Pilgram 2.0

Pilgram 2.0 is a conceptual work that explores the boundaries between data visualization and art made from data collection, creating a link between scientific infovis & data sublimation. Pilgram 1.0 first iteration was made in the recently opened hotspots in Havana. This new iteration will show the invisible structures that tie the U.S. (Miami) and Cuba, monitoring and analyzing the packet data traffic. The naked links iteration will be a reflection of the existing communication infrastructure. We will display how the flow of communication between the two cities and the two countries is taking place now a days. We will document in an immersive and sublimated digital form how this communication might change through the month applying same action (acceding to a .cu domain names) during a specific period of time from different points in US (Miami-Florida). The final outcome will be the visibility of the links and infrastructure, and it will be a metaphor of the change (or not), some of these, expected changes between the two countries that in other cases wouldn’t be possible to see with the naked eye.

Dragan: Interviews on Drawing

Dragan*: Interviews on Drawing takes the form of a monthly, cross-disciplinary online publication that archives interviews and drawings from drawing practitioners in South Florida and beyond. Interviewees will be culled from a variety of fields, including (but not limited to): fine arts, architecture, archaeology, medicine, cognitive science, education, and mathematics. After a one-year Research and Development phase, I will leverage the relationships formed through interviews and cultivating readership both in South Florida and in the international drawing community to organize an international conference on drawing practice in Miami. 

*"To draw,” means to pull, deriving from the Old English dragan, meaning to drag.

The Cuba Project

The Cuba Project (tentatively titled) is a platform for artists, curators and scholars about art from Cuba and the Cuban diaspora. Organized by independent curator/producer Susan Caraballo, it will engage numerous institutions ranging from museums and arts organizations to galleries and artist-run spaces across South Florida including ArtCenter/South Florida, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Dimensions Variable, Fountainhead Studios, Pan American Art Projects, Perez Art Museum Miami, The Screening Room, among others. Each will present thematically linked exhibitions and programs about Cuban contemporary art. This collaborative initiative was born out of several projects that have been in the works by Miami-based curators and producers prior to the December 17, 2014 announcement of the easing of relations between the US and Cuba. These developments have proven the timeliness of this initiative. It will comprise large-scale and smaller exhibitions and events including a symposium. A curatorial committee will oversee the selection of projects. Funding is sought to research and develop the project for implementation in 2017.

Port to Port

Dwelling Projects is an itinerant residency program that develops opportunities for Miami-based practitioners to travel to Latin America and the Caribbean using Miami’s existing and historical trade routes and transient space, supporting exchange between both sites. In 2016, DP’s founder and director, Sofia Bastidas, and artistic director, Guillermo Gomez, will travel to Port of Balboa, Panama, with the intention of developing Port to Port, a traveling research program to Latin American and Caribbean port cities for Miami based researchers, architects, urban planners, and artists. Port to Port research program will facilitate in the research of regional port cities in relation to Port of Miami. Current global cities are being built on Free Trade Zones, with standardized architecture and city planning existing within them. Miami exists to be the next global economic power player, with an expanding port that will change its current global position. It is important to give an opportunity to Miami based artists, practitioners and researchers interested in urban ecologies to expand their current practice abroad, while still connecting and contributing to local issues. After 2017’s first iteration to Port Balboa, residents will return to Miami to present their findings in a public conversation and publication or exhibition.

Alliance of the Southern Triangle

AST (Alliance of Southern Triangle) is an experimental initiative exploring the ramifications of a speculative secession of South Florida from the State of Florida, in light of current and projected State policy relating to climate change. We are an independent collaborative of artists and architects interested in how extrapolative line-drawing through Florida might be a catalyst towards the creative investigation and leveraging of networks, forces, ruptures and flows already in play. 

Miami and the South Florida region of which it is part, frame a unique matrix of land use, trade patterns, borderline legality, immigration porosity, mixed ecologies, contemporary art, real-estate development and various instruments of financial exchange. Viewed globally it represents, perhaps, the shape of things to come. 

AST aims to be a platform where geospatial, political, urban, ecological, cultural and artistic possibilities, in light of climate change and political volatility, can be reimagined, visualized, and materialized in ways that leverage the dynamics already in process. 

Through collaborative efforts we hope to develop artistic strategies and practices that envision alternative trajectories for Miami and the South Florida region in a global context; as well as speculate on the possibilities for what an art practice might become in this historical moment.

LOT

LOT is a process-driven and research-based project located in Miami, FL that investigates the legacies and possibilities of the fenced vacant lot. Co-curated by Erin Elder and Felecia Carlisle, the project includes 3-5 artists in an address of these unique spaces with temporary site interventions as one of several possible outcomes.

Miami is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. It is home to a wealthy paradox of influences, histories, personas, agendas, fantasies, exploits, economies, languages, cultures, and dreams. LOT highlights the city’s vacant lots as a point of departure for a considered, complex, and creative investigation of current trends in development, land use, speculation, space, and power.