक स्वतंत्र कलाकार हूँ.
आप अपने वोट डालने से पहले काम के और अधिक देखने के लिए चाहते हैं
www.ActivistArtistA.com में मेरे काम को देखने के लिए स्वतंत्र महसूस
मैं आप का समर्थन की सराहना करते हैं!
-Rolando चांग Barrero, B.F.A. शिकागो के कला संस्थान के स्कूल
Friday, May 9, 2014
Art Hive Magazine Announces "Eye Candy" Wiinner!
"We want to congratulate Rolando Chang Barrero for being the WINNER of our "Art Hive Magazine - EYE CANDY - photo contest"! His supportive friends and family pushed him over the edge with a whopping 214 votes total! You'll be able to check out his work in the next issue of Art Hive! We will be announcing another contest soon enough. Thank you to all of our social media friends on our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages for your support!"
ART HIVE MAGAZINE
Rolando Chang Barrero
Rolando Chang Barrero, BFA/MAAT, The School of the Art Institiute of Chicago.
Rolando Chang Barrero resides in West Palm Beach, Florida
Maintains a working art studio in Boynton Beach, Florida.
He is currently working with children on "Windows to the Future"
Maintains a working art studio in Boynton Beach, Florida.
He is currently working with children on "Windows to the Future"
with the Historical Preservation Society of Delray Beach.
Rolando Chang Barrero is the recipient of a Congressional Letter of Commendation. Friday, November 2, 2012
Critical Recording Studio Partnering with ActivistArtistA's SMASH! Concert Series!
Demcember 20th from 7-10 PM
ActivistArtistA Gallery
422 West Industrial Ave.
Boynton Beach, FL 33426
786/521-1199
Critical Recording Studio Partnering with ActivistArtistA's SMASH! Concert Series!
Rolando Chang Barrero, organizer of ActivistArtistA's SMASH! Concert Series, is proud to announce that Critical Recording Studio of Miami will partner with his his Boynton Beach based venue for the next few months leading to February's 2nd Annual KeroWACKED: Multi-Media Festival. While on going sponsorship after February's multi-media festival have not been discussed, he believes that that this is an opportunity to establish an ongoing partnership for future developements.
The BBAD on Thursdays Open Mic Night, which began last August, will be benefiting for this relationship too.
The monthly event, held every 3rd Thursday of the month at the ActivistArtistA Gallery will be awarding 5 hours of studio time at Critical Recording Studio the evenings best music performer. The 3 finalists will then have an opportunity in January to compete for various opportunities, including the popular "Sunday in the Park Concert"which is organized by the City of Boynton Beach's C.R.A., and perform at the 2nd Annual KeroWACKED: Multi-Media Festival on February 17th.
This venture will be a big win for local talent in Palm Beach County as Chris Critic and Jairo Morales of Critical Recording continue to expand the outreach of Miami New Times's Best Recoriding Studio of 2012!
For more information wrtie us at ActivistArtstA@gmail.com
See you all at the next BBAD on Thrudays Open Mic Night on November 15, 2012 at 7 PM!
For More information visit ActivistArtistA.BlogSpot.com
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Sublimation Series
Sublimation: The Art of Birds
Sublimation (psychology)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In psychology, sublimation is a mature type of defence mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are consciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behaviour, possibly converting the initial impulse in the long term. According to Wade and Tavris, sublimation is when displacement"serves a higher cultural or socially useful purpose, as in the creation of art or inventions."[1]. As used by Freud, the word designated the concept of a spiritual redirection of the libido,[2] and has roots in his psychoanalytical theory.
I Know, I'll Have Kidz By Roly Chang Barrero
Psychoanalytic theory
In Freud's classic theory, erotic energy is allowed a limited amount of expression, due to constraints of human society.
