cheLA
Description
cheLA is a non-profit regional project dedicated to the evolution
of a vigorous and enduring technological art environment in Latin America
through research and experimentation in art, technology, and society. cheLA
is committed to enabling a diversity of perspectives, decentralized directions,
and independent voices representative of all segments of society and attentive
to a plurality of regional cultural needs. Central to this mission is the
facilitation of dialogues, convergences, and collaborations between artists,
scientists, and community at large.
In its functioning cheLA
aspires to fill a critical institutional vacuum affecting the technological
arts in Latin America through the establishment of a comprehensive and capable
research and experimentation facility and the support of collaborative cross-disciplinary
exploratory projects. Through its collaboration with Fundación ExACT (Buenos
Aires) and a generous contribution from Experimental Studios Incorporated
(Delaware, USA) cheLA has acquired the use of a building complex with the
capacity to accommodate multiple research labs, construction workshops, performance
& installation spaces, a library, classrooms, offices, and very importantly,
living facilities for multiple researchers in residence. These facilities
totaling 5,000 square meters are an asset unique in all of Latin America.
All of the activities of cheLA
are organized around a series of transmuting and overlapping workshops. These
workshops are designed as aesthetic, technological, and theoretical areas
of concentration and are structured to promote constant evolution and to effect
change in each other. The areas' central activities are activated and driven
through fully funded research and experimentation residencies. In selecting
participating trans-disciplinary researchers in residence priority is placed
on collaborative projects merging artistic, scientific, and social interests.
Projects are also selected for their potential to interact with one another
and with relevant community sectors (local and/or regional). Researchers from
any relevant discipline (arts, sciences, humanities, engineering) from anywhere
in Latin America are eligible for these residences. Researchers from other
regions working on projects relevant to Latin America are also invited to
submit proposals.
Information: info.cheLA@digitalcultures.ucla.edu
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cheLA