Contest Transitio_mx

May 28, 2009

The Transitio_mx Festival 01 was planned as an important strategy to promote creation, as long as a way to recognize the best of the artistic production that use the electronic media as support and as a theme of reflection. During this first edition, Imaginaries in Transit: Poetics and Technology, more than 300 proposals of 34 countries were received; proposals that, as the juries said, “explored deeply in cultural contexts, technological inquiries and even social conflicts”.

Among the winning works are Op-Era: Sonic Dimension by Daniela Kutschat and Rejane Cantoni (Brazil), and Memorias by Carolina Esparragoza (Mexico).

The second edition of the Festival, Nomadic Frontiers, received 300 proposals of 36 countries, approximately, and had 3 winners: Transitio Prize, given to Matt Roberts (US) for his work Cycles for Wandering; there were also 3 mentions to artists from Netherlands, Germany and Mexico, that were given to Ricardo Domínguez, Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cárdenas and Jason Najarro (US), for their work Transborder Immigrant Tool; and the Sizigia Prize, given to Brad Kligerman and Jamil Mehdaoui (France), for Identity States.

In order to show to the public the results of the contest 2007, the Central Gallery of Cenart organized an exhibition that had more than 2,500 visitors. The different works of the exhibition reflected a “maturity projected through the distance towards the discipline, the easy in the discourses about the technological, and the assumption that it already exist a particular language of the electronic media”, in words of the artistic director of this Festivals’ edition.