Freud considered this defense mechanism the most productive compared to the others that he identified, such as repression, displacement, denial, reaction formation, intellectualisation and projection. Sublimation is the process of transforming libido into "socially useful" achievements, mainly art. Psychoanalysts often refer to sublimation as the only truly successful defense mechanism[citation needed].
I Know, I'll Get a Pet By Roly Chang Barrero
Interpersonal psychoanalysis Harry Stack Sullivan, the pioneer of interpersonal psychoanalysis, defined sublimation as the unwitting substitution of a partial satisfaction with social approval for the pursuit of a direct satisfaction which would be contrary to one's ideals or to the judgment of social censors and other important people who surround one. The substitution might not be quite what we want, but it is the only way that we can get part of our satisfaction and feel secure, too. Sullivan documented that all sublimatory things are more complicated than the direct satisfaction of the needs to which they apply. They entail no disturbance of consciousness, no stopping to think why they must be done or what the expense connected with direct satisfaction would be. In successful sublimation, Sullivan observed extraordinarily efficient handling of a conflict between the need for a satisfaction and the need for security without perturbation of awareness.
I Know, I'll Just Eat By Roly Chang Barrero
Sexual Sublimation
Sexual sublimation, also known as sexual transmutation, is the attempt, especially among some religious traditions, to transform sexual impulses or "sexual energy" into creative energy. In this context, sublimation is the transference of sexual energy, or libido, into a physical act or a different emotion in order to avoid confrontation with the sexual urge, which is itself contrary to the individual's belief or ascribed religious belief. It is based on the idea that "sexual energy" can be used to create a spiritual nature which in turn can create more sensual works, instead of one's sexuality being unleashed "raw."[3][4][5] The classical example inWestern religions is clerical celibacy.
As espoused in the Tanya[citation needed], Hasidic Jewish mysticism views sublimation of the animal soul as an essential task in life, wherein the goal is to transform animalistic and earthy cravings for physical pleasure into holy desires to connect with God.
Different schools of thought describe general sexual urges as carriers of spiritual essence, and have the varied names of vital energy, vital winds (prana), spiritual energy, ojas, shakti, tummo, or kundalini. It is also believed that undergoing sexual sublimation can facilitate a mystical awakening in an individual.[6][7][8]
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I Know, I'll Buy Flowers By Roly Chang Barrero
In fiction
- One of the best known examples in Western literature is in Thomas Mann's novella, Death in Venice, where the protagonist Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous writer, sublimates his desire for an adolescent boy into writing poetry.
- In Psychological Science: Mind, Brain and Behavior, by Michael Gazzaniga and Todd F. Heatherton, a more sinister example is given in which a sadistbecomes a surgeon or a dentist - A direct example of this is in the musical and movie Little Shop of Horrors characterized in the descriptively sadist character of Orin Scrivello who follows his mother's advice to become a dentist, quoting her "You'll find a way/to make your natural tendencies pay (...) Son, be a dentist/People will pay you to be inhumane."
- Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Were None features a villain whose line of work as a judge, dealing out harsh sentences to guilty criminals, had previously permitted him to sublimate his homicidal urges.
I Know, I'll Buy a House By Roly Chang Barrero
I Know, I'll Get Big Toys By Roly Chang Barrero
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
theKwak: A Kwak is born...
Ok, so the "Media Kills" sticker seems to be growing in popularity,
but I felt like it was time for another image, little did I know that ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Arts District welcomes new gallery to open Nov. 11
Click Here For Sun Sentinel Story
ACTIVE ART!
Left, Ron Emanuele and Rolando Chang Barrero,
layout Barrero's art exhibit at his studio, ActivistArtistA Gallery, in
Boynton Beach, on Friday, Oct, 21, 2011
. ActivistArtistA Gallery
is hosting a show on Nov. 11, at 7pm with the work of featured artists
Kim Fay and Robert Catapano. (Matt Dean, FPG / October 21, 2011)
Full Story by Mike Rothman
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
ActivistArtistA:Pre-Opening Exhibition
Pre-Opening September 9th, 2011
Works by: Gina Bentivegna
Organized by Roly Chang
I am a dreamer, a designer, a painter, and an imaginative. Everyday is a new opportunity to create and inspire. I believe that art is not one's ability to paint a perfect portrait, but the ability one has in capturing the mind's eye in a way that no one else can.
