Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Ten Lenses Cuba Project : Josh Rivas

Ten Lenses 

  1. Content: What is the issue, need, idea or opportunity addressed by this project?
The issue I am dealing with is the struggle of identity when your home becomes multicultural and begins to expand to a wider expanse of the world and the struggles to know thyself well enough in a pond full of different colors.

2. Form: What medium and techniques were used to embody the content?
Multimedia. Specifically I want to work with shadows to display the absence of an identity and then fill that absence with textures and memories that create and make up what it means to have an individual identity in a world full of so many other peoples! 

3. Context: What are the circumstances and setting that frame our understanding of this 
project?
This project was brought to life through the activity of acercamiento of Cuba opening its borders. I am exploring the experiences that future younger generations will experience when their Cuban culture has become less known to themselves and their identities have muddy. Also exploring what First Generation Cuban americans experience growing up in a country other then their parent's home.  

4. Stakeholders: Who can affect or be affected by this project?
All first generation people. People who are raised in a country that is not the origins of their own parents. 

5. Audience or communities engaged: For whom and/or with whom was this project created?
Cuban Audiences. First Generation Americans. 

6. Engagement strategies: How were the stakeholders, audiences, and community members engaged in this project? How were the goals of the project advanced?
By viewing this project I hope to evoke my experiences with identity and the absence of identity in the image. The goals of this project advance if I am inspire the audience to begin their own conversation with their identity. 

7. Resources: What tangible or intangible resources were used to pursue the project's goals?
Paper, Textures. Lighting and Shadow. Also Audio depending on what Hannah Cruz my project partner decides on how to connect our pieces in the space. 

8. Goal: What are the project's objectives?
Begin a  conversation with your own identity and make a statement on the complexity of identity. 

9. Outcomes: What were the results and the impact of this project? Did they match the goals?
The project goes up in about 2 months and I am extremely excited to see how it is received by audiences. 

10. Values: What were this project's guiding values and/or core beliefs?
To great discussion with the Cubans who are about to experience a shift in their everyday life with the opening of the borders! 

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