Three interdisciplinary curatorial groups will be in charge of the International Exhibition; their work lies in integrating individual and collective works, as well as actions that include participants of international stature. The conceptual guideline of the curatorship reflects on a main subject: communities in process, processes in community.

The production of the Exhibition is supported by Fundación Televisa, Fundación BBVA Bancomer, Telehit and La Colección Jumex, who are commissioning specific work for Transitio_mx 02. It is this particularity what gives a reciprocal sense to the Festival, by integrating artists both as collaborators and guests; promoting both the production and exhibition of works; and linking together artists, the governmental institution and the private industry (through collectors and foundations) in an artistic, social and cultural project.

Dates: It will be carried out October 12-20th, 2007
Venues: Centro Nacional de las Artes, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Centro de la Imagen, and other alternative venues inside downtown Mexico City.
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Curators: Eusebio Bañuelos, Sarah Minter, Ricardo Rendón and Karla Villegas.

Memory Lab is the starting point of the Free Synthesis project. It will be a space where all processes and actions generated along the curatorship will be documented, in order to explore the various possibilities of permanence and transformation involved in documenting the evanescent act. The objective of this curatorship is to develop an open device that allows a continuous flow of information, making documents of all sorts available to the public: audiovisual, sound and textual. Also, this curatorship intends to promote participation and various actions in the benefit of communitarian practices.

A Laboratorio 060 curatorship: Gabriella Gómez-Mont, Lourdes Morales, Javier Toscano and Daniela Wolf.

This curatorial action redefines common practice, placing art outside of a normalized scenario. Artists are invited to participate in social venues that have a strong symbolic and political connotation. Places that, through the intervention process, disaggregate in the unveiling of its practices, evidencing its possibilities. The works in the project will be activated in various parts of the city. The result of such interventions will be what will nourish the exhibition space.

Curators: Iván Abreu, Alejandra de la Puente, Karla Jasso and Rogelio Sosa.

The curatorial proposal is articulated around artists that conceptually emphasize movement and passage as the appropriate place to evidence the prevailing utilitarian paganism in the use of media. Thus, the works that shape the project can be seen as spacings within the everyday flow, works that, through the technical device, establish intersections between different space-time tonalities: presence, interruption and resonance. The paradox of coming and going between one and the other, together with the simultaneity of the narrative, shows the focal center of the curatorship: to give rise to the impolitical of the gaze as a possibility before the historical depoliticization of technology.

All three curatorships that conform the exhibition program of the Festival are the result of a reflection and discussion seminar over the concept of community, held with the curators for three months and it was directed by José Luis Barrios. A result in which the relations between art and technology are inscribed in a wider aesthetic and social space: the place of the public; but also that which emphasizes the relations between art and life, that of the performative practices of art.

Please go to the Festival's webpage http://transitiomx.net or the Multimedia Center webpage:
http://cmm.cenart.gob.mx

Centro Nacional de las Artes Centro Multimedia Avenida Río Churubusco 79, Colonia Country Club, C. P. 04220, Coyoacán, México, D. F.