Cultural Diffusion in Mexico

Artistic interventions of the Mexican student movement. ‘Leverage’ is an inquiry into the work of Artistas Aliados, the artistic branch of the #YoSoy132 student movement that burst out in Mexico on May 11th, 2012. Excluded from the usual circuits of aesthetic and economic value production, the work of Artistas Aliados provides an opportunity to explore contemporary geopolitics of value from a position of relative exteriority. The author departs from the thesis that neoliberalism has appropriated the formal dimension of our imaginations as a result of its global hegemony over economics and mass media. Neoliberalism's colonization of form mobilizes unconscious affective content to the advantage of capital, which Artistas Aliados strive to leverage to their own advantage. Reference: Aroch-Fugellie, P. (2013). Leverage: Artistic interventions of the Mexican student movement. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 22(4), 353–373. http://www.red-redial.net/mobile/recursos...

A Study of the Relationship Between Internet Diffusion and Culture Examines the relationship between the cultural dimensions proposed by Hofstede and the Internet adoption rate of nations. Data from sixty-two countries are used to establish a regression model and the empirical results show that cultural traits such as "uncertainty avoidance " and "masculinity " index of a nation are significantly related to the nation's Internet dijfusion rate. Reference: Nath, Ravi and Murthy, N.R. Vasudeva (2004) "A Study of the Relationship Between Internet Diffusion and Culture," Journal of International Information Management: Vol. 13: Iss. 2, Article 5.   Retrieved from https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/jiim/vol13/iss2/5

FORMACIÓN DE EMPRESAS ARTÍSTICAS EN LA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CHIHUAHUA-MÉXICO Intervención educativa realizada en la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, para capacitar a alumnos y/o egresados de licenciaturas en artes sobre temas relacionados con el emprendimiento, las cuales presentan una pertinencia laboral baja, debido tanto al contexto de la ciudad de Chihuahua como a las condiciones mismas de los programas de estudio que preparan a los estudiantes para un medio laboral cerrado a la contratación de jóvenes, así como el gubernamental y de docencia artística. A partir del análisis de encuestas, literatura especializada, contenidos de los programas educativos y observación directa, se crea un curso en línea para auxiliar a estudiantes y egresados en su autoformación en temas de administración, mercadotecnia y capital humano; debido al poco impacto de este, se preparan cursos presenciales para que los estudiantes puedan crear proyectos productivos y accede...

Reflecting on Basic Art Education in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Implications for Higher Education The basic art education in Aguascalientes, Mexico, faces a significant number of challenges that must be overcome and problems that must be addressed. Among other challenges, the public education system must train a high number of teachers who lack professional qualifications. The system also has to promote the training of its whole teaching staff and satisfy the demand for sufficient pedagogical materials. Thus, the author proposes that higher education must actively get involved with basic education by implementing remedial programs for unqualified teachers. It also must propose continuous education programs to foster a better preparation of the teaching staff and develop research projects that generate knowledge to promote more comprehensive and better-quality art education. The contributions made to the improvement of art education will impact on more sensitive, creative and harmonio...

An Investigation of Fine Arts Students' Attitudes towards Art Education Based on Some Variables Author: Saygi Gerçeker, Ceren The purpose of the present study is to examine fine arts students' attitudes towards art education based on some variables. The data were collected through the "Attitude Scale towards Art Education" developed by Ayaydin and Kurtuldu and "Personal Information Form" developed by the researcher. Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of the 32-item-scale is 0.90. The research consists of 234 students in the Art Teaching and Music Education Department, Faculty of Education, Fine Arts Education, Adnan Menderes University in 2017-2018 academic year. In the study, a descriptive screening model was used. Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS Version 21. Since the data were not normally distributed, differences between the groups were analyzed with the Mann-Whitney U test for comparison of 2 groups and the Kruskal-Wal...

The relevance of NTICs in the strengthening of a museum/destination from a tourism perspective. A hermeneutics perspective in a contempory comunicational setting. This theoretical article attempts to set out a range of notions and perspectives regarding the sigificance of culture and NTICs. It aims to broaden the scope and work of museums, allowing them to be an integral part of the tourist destination, as well as increasing the importance of cultural tourism in any given destination or territory. It is put forward that cultural difussion and diversification strengthens identity and contributes to social cohesion, which when well conceived, is capable of bringing about the joining of forces over objectives of mutual benefit for a particular place. We refer to the diverse nature of culturalexperience as a great social and economic opportunity for tourism. All of the above is alalysed from a socio-hermeneutic perspective, with a focus on virtual communication and interaction. [ABSTRA...

Arte y cultura masónica en el México barroco / Art and Masonic culture in the Baroque Mexico Fernández, Martha Despite its importance, Freemasonry in the art of the Baroque Mexico is absent in historiography, though there are enough elements to believe that despite all the obstacles faced, developments in art and society can be linked to Masonic culture since the end of the seventeenth century and early eighteenth century. Masonic concepts such as the Great architect of the universe, the representation of the Saints crowned, the presence of iconographic symbols such as the square, compass and Plumb, as well as the portrait of a novohispano architect as a master mason, lead us to explore that possibility. All of this considered within a social and artistic context must take into account the trade crisis and the existence of a titled Brotherhood of our Lady of joys and Santos architects. In this article I present advancements of a broader investigation that I'm developing ...

Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920-1950 : The Cosmic Generation Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920–1950 tells the story of the arts explosion that launched at the end of the Mexican revolution, when composers, choreographers, and muralists had produced state-sponsored works in wide public spaces. The book assesses how the “cosmic generation” in Mexico connected the nation-body and the dancer's body in artistic movements between 1920 and 1950. It first discusses the role of dance in particular, the convergences of composers and visual artists in dance productions, and the allegorical relationship between the dancer's body and the nation-body in state-sponsored performances. The arts were of critical import in times of political and social transition, and the dynamic between the dancer's body and the national body shifted as the government stance had also shifted. Second, this book examines more deeply the involvement of US artists and patrons in this Mexican arts mo...

Is This Art? An Experimental Study on Visitors’ Judgement of Contemporary Art This is a journal article that talks about the judgement of contemporary art, you can found it here . If you want to read other articles this web page is fantastic. ‘Is this art?’ is a question often raised by museum visitors when encountering contemporary artworks. But what factors influence museum visitors’ judgement on contemporary art? To what extent do visitors’ prior knowledge, socio-demographic background, emotional experiences, and specific aspects of the artwork itself, influence their judgements? In the context of the Swiss National research project eMotion – Mapping Museum Experience, we investigated these questions experimentally. The site specific intervention created by the renown artist Nedko Solakov in the St. Gallen Fine Arts Museum allowed us to conduct such a concrete experiment. We interpreted the findings by statistical analyses of the data gathered from entry and exit que...

Why We Need Arts Education Gayle B. Roege, Kyung Hee Kim This review synthesizes previous research findings regarding the benefits of arts education, particularly in the visual arts, to suggest future educational directions in the United States. It recognizes the current trend in public education emphasizing accountability, which has resulted in diminishing attention to arts education. Participation in arts education may not directly result in improved achievement on standardized tests; however, arts education benefits students in several critical ways, improving students' mental health, self-confidence, and life skills. Arts education also helps foster creativity, and sustains the natural creativity of young children. Suggestions for future research directions in education are discussed. Reference:    Roege, G. B., Kim. K. H. (2013). Why we needs art education. EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF THE ARTS, 31(2). 121-130. Retrieved from https://eds-b-ebscohost-com....

THE IMPACT OF NAFTA ON THE MEXICAN CULTURE II. THE IMPACT OF NAFTA ON THE MEXICAN CULTURE y X Free trade comes with foreign investment into the country, more product options for the consumer and economies of scale, nevertheless free trade also produces product and standard harmonization. This standardization in turn affects the cultural dimensions of the countries concerned. Although the term harmonization normally applies to the production of goods, the question of standards is also applicable to the service sector, which includes the cultural industry. In this context a culture can be invaded due to free trade. A certain culture may not be capable of withstanding the intrusive effects of another culture that monopolizes the means of cultural diffusion and penetration within a country. History is full of examples of cultures that have disappeared, either as a result of the death of its adherents or by the process of acculturation so intense that features of the original culture ar...