Interdisciplinary Experimental Laboratory Curatorial Production Workshop @ Arte Nuevo InteractivA ‘09: International Biennial of the New Arts, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.

The fifth edition of the international biennial exhibition of New Arts, Media and Electronic Art, and Interdisciplinary Experimental Laboratory has initiated activities which will culminate in the inauguration of the exhibit Art with Internet Technology, at the Museo de la Ciudad de Merida on May 28, 2009.

The workshop, Curatorial Production, is offered by Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet, executive curator of the project, and includes among its participants artists, historians, gallery owners and theater directors from the city of Merida.

The Interdisciplinary Experimental Laboratory of Arte Nuevo InteractivA ‘09 has scheduled a series of workshops, among them: Mobility and Distributed Intelligence to be led by artist/academic Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil) at the Universidad Tecnologica Metropolitana (UTM); Audiovisual Narrative for Youths directed by Arlan Londono (Colombia/Canada) and Digital Literature, offered by Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet, both to take place at the Escuela de Creacion Literaria del Centro Estatal de Bellas Artes; Techniques of Contemporary Drawing by Salvadorean artist Mayra Barraza at the Licenciatura de Artes Visuales of the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan (UADY); and the master class Performance in the Americas given by the well known artist Coco Fusco (US/Cuba) at the Escuela Superior de Arte de Yucatan (ESAY).

Arte Nuevo InteractivA: Merida Biennial, Merida, MX is considered a cutting edge project in Mexico, Latin America and the world. It has been presented in UNESCO’s Cultural Portal, the New York Whitney Museum’s Internet ArtPort, and it has been highlighted in newspapers and art and cultural publications such as El Universal (Mexico), ArtMedia (Costa Rica), Art Forum (United States of America), LuxFlux Arte Contemporaneo (Italy), Diario de Yucatan (Mexico), Arte al Limite (Chile), NetArt Review (United States of America), Teknokultura (Puerto Rico), and Fine Art Outline (Australia). In April, 2008 the biennial was presented at the Tate Britain Museum in London during the annual conference of British art historians. The Evento Teorico of the X Havana Biennial (March 31-April 3, 2009), will host the presentation of the curatorial project of Arte Nuevo InteractivA: International Biennial, Merida, MX. This project has marked a break within the processes of artistic and independent curatorial social networks in the Americas.

Arte Nuevo InteractivA ‘09 is organized by the Cartodigital Interdisciplinary Laboratory, a project of the new arts originated in the Centro Yucateco de Escritores, A.C., with the support of the Direccion de Cultura del Ayuntamiento de Merida, the Direccion de Artes Visuales del Instituto de Cultura de Yucatan, the Prince Claus Foundation of The Netherlands, the Universidad Tecnologica, and Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatan (ESAY).

Executive Curator/Academic Director: Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet
Creative Director: Jose Luis Garcia Perez