Ila Nicole Sheren
Biographic Data
| ID | 6533091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ila Nicole Sheren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ila Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheren |
| SIGNATURE | SHEREN I N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Standardization, Censorship, Systems, Surveillance
This article analyzes the political implications of artists’ engagement with Google Earth. It considers Internet-based series from Clement Valla, Mishka Henner, Jenny Odell, and Jon Rafman that search for publicly available imagery within Google’s software. Taking into account Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey’s theorization of “evil media” and its power to shape politics on a large scale, I argue that this Google-enabled work constitutes a politi…
The San Diego Chicano Movement and the Origins of Border Art
This article analyzes how the complex and often contradictory immigration politics of the 1970s Chicano movement led to the development of Border Art in the San Diego region. Chicano leader Herman Baca insisted upon the importance of resolving the immigration debate, but cast the question in terms of a global system of inequity. Artists of the movement were forced to mediate between presenting the public with visions of a borderless world and cir…
Portable Borders
After World War II, the concept of borders became unsettled, especially after the rise of subaltern and multicultural studies in the 1980s. Art at the U.S.-Mexico border came to a turning point at the beginning of that decade with the election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Beginning with a political history of the border, with an emphasis on the Chicano movement and its art production, Ila Sheren explores the forces behind the shift in thinkin…
Performing Migration
The San Diego Chicano Movement and the Origins of Border Art
This article analyzes how the complex and often contradictory immigration politics of the 1970s Chicano movement led to the development of Border Art in the San Diego region. Chicano leader Herman Baca insisted upon the importance of resolving the immigration debate, but cast the question in terms of a global system of inequity. Artists of the movement were forced to mediate between presenting the public with visions of a borderless world and cir…
Performing Migration
Portable Borders
After World War II, the concept of borders became unsettled, especially after the rise of subaltern and multicultural studies in the 1980s. Art at the U.S.-Mexico border came to a turning point at the beginning of that decade with the election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Beginning with a political history of the border, with an emphasis on the Chicano movement and its art production, Ila Sheren explores the forces behind the shift in thinkin…
The San Diego Chicano Movement and the Origins of Border Art
This article analyzes how the complex and often contradictory immigration politics of the 1970s Chicano movement led to the development of Border Art in the San Diego region. Chicano leader Herman Baca insisted upon the importance of resolving the immigration debate, but cast the question in terms of a global system of inequity. Artists of the movement were forced to mediate between presenting the public with visions of a borderless world and cir…
Standardization, Censorship, Systems, Surveillance
This article analyzes the political implications of artists’ engagement with Google Earth. It considers Internet-based series from Clement Valla, Mishka Henner, Jenny Odell, and Jon Rafman that search for publicly available imagery within Google’s software. Taking into account Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey’s theorization of “evil media” and its power to shape politics on a large scale, I argue that this Google-enabled work constitutes a politi…
Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work)