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Fabian Wagmister
email: fabian at ucla . edu
FABIAN WAGMISTER (Principal Investigator) is a filmmaker and digital media artist. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, and the creator of the Hypermedia Studio and the Lab for New Media.
Professor Wagmister’s works and writings combine a strong ideological voice with explorations into the protean media structures emerging from digital technologies. Recent international exhibitions include Behind the Bars, a confrontational interactive environment about Latin America's “desaparecidos”; Time&Time Again..., with Lynn Hershman, a distributed interactive media environment exploring technological dependency and cultural identity; and two, three, many Guevaras, which utilizes an interpretative search engine to formulate an open environment for the examination of Ernesto Che Guevara’s legacy. This fluid multimedia documentary has shown in Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, San Jose (Costa Rica), Santiago and Havana.
Born and raised in Argentina, Professor Wagmister maintains active collaboration with artists and theorists in Latin America and frequently lectures and presents his work throughout the continent. He contributes to regional efforts such as the Institute of Cultural Identity, Art, and Technology (ICAT) in Costa Rica and recently received funding from private foundations to create an experimental laboratory in Buenos Aires, Taller Performático Tecnológico (TaPeTe), to explore the intersection of performance and technology. In Argentina, he also founded and directs the Centro Hipermediatico Experimental Latinoamericano (cheLA), housed in a 54,000 sq. ft. industrial facility in Buenos Aires, which fosters arts and technology research and production through events, residencies, co-production, and sustained technological development. cheLA has formal partnerships with engineering programs at the University of Buenos Aires, the University of Cordoba, ICAT in Costa Rica, and the Centro Multimedia of Mexico.
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