Winner of Achievement Award
Nino Rodriguez
Brief personal history : Nino Rodriguez is twenty-eight, and he's lived in Los Angeles forever. He
never practiced piano enough, and always played the music no one likes to
hear. Music theory still nags him even after earning an MFA in Film and
Video at UCLA. Since 1988, his short videos, films, and digital media
have shown at the Dallas Video Festival, the International Film Festival
Rotterdam, the Museum of Modern Art, and other places, too. Nino's won
prizes in seven countries, and people said intellectual things about his
work at The Robert Flaherty Seminar. Nino is hunting for a new job, sees
his friends sporadically, and spends his nights wondering if he leads an
artificial life.
About the Work:
Notes on social media and self-exchange. [Please note that this is primarily a theoretical text、 and not " visual art " .]
Winner's Comments:
The DNP award will allow me the time and means to create new work and explore the possibilities of social media which I have only theorized about in "Face Value". In practical terms, I plan to use a portion of the award to finally buy a computer -- I still don't own one, having relied for many years on the kindness of friends, family, and staying afterhours at my place of work.
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