Technology and Craft is the fourth part of our Starting Conversations: Acequia Aqui series. As part of our partnership with The Paseo Project (Taos, NM), this program is celebrating Paseo Project’s recent publication: Acequia Aqui: Water, Community and Creativity. This booklet highlights selections from the Acequia Aqui project that took place between 2018 and 2020. It’s an artistic and community driven project that aims to give voice to the historic acequias of Taos to illuminate the importance of this vital resource and cultural wellspring. You can view a digital version of this booklet on ISSU.
Our guests, Morgan Barnard and Juanita Lavadie have come together to talk about how their work addresses acequia culture and engagement through new media technology and craft traditions.
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Morgan Barnard is a digital artist and designer working in the areas of public art, interactive media, immersive installations and live cinema. His studio, located in the high desert of New Mexico is focused on creating work that combines interactivity, data-visualisation, real-time systems and experimental digital techniques to create unique experiences for audiences.
Juanita Lavadie is an educator, artist, acequiera and historian. A retired public school teacher, oral historian, and graphic and fiber artist, Lavadie’s creative and cultural interests are basically all keyed to the acequia system that supports the land, water and inhabitants of Northern New Mexico in general, and the traditional Hispano and indigenous cultures in particular.
THIS PROGRAM WAS CREATED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PASEO PROJECT
The Paseo Project works to transform art through community and community through art.