Presented Tuesdays:
ArtDirt presents: Rabinal Achi/ZapatistaPortAction
January 28 - March 4, 1997 2:00-3:00 pm
for PORT: Navigating Digital Culture
Organized by a r t n e t w e b at the MIT List Visual Arts Center
PORT is an exhibition of networked digital worlds on the internet
organized by artnetweb. Scheduled, time-based Internet projects by
Individuals and groups will be projected into the physical gallery
space and accessible over the Internet during the duration of the
exhibition.
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Production credits
Production and Artistic Direction: Ron Rocco and Ricardo Dominguez
Quiche Achi voice: Ricardo Dominguez
Hobtoh Rabinal-Rahaual voice: Galinsky
Servant's voice: Ron Rocco
with technical assistance from: Dan Melmid Jeff Goperts and Pseudo Studios,
images from: Thomas Iskandar, Zhang ga, The Thing/nyc, Ron Rocco and the
National Committee for Democracy in Mexico.
special thanks to: Gerry Hovagimyan
original text translation*: Nathaniel Tarn
* The original, unabridged Mayan text from which this work was generated can be found in the publication:
Shaking the Pumpkin edited by Jerome Rothenberg and published by Doubleday Anchor Publications