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Tomas Villalobos Moreno (b. 1983 San Antonio, Texas) received a BFA from CalArts and MFA from UC San Diego. He attended SOMA Summer in Mexico City in 2012. His work has been exhibited at Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia, and the Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles. His writings have been published by Onestar Press and Festina Publicaciones. He is the recipient of UCIRA and UC MEXUS awards.
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Artist Type: Literary Arts: Author/Writer; Media Arts: Filmmaker; Multi-Disciplinary: Multiple Art Forms, Performer and Writer; Performing Arts: Performance Art, Storyteller; Visual Arts: Illustrator, Mixed Media Artist, Photographer, Sculptor; Archivst
Artist Style: Literary: Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction; Music: Americana, Big Band, Bluegrass, Blues, Conjunto, Country, Experimental, Folk, Funk, Gospel, Hip-Hop/Rap, Jazz, Soul/R&B, Tejano, World; Teaching Artist/Instructor: Instruction for Adults, Workshop Presenter; Theatre: Drama; Visual Art: Assemblage, Conceptual, Contemporary, Documentary, Experimental, Formalism, Functional, Minimalism, Narrative/Historical, Photo Realistic, Political, Pop, Sacred/Liturgical Art, Site-Specific, Social Commentary
Artist Statement of Work
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Tomás Villalobos Moreno (b. 1983, San Antonio, Texas) is a multidisciplinary artist whose research based practice examines how systems of language, objects, sound, and archives produce cultural meaning. Through drawing, video, installation, and performance, he recomposes inherited materials and surviving traces into new relationships that reveal how meaning is produced, transmitted, and transformed.
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Multiplication Condensation and Displacement, 2014, 2 channel video - Beginning credits from - Minnie the Moocher 1932 and clips from Betty Boop in Snow-White, 1933 Fleischer Studios. Both videos are Cab Calloway and his band performing and singing. This was the first documented footage using rotoscoping technology invented by the Fleischer brothers. Cab Calloway was shot dancing in front of his band, and then rotoscoped into a popular Betty Boop film animation becoming a ghostly figure singing St James Infirmary Blues aka An Unforuntate Rake a 18th century ballad that has evolved over the course of history. The song narrative is summarized by a young man or woman dying a young age thus a person \"cut down in his/her prime\". Some song lyrics recounts the last memories of the young person chronicling an amoral life gone wrong. The song has been made popular by Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, Blind Willie McTell, The White Stripes , Allen Toussaint and countless others. The song has become un-tracelable due to it\'s many renditions. This video was commissioned by Juan Jose Arreola Casa del Lago, Mexico City as part of the 1st Festival Del Bosque Germinal in 2014: http://www.fdbgerminal.mx/