Gustavo Garcia

Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca is an interdisciplinary visual artist/writer and arts educator. His artwork is in the Collections of MoMA New York, LACMA and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. His writing appears in the online speculative fiction journal Strange Horizons, literary journal Bilingual Review and comic/manga magazine Shonen Jump/Aoharu. Gustavo collaborates visually with Detroit Techno producers Underground Resistance and Jeff Mills, Dub producer Francois K, graffiti painter Man One, comic creator Kenny Keil and others. He has created artwork for Apple, Capitol Records, Disney and Warner Bros; and in Japan for Be@rbrick and the Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. Also, Gustavo creates community art experiences for museums and arts organizations. Gustavo holds a BA from Hampshire College, Certificate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Certificates from the Architectural Association London and is currently a MA candidate at California State University Northridge. Gustavo’s website is: http://www.chamanvision.com.

Garcia is eager to present his original work, ROCKIT for the “Contested and Re-visited Spaces and Sites” roundtable. ROCKIT is a speculative installation art intervention on the former Rocketdyne site in Canoga Park, California. I am exploring the site as a space of artistic inspiration, as a site of contested capitalist/military-industrial destruction and as a source of hope for human endeavor.