Raul Ferrera-Balanquet
http://www.labcartodigital.org/
was born in Havana, Cuba in 1958. MFA, Multimedia and Video Art Department, University of Iowa, 1992. Ferrera-Balanquet has curated major media arts exhibits in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Cuba and Mexico, among them InteractivA’03 and 01 for the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACAY), Merida, Yucatan. Mexico, 2001 and 2003; “Huellas de un Corazón Sangrante en Tropicana”, MIX-Brazil, for the Museum of Sound and Image, Sao Paulo, Brazil; “Videos That Unmask, Test and Invade the Colonial System”, Program I, Video In, Vancouver B.C., Canada.
Ferrera-Balanquet is the author of the books Aestesis Decolonial Transmoderna Latinx_MX (2019) and Imaginarios Creativos y Soberania Erotica Decolonial (2018), and has edited the critical anthology Andar Erotico Decolonial (2015), Ediciones del Signo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ferrera-Balanquet has exhibited at BE.BOP, Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin, Germany; the Queens Museum of Art, New York; the Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland; Fundacion de Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay; 33ro Festival Internacional Cervantino, Leon, Mexico; Exit Art Gallery, New York City; Alchemy Projects, MAAP Festival, Australia; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago; Video IN, Vancouver B.C., Canada; LACE, Los Angeles, California; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Centro de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona, Spain among others
His writings have been published in Caribbean InTransit, Issue 4, Virgina, USA; Social Text Journal / Periscope, New York; Inter Art Actuel, No. 111, Quebec, Canada; IDEA arts + society, #39, Cluj, Romania; Artecubano, Vol.3-4, Havana, Cuba; SalonKritik, Madrid, Spain; Bienal de La Habana Para leer, Universitat De Valancia, Spain; Public No. 41, Toronto, Canada; Escaner Cultural, Santiago de Chile, Chile; Integracion y Resistencia en la Era Global, Evento Teorico Decima Bienal de La Habana, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba; Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise, Volume 3, Dossier 1, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University; Video en Latinoamerica. Una vision critica, Editorial Brumaria, Madrid; Tierra Adentro, Mexico DF; Forum Idea, 9na Bienal de La Habana 2006; Circus Reader, Melbourne, Australia; Felix: A Journal of Media Arts and Communication, New York; Artpapers, Atlanta; and the Mexican literary magazine Navegaciones Zur.
Executive curator of Arte Nuevo InteractivA: Bienal de las Nuevas Artes, Merida_MX (six editions, 2001-2013), Ferrera-Balanquet has organized numerous art, video and new media exhibitions. Among them Traslocalidades en Movimiento, video art, Centro Cultural de España en El Salvador, San Salvador, 2008; In[ter]vencion, [R]-[R]-[F] Festival, JavaMuseum: Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art, Cologne, Germany, 2004; Huellas de un Corazon Sangrante en Tropicana, MIX-Brasil, Museo de Sonido e Imagen, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1994; Nomads: Plural Identities in Traveling Territories, Randolph Street Galley, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1993.
In addition to a Fulbright Fellowship, Ferrera-Balanquet has been awarded grants from US/Mexico Cultural Fund, Moon Radio Webtv Commission, The Australian Network of Art and Technology, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), The Lyn Blumenthal Video Foundation, and the Noetic Science Institute/Fetzer Institute. His writings have appeared in the Australian based The Media Circus Reader, Artpapers, Radical Teacher, Cinematograph, Felix, the Mexican literary magazine El Juglar, the Miami based Perra! La Revista and the British/German art magazine Guestroom.
Raul Ferrera-Balanquet is curator for
RRF v.2 – Intervención
featuring these artists
1. Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil)
2. Ricardo Baez (Venezuela)
3. Santiago Perez Alfaro (Mexico)
4. Eduardo Nava (El Salvador/USA)
5. Juan Devis and OnRamp Arts (Colombia/USA)
6. Alex Riviera (Peru/USA)
Raul Ferrera-Balanquet participates as an artist in