My work is not what you would typically find hanging in the average living room next to pastel beach scenes and floral patterns. OH NO NO. Often times my work has a darker edge to it, which I like to contrast with a bright color palate.
I do not sign my pieces, my signature is my brush stroke.
Gina
Works by: Gina Bentivegna
Organized by Roly Chang
I am a dreamer, a designer, a painter, and an imaginative. Everyday is a new opportunity to create and inspire. I believe that art is not one's ability to paint a perfect portrait, but the ability one has in capturing the mind's eye in a way that no one else can.
My work is not what you would typically find hanging in the average living room next to pastel beach scenes and floral patterns. OH NO NO. Often times my work has a darker edge to it, which I like to contrast with a bright color palate.
I do not sign my pieces, my signature is my brush stroke.
Gina
Sunday, October 25, 2009
LAPIDUS INFINITUS by Carlos Betancourt
Miami, FL. October, 2009- Artist Carlos Betancourt most recent exhibit, LAPIDUS INFINITUS, will open at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts in Wynwood, Miami, Florida, during Art Basel Miami Beach. A special celebration will take place Saturday, December 5th, 2009. The exhibition will be on view through February 6th, 2010.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Carlos Alves: Prolific Works
Carlos Alves has been serious about art since he was a child and it shows in his passion for making things out of clay, glass, salvaged artifacts, broken shards and recycled ceramic knick–knacks. Alves has created mosaic murals for walls, floors, driveways, and swimming pools. Alves is now applying his artistry to large public and private artwork projects throughout the US and abroad. Most recently Alves finished the fountain on Miami Beaches’ Lincoln Road, in front of the Colony Theater. He originally tiled the fountain after Hurricane Andrew and when the City of Miami Beach installed a new water feature to the fountain, they called Carlos to embellish the new fountain.
It is a magnificent coral reef theme, one Alves uses throughout a lot of his work. Many of you may recognize his work as you walk thru Art Center
South Florida, Miami Beach City Hall, Miami’s 8th Street Metro Mover
station and the 40’ Sand Castle at the Miami Children’s Museum.
Carlos Betancourt
Artist Carlos Betancourt was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1981 he moved to Miami, Florida.
Mr. Betancourt’s artwork is part of public collections such as the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, the Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno in the Canary Islands, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo, San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas, the Miami Art Museum, the Bass Museum in Miami Beach, the Lowe Art Museum at the Univesity of Miami, and the Museum of Latin American Art in California.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
The MIX Festival 1987-2001
It's strange to find out that your work has been in a awesome festival and you find out totally by accident one day...years later.
My film , transfered to VHS, "La FRUTA" was programed and shown. I have a feeling I know who was responsible; thank you Raul!
Summary
Creator: The Mix Festival
Title: The Mix Collection
Dates: 1987-2001
Abstract: The Mix Collection contains the paper and media files for the Mix: New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film and Video Festival. Started in 1987 by filmmaker Jim Hubbard and novelist Sarah Schulman, Mix is the longest-running experimental film festival and the largest queer film festival in the United States. The Festival has been instrumental in both launching the careers of filmmakers such as Todd Haynes and Sadie Benning and in providing an exhibition space for and preservation of the work of older filmmakers such as Barbara Hammer and James Broughton. Mix was also one of the first film festivals to embrace installations and online artwork to showcase the depth and breadth of queer digital media. The Festival has traditionally been held annually at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City.
