About Urban Dialogues©

 

Sonia Gil and I started this global art collaboration in 2009, in order to work together with artists around the world and create public art projects. Urban Dialogues©, has been using Internet technologies to create virtual art collaborations.

All Urban Dialogues© artists approaches are distinct, yet complimentary, capturing the contradictions of our individual and collective histories, the present and the future, reflective of today's new era of global engagement and technologies.

 

 

Artist Statement

 

I transitioned from painting to fine arts video and photography when I grew to dislike the stationary easel and became enamored with the freedom technology offered via the digital camera. It allowed me mobility and reinforced a collagist’s mentality that allowed me to continually incorporate, interpret found objects with diverse and contradictory points of view. I co-founded “Urban Dialogues, ” an art collective between nine artists across five continents as a social media experiment. This collaborative effort was exhibited at De Bijl Cultuurhuis Museum, Belgium and the video “Somnambulist Soaring” was screened at the Boston Biennial Project at the 54th Venice Biennial. My work is in collections at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Museum Brasileiro da Escultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Last year I completed my first art video, Šamorín Dream Archeology” during a summer art residency near the Danube River in Šamorín, Slovakia. This video won me a slot in a video exquisite corpse's global experimental project, The Spaces Between Cities, produced by EXcinema. My photo collage, The Language of Love Parts 1&2, will be published this June in Maintenant 9: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing & Art. I have a BFA in painting from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and currently live in Long Island City, NY.