Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface :: October 5 – November 25, 2009 :: Opening Reception: October 15, 2009; 5:00 – 7:00 pm :: gallery@calit2, Atkinson Hall, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA.

Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface brings together works by seven artists who draw upon the cultural landscape of the border region linking Tijuana and San Diego. The works range from digital prints to interactive multimedia. José Ignacio López Ramírez-Gastón’s spatialized sound installation, 24 Speakers and 24 Sound Sources, deployed in the interior of the gallery@calit2, enacts the concept of the democratization of knowledge and ‘reversed migration’ in the use of technology.In the main hallway, Media Womb (pictured above) creates an interactive sound cocoon made of recycled egg cartons – visitors’ movements inside the womb modulate sounds connected to the media’s mis/representations of Tijuana and transborder drug cartels. Media Womb is a collaboration from the artists of the CUBO Project: Giacomo Castagnola, Camilo Ontiveros, Nina Waisman and Felipe Zúñiga, with programming by Marius Schebella. For other works on display, see: http://gallery.calit2.net/.

Thanks to: Ricardo Dominguez, Associate Professor and Hellman Fellow, Visual Arts Department, UCSD.