false false 2009-09-15T13:57:25-04:00 Post-screening conversation moderated by UCSD graduate student Eduardo Navas in the department of Art and Media History. The panel includes Director Alex Rivera, UCSD Assistant Professor of Political Science Marisa Abrajano, and Teddy Cruz, Associate Professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD. true false false 378 false <br><b>Alex Rivera</b> is a New York based digital media artist and filmmaker. His first feature film, SLEEP DEALER premiered at Sundance 2008, and won two awards, including the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Rivera is a Sundance Fellow and a Rockefeller Fellow. His work, which addresses concerns of the Latino community through a language of humor, satire, and metaphor, has also been screened at The Berlin International Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, The Guggenheim Museum, PBS, Telluride, and other international venues. <br></br> <strong>Marisa Abrajano </strong> is an assistant professor in the department of political science at the University of California, San Diego. She received her Ph.D. in politics from New York University in 2005. Her research interests are in American politics, particularly in the areas of campaigns, mass electoral behavior, Latino politics, and racial/ethnic politics. She is the author of two forthcoming books: Campaigning to the New American Electorate: Television Advertising to Latinos (Stanford University Press) and New Faces, New Voices: The Hispanic Electorate in America (with R. Michael Alvarez) published by Princeton University Press. Her other work has been published in The Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Research and Political Behavior.</br> <br><strong>Teddy Cruz</strong> was born in Guatemala City. After earning the Rome Prize in Architecture and obtaining a MDesS-1997 at the Harvard GSD, he established his practice in San Diego, California in 2000. He has been recognized internationally for his urban research of the Tijuana-San Diego border, and in collaboration with community-based nonprofit organizations such as Casa Familiar, for his work on housing and its relationship to an urban policy more inclusive of social and cultural programs for the city. In 2004-05 he was the first recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize, by the Canadian Center of Architecture and the London School of Economics, and in 2008 he was selected to represent the US in the Venice Architecture Biennial. He is currently an associate professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego.</br> <br><strong>Eduardo Navas</strong>researches the crossover of art, culture, and media. His production includes art & media projects, critical texts, and curatorial projects. He has presented and lectured about his work and research in various places throughout the Americas and Europe.Navas collaborates with artists and institutions in various countries to organize events and develop new forms of publication. He has taught art and media theory at various colleges and universities in the United States, including Otis College of Art And Design and San Diego State University in California, as well as Pennsylvania State University in Pennsylvania. Navas is finishing his Ph.D. in the Department of Art and Media History, Theory and Criticism at the University of California in San Diego. He currently researches the history of Remix to develop a theory and better understand the principles of remix culture. To learn more about his research, please visit Remix Theory at http://remixtheory.net 2009-11-19T21:30:00-05:00 19 11 2009 false false 0 Sleep Dealer Free 2009-11-02T20:10:38-05:00 7 0