{"id":9766,"date":"2019-10-25T18:29:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T22:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=9766"},"modified":"2019-10-30T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T19:19:13","slug":"matthew-d-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/matthew-d-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew D Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6840\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9766-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/MatthewDGarcia.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/MatthewDGarcia.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/MatthewDGarcia.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9906 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Headshot_Matt_G.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Headshot_Matt_G.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Headshot_Matt_G.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Headshot_Matt_G.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Headshot_Matt_G.jpg?resize=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Headshot_Matt_G.jpg?resize=1068%2C712&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Headshot_Matt_G.jpg?resize=630%2C420&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Headshot_Matt_G.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Headshot_Matt_G.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vase.art.arizona.edu\/matthew-garcia\/\">Matt Garcia\u2019s artistic practice<\/a> investigates ecology, its relationship to knowledge systems and how media can connect communities to a reclaiming or re-imagining of lost epistemology. Matthew Garcia is an assistant professor of Art and Design at Dominican University of California located in the San Francisco Bay Area and the founder of the interdisciplinary collective Desert ArtLAB. In 2010, Garcia established <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertartlab.com\/\">Desert ArtLAb<\/a> to explore how a connection to desert ecology and art can foster a sense of belonging, empowerment, and self-determination.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Garcia&#8217;s work has been presented nationally and internationally at: Ecole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France), Museum of Contemporary Native Art &#8211; MoCNA (Santa Fe,NM), Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara ,The International Symposium on Electronic Art (2012,2015), Balance-Unbalance Festival (Noose, Australia) and HASTAC (Lima, Peru). Garcia is a 2016 Creative Capital awardee in Emerging Fields.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Garcia&#8217;s current project, <a href=\"https:\/\/creative-capital.org\/projects\/the-desertification-cookbook\/\">The Desertification Cookbook<\/a>, visually re-brands the concept of deserts not as a post-apocalyptic growth of wasteland, but as a culinary and ecological opportunity. The cookbook is a collection of bilingual community driven recipes, statements, strategies and actions for exploring, surviving, and belonging in the desert borderlands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The book mentioned in the interview is <a href=\"https:\/\/uapress.arizona.edu\/book\/eating-the-landscape\">Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience<\/a> by Enrique Salm\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9907\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9907 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IAIA-EcologiesofResistance-1024