I was born in LA, grew up in Tijuana and now live in San Diego where I study and teach Visual Arts and Writing at UCSD. I divide my time between San Diego/Tijuana and the Imperial Valley/Mexicali working as part of the bi-national art group cog•nate collective on projects that analyze social, economic and cultural flows across the border.
LOCATION: Tijuana / San Diego
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/misael.g.diaz
WHAT INSPIRES ME: Popular culture, “low-brow” aesthetics, traveling, reading, satisfying guilty pleasures
FAVORITE PLACE TO GET AWAY IN MY AREA: The “cine bola” (CECUT) in Tijuana.
FAVORITE WRITERS: Carlos Monsivais, Thomas Pynchon, Violeta Parra, Charles Bukowski, Nicanor Parra.
ARTIST/CREATIVE YOU’D WANT TO HAVE LUNCH WITH: If I had a time machine: Marcel Duchamp. Since I don’t (yet): Hans Haacke.
MOST OVER-HYPED ARTIST: Banksy
PERFECT SOUNDTRACK FOR WRITING: Velvet Underground, TV on the Radio, Café Tacvba, El Guincho, Radiohead.
WHY I LOVE WHERE I LIVE: Plethora of popular culture and “low-brow” aesthetics, plus plenty of border food (e.g. Tostilocos, Carne Asada Fries).
ART YOU MAKE (IF YOU MAKE ANY...): Photographic, conceptual, public, transnational. See cognatecollective.tumblr.com.
RSS: KCET Artbound
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Architecture/ Design
California becomes an international export by redefining the concept of city and home.
Community Arts
Through workshops, education and placed based projects, art is the connective tissue of a community.
Cultural Politics
Funding bubbles, cultural deserts and the politics of access to the arts in the 21st century.
Film & Media Arts
At the shadow of the entertainment industry, video artists and underground filmmakers take a stand.
Literature
Noir, sunshine and dystopia create a multi-ethnic narrative that is read, watched and admired around the globe.
Multi-Disciplinary
Multi-hyphenate works that combine disciplines, remix dogmas, and reinvent the wheel.
Music
A dialogue between cultures, the music of our state serves up the California dream like no other artform.
Visual Arts
Breaking away from the European and New York vanguard, California reinvents the art world.
