Mexican American Art Since 1848 (MAAS1848)

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• Mark Dion - Press Coverage

  title Mark Dion - Press Coverage 

  description Dan Irwin interviews inSITE2000 artist Mark Dion. With the creation of a functioning bird blind located in the Tijuana River Estuary Reserve, Mark Dion's project Blind/Hide for inSITE2000 invited investigation and closer examination not only of the biodiversity of the site but also of the less apparent signs of cultural confluence specific to the location. Camouflaged to blend into the surrounding terrain the project was sited within a view of the border. The 8 x 16 foot bird blind structure housed photographs, charts, and books on the 370 bird species found at the reserve, along with binoculars and related research tools. As Dion himself said, he wanted to make a project that illustrated the complicated elements of this particular locale. The viewer was invited to become an observer of the more subtle environmental and political issues impacting the reserve, while bearing witness to how birds and wildlife have learned to conform and adapt. --inSITE2000  Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art  Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)  This sound recording was extracted from a CD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 254, CD 00-63)  Tijuana River Estuary (Calif.)  Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge (Calif.)  [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. 

  artist/creator Dion, Mark 

  subject Blinds (Shelters)  Boundaries  Education  San Diego (Calif.)  Bird Watching  Birds  Political Art  Environmental Protection  Ecological Art  Border Art  Nature  Natural History  Sound Recordings  Mexican-American Border Region  Landscapes (Environments)  Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)  Nature Centers  Sculpture (Visual Work)  Dion, Mark (American Sculptor And Installation Artist, Born 1961)  Architecture (Object Genre)  Installations (Visual Works)  Insite2000 

  contributor Calisphere 
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  Working Process

  title Working Process 

  description Artists (Anna O'Cain and Richard Keely) and curators (Tobias Ostrander) introduce inSITE2000 to a group of college and high school art students who create an exhibition of their own work.  Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art  Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)  This video file was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 257, DVD 00-56)  [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. 

  artist/creator Unknown 

  subject Students  Documentaries  Artists  Education  Interviews  Dion, Mark (American Sculptor And Installation Artist, Born 1961)  Mexican-American Border Region  School Field Trips  Teachers  Insite2000  Soares, Valeska (Brazilian Installation Artist, Born 1957)  Border Art  Salvo, Roman De (American Artist, Born 1965) 

  contributor Calisphere