suzanne sbarge
V.21 No.33 | 8/16/2012
Art News
ISEA, USEA, We All See Emergent Art Forms in Burque
An international symposium and its underground offshoot
Cultural geographer Ronald Horvath wasn’t thinking of a specific place when he conjured the concept of “machine wilderness” in the ’60s. It helped him describe what he saw taking place across the American Southwest, as technology gradually transfigured the feral landscape. But the phrase describes New Mexico well. And it’s the driving force behind this year’s International Symposium on Electronic Art, taking place here in Albuquerque in September.
