Join us for a virtual artist talk with exhibiting artist Jorge Lozano, in conversation with local artists John Isaiah Edward Hill and Jessica A. Rodríguez!
May 1st, 2021. 4-6pm EST
View the recorded talk below:
About the Speakers
Jorge Lozano has been working as a film and video artist for the last 20 years and has achieved national and international recognition. His fiction films have been exhibited at the Toronto International Film Festival and at the Sundance Film Festival amongst others. His experimental work has been exhibited at many international festivals and galleries. He has expanded his practice to the organization of many cultural and art events, the creation of aluCine, Toronto Latin Media Festival, and facilitating self-representations video workshops for marginalized Latin and non-Latin youth in Canada since 1991, Colombia 2005-2009, and Venezuela 2005.
Jessica A. Rodríguez is a multimedia artist, designer and researcher. She is currently completing a doctorate program in Communications, New Media, & Cultural Studies at McMaster University. Her practice and research projects focus on audiovisual practices such as visual music, electronic literature, video experimentation, sound art, visualization/sonification, live coding, among others, collaborating with composers, writers, designers, and other visual artists. She is co-founder of andamio.in, a collaboration platform that uses digital and analogue technologies to explore with text, visuals, and audio. She is also part of RGGTRN, a collective that engages in algorithmic dance music and audiovisual improvisation informed by Latinx experiences
John Isaiah Edward Hill is an Oneida artist and poet from Hamilton, Ontario. He holds a Honours Bachelor’s degree in Indigenous Studies and English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University. His favourite mediums are sound, film, collage, and the zine. His work deals with themes related to his Haudenosaunee heritage, queer identity, and his working class roots. John uses he and they pronouns.
This program is co-presented by Factory Media Centre and the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre
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