by zeroone | Jul 25, 2019 | Community Projects, Community Projects Mexico, Cultural Identity, Mexico
Photo by Videocom Pachuca. The Living Attires Project consists of fashionable clothing and accessories designed with elements of Hidalgo’s natural and material heritage. With a focus on the regions of Valle del Mezquital and Comarca Minera Hidalguense, this group was...
by zeroone | Jul 25, 2019 | Community Projects, Community Projects Mexico, Cultural Identity, Mexico
Photo by Videocom Pachuca. Virtual Memory of Mexico is a transmedia project developed using digitalization, 3D printing, and linking printed objects to 360° videos to disseminate the material and immaterial cultural heritage of Mexico, including the natural treasures...
by zeroone | Jul 25, 2019 | Community Projects, Community Projects Mexico, Cultural Identity, Mexico
Photo by Videocom Pachuca. The project Legends and Roots is an interactive cube programmed to recount Mexico’s folkloric tales. The device was created out of laser-cut wooden panels — each panel contains symbolic imagery of a story and light is projected from the...
by zeroone | Jul 25, 2019 | Community Projects, Community Projects Mexico, Cultural Identity, Mexico
Photo by Videocom Pachuca. Mexico is a diverse country that has approximately 62 ethnic groups and in 2012, the indigenous population was greater than 15 million nationwide. Unfortunately, over time different cultures have been disappearing due to several factors:...
by zeroone | Jul 15, 2019 | Blog Mexico, Brittany Ransom, Cultural Identity, Featured, Mexico, ZERO1
At the end of May, I completed my ZERO1 American Arts Incubator exchange in Pachuca, hosted by CITNOVA. I arrived in Mexico City a few days prior to the beginning of my exchange, where I spent five days exploring museums, historical and cultural sites, and learning as...
by Brittany Ransom | Apr 3, 2019 | Blog Mexico, Brittany Ransom, Cultural Identity
Photo courtesy of The Guardian. When you do a Google search of Pachuca, Mexico, one of the first and most prominent images that repeats itself through the algorithmic results is a picture of two hundred homes whose facades collectively make a large mural that bathes...