Cuauhtémoc Olvera - “‘Cries of Chernobyl’: an Appreciation for Contemporary Art” (poster session) Inspired by the tragedy that consumed the lives of powerplant workers at Chernobyl in 1986, Alexandro Monroy destroyed and pieced together his artwork. He sought to capture the variety of emotion: sadness, anger, fear, and despair that the workers may have felt in their final moments amidst the fallout of the explosion and exposure to lethal amounts of radiation during the cleanup. He feels the incident at Chernobyl was created by negligence and ignorance. The chemical flames that scorched the plant becomes the backdrop for his reassembled artwork. Cuauhtémoc Olvera - “Photojournalism or Digital Art: Digital Manipulation” (session 8) Many photojournalists conceive digital manipulation as an ethical violation. Photographers have been fired and sued for the practice. This presentation seeks to define the line between photojournalism and digital art. After establishing the role of journalism and reviewing digitally manipulated photos it becomes clear that digital manipulation is not an ethical violation of photojournalism. Sometimes, it is even necessary. A journalist exists to tell fair, accurate, and compelling stories. Digital manipulation is a tool that can facilitate effective journalism or hinder it. There is a line. Cuauhtémoc Olvera - “‘Soy Pocho,’ Said in My American Tongue” (session 12) Tertiary generations of Latinx who speak exclusively English feel severed from their Latinidad. Unable to communicate, understand, or experience their culture through the Spanish language, they are not alone in questioning their ethnicity. In 2017 the Pew Research Center found: the number of Spanish speaking households is growing within America, but the percentage of Latinx fluent in Spanish is shrinking. Through the poems “Chingona,” by Leticia, “I am from,” published by the Purple Patch, “For the brown kids who can’t speak Spanish,” by Willy Palomo, “Chicanismo,” by Manuel Gonzales, “What Latinos look like,” by Carlos Andres Gomez, and “8 Confessions of my tongue” and “Carving/ Tuning,” by Noel Quinones we come to understand why Spanish is disappearing. Spanish is not the only thing connecting you to your Latinidad.
Cuauhtémoc Olvera - Debate (session 21)
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