Quantity: 175 linear ft. (41 boxes of paper files, 82 boxes of videocassettes)
Call Phrase: MSS 143
Return to top
Historical Note
The Mix Festival, originally known as the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival, was created in 1987 by filmmaker Jim Hubbard and novelist Sarah Schulman. The purpose of the festival was to create an alternative to mainstream gay and lesbian film festivals and to highlight the important contributions that queer filmmakers have made to experimental and avant-garde film practices. The program of the initial festival, which was first held at the Millennium Film Workshop, included a number of both classic and new works by queer filmmakers, including Todd Haynes' very first film, Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud, showcases of films by Barbara Hammer, Roger Jacoby and James Broughton and Joel Singer, and a program containing "Gay Films of the 1890's," all of which demonstrated the various strains of queer representation in film history. The festival was curated by Hubbard and Schulman themselves. A small group of unpaid volunteers helped out during the festival. The following year, the festival was once again held at Millennium, with films by Chantal Akerman, Abigail Child, Tom Chomont, and a panel moderated by Barbara Hammer entitled "Does Radical Content Require Radical Form?".
The third festival was held in 1989 at the Anthology Film Archives, where it has more or less been held ever since. The focus of the 1989 festival was on representations of the AIDS crisis, including several works by experimental filmmakers who had succumbed to AIDS and many others who were fighting the virus themselves (as if to illustrate the tragedy the virus had wrought on the gay arts community, filmmaker and performance artist Jack Smith died the night before the festival opened that year). The fourth festival included a special emphasis on films by and about black gay men, such as Marlon Riggs' Tongues Untied, Isaac Julien's Looking for Langston, and Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason. Jennie Livingston's documentary Paris Is Burning, about drag ball culture in Harlem, was the closing night feature at this festival, and would shortly go on to much wider critical acclaim. In 1991, like many arts organizations around New York, the festival suffered a severe cut in funding from the New York State Council of the Arts. Nevertheless, the festival continued to show films that posited themselves against mainstream representations of homosexuality and AIDS.
After the 1991 festival, Schulman left to spend more time writing. Hubbard, Marguerite Paris and Jerry Tartaglia curated the 1992 festival, recruiting a group of guest curators including Thomas Allen Harris, Cheryl Dunye, Daryl Chin and Tania Cypriano to program 5 of the shows. In 1993, Shari Frilot and Karim Ainouz became the festival directors. Shari continued to direct the festival through 1996. With the change in membership came a change in name - the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival was now known as Mix. The festival also started to focus more on showing films by and reaching out to younger queer filmmakers of color. Additionally, the festival began to depend more on having guest curators create and exhibit programs. In 1993, Mix became the first lesbian and gay film festival to feature video installations with both the 1000 Dreams of Desire "queer co-ed porn extravaganza" at the Ann Street Bookstore, co-curated by Jim Lyons and Christine Vachon, and the Go!Go!Spot! cafe/installation showcase. 1993 also saw the launch of Mix Brasil, an international extension of Mix and the first lesbian and gay film festival in the history of Brazil. Mix 94 was a joint venture with the LOOKOUT Festival, held at both Anthology and the Downtown Community Television Center. Among the innovations that year was the Cyberqueer installation, which showcased the emergence of interactive multimedia and queer digital media.
1995 marked the beginning of the festival's partnership with Free Speech TV, which broadcast activist media on local cable and community access networks. Another highlight of Mix 95 was the 100 Years of Cinema/100 Years of Sodomy tribute program to the centenary of cinema. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Mix 96 expanded to 4 venues, NYU's Cantor Film Center, the Knitting Factory, and Harlem's Victoria 5 Theatre, where Victoria MIX, Harlem's first gay and lesbian film festival showcase, took place. 1997 saw the departure of Shari Frilot as Festival Director, with Rajendra Roy taking her place. This year also saw the development of Mix Mexico, Mexico's first ever gay and lesbian film festival, and a collaboration with the PlanetOut website to present the first ever online queer film festival.
Mix 98 witnessed an increased push toward corporate sponsorship and support from grant foundations. Anie S8 Stanley became Mix's Artistic Director, and the Festival that year showcased films that documented the vogue for reclaiming "antiquated" forms of film technology, such as hand-processed and super 8mm films. The theme of Mix 99 was "Get Lucky," with programming that "gambled" on promising new work by upcoming filmmakers. Memorizing Mix, a gay and lesbian film and video preservation project launched in collaboration with the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS and the Guggenheim Museum, and the HONCHO Blue Movie Midnight Series, were both prominent features of the festival this year. In 2000, the festival instituted screening and programming committees to review the abundance of film submissions. Among the special attractions this year were the ACCESS digital media series and the Innovations Features Series, which showcased full-length feature work by Mix alumni. In 2001, Hubbard, Frilot, and Roy each curated guest programs as part of the Memorizing Mix series, with each showing work that highlighted films from festivals past.
In recent years, Mix has continued its dedication to providing downtown New York with a venue for formally challenging gay and lesbian film and video. The 2002 festival included a showing of James Wentzy's AIDS activism tribute video Fight Back, Fight AIDS: Fifteen Years of ACT-UP on Video. In 2003, Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation had its world premiere at Mix and would eventually foist Caouette into the indie-film spotlight. While the Mix Festival has most often been held every November at the Anthology Film Archives, in 2006 the festival opened at Manhattan's 3LD Art and Technology Center. It is currently directed by Stephen Kent Jusick with co-directors Szu Burgess, Andre Hereford and Kate Huh.
My film , transfered to VHS, "La FRUTA" was programed and shown. I have a feeling I know who was responsible; thank you Raul!
Summary
Creator: The Mix Festival
Title: The Mix Collection
Dates: 1987-2001
Abstract: The Mix Collection contains the paper and media files for the Mix: New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film and Video Festival. Started in 1987 by filmmaker Jim Hubbard and novelist Sarah Schulman, Mix is the longest-running experimental film festival and the largest queer film festival in the United States. The Festival has been instrumental in both launching the careers of filmmakers such as Todd Haynes and Sadie Benning and in providing an exhibition space for and preservation of the work of older filmmakers such as Barbara Hammer and James Broughton. Mix was also one of the first film festivals to embrace installations and online artwork to showcase the depth and breadth of queer digital media. The Festival has traditionally been held annually at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City.
Quantity: 175 linear ft. (41 boxes of paper files, 82 boxes of videocassettes)
Call Phrase: MSS 143
Return to top
Historical Note
The Mix Festival, originally known as the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival, was created in 1987 by filmmaker Jim Hubbard and novelist Sarah Schulman. The purpose of the festival was to create an alternative to mainstream gay and lesbian film festivals and to highlight the important contributions that queer filmmakers have made to experimental and avant-garde film practices. The program of the initial festival, which was first held at the Millennium Film Workshop, included a number of both classic and new works by queer filmmakers, including Todd Haynes' very first film, Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud, showcases of films by Barbara Hammer, Roger Jacoby and James Broughton and Joel Singer, and a program containing "Gay Films of the 1890's," all of which demonstrated the various strains of queer representation in film history. The festival was curated by Hubbard and Schulman themselves. A small group of unpaid volunteers helped out during the festival. The following year, the festival was once again held at Millennium, with films by Chantal Akerman, Abigail Child, Tom Chomont, and a panel moderated by Barbara Hammer entitled "Does Radical Content Require Radical Form?".
The third festival was held in 1989 at the Anthology Film Archives, where it has more or less been held ever since. The focus of the 1989 festival was on representations of the AIDS crisis, including several works by experimental filmmakers who had succumbed to AIDS and many others who were fighting the virus themselves (as if to illustrate the tragedy the virus had wrought on the gay arts community, filmmaker and performance artist Jack Smith died the night before the festival opened that year). The fourth festival included a special emphasis on films by and about black gay men, such as Marlon Riggs' Tongues Untied, Isaac Julien's Looking for Langston, and Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason. Jennie Livingston's documentary Paris Is Burning, about drag ball culture in Harlem, was the closing night feature at this festival, and would shortly go on to much wider critical acclaim. In 1991, like many arts organizations around New York, the festival suffered a severe cut in funding from the New York State Council of the Arts. Nevertheless, the festival continued to show films that posited themselves against mainstream representations of homosexuality and AIDS.
After the 1991 festival, Schulman left to spend more time writing. Hubbard, Marguerite Paris and Jerry Tartaglia curated the 1992 festival, recruiting a group of guest curators including Thomas Allen Harris, Cheryl Dunye, Daryl Chin and Tania Cypriano to program 5 of the shows. In 1993, Shari Frilot and Karim Ainouz became the festival directors. Shari continued to direct the festival through 1996. With the change in membership came a change in name - the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival was now known as Mix. The festival also started to focus more on showing films by and reaching out to younger queer filmmakers of color. Additionally, the festival began to depend more on having guest curators create and exhibit programs. In 1993, Mix became the first lesbian and gay film festival to feature video installations with both the 1000 Dreams of Desire "queer co-ed porn extravaganza" at the Ann Street Bookstore, co-curated by Jim Lyons and Christine Vachon, and the Go!Go!Spot! cafe/installation showcase. 1993 also saw the launch of Mix Brasil, an international extension of Mix and the first lesbian and gay film festival in the history of Brazil. Mix 94 was a joint venture with the LOOKOUT Festival, held at both Anthology and the Downtown Community Television Center. Among the innovations that year was the Cyberqueer installation, which showcased the emergence of interactive multimedia and queer digital media.
1995 marked the beginning of the festival's partnership with Free Speech TV, which broadcast activist media on local cable and community access networks. Another highlight of Mix 95 was the 100 Years of Cinema/100 Years of Sodomy tribute program to the centenary of cinema. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Mix 96 expanded to 4 venues, NYU's Cantor Film Center, the Knitting Factory, and Harlem's Victoria 5 Theatre, where Victoria MIX, Harlem's first gay and lesbian film festival showcase, took place. 1997 saw the departure of Shari Frilot as Festival Director, with Rajendra Roy taking her place. This year also saw the development of Mix Mexico, Mexico's first ever gay and lesbian film festival, and a collaboration with the PlanetOut website to present the first ever online queer film festival.
Mix 98 witnessed an increased push toward corporate sponsorship and support from grant foundations. Anie S8 Stanley became Mix's Artistic Director, and the Festival that year showcased films that documented the vogue for reclaiming "antiquated" forms of film technology, such as hand-processed and super 8mm films. The theme of Mix 99 was "Get Lucky," with programming that "gambled" on promising new work by upcoming filmmakers. Memorizing Mix, a gay and lesbian film and video preservation project launched in collaboration with the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS and the Guggenheim Museum, and the HONCHO Blue Movie Midnight Series, were both prominent features of the festival this year. In 2000, the festival instituted screening and programming committees to review the abundance of film submissions. Among the special attractions this year were the ACCESS digital media series and the Innovations Features Series, which showcased full-length feature work by Mix alumni. In 2001, Hubbard, Frilot, and Roy each curated guest programs as part of the Memorizing Mix series, with each showing work that highlighted films from festivals past.
In recent years, Mix has continued its dedication to providing downtown New York with a venue for formally challenging gay and lesbian film and video. The 2002 festival included a showing of James Wentzy's AIDS activism tribute video Fight Back, Fight AIDS: Fifteen Years of ACT-UP on Video. In 2003, Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation had its world premiere at Mix and would eventually foist Caouette into the indie-film spotlight. While the Mix Festival has most often been held every November at the Anthology Film Archives, in 2006 the festival opened at Manhattan's 3LD Art and Technology Center. It is currently directed by Stephen Kent Jusick with co-directors Szu Burgess, Andre Hereford and Kate Huh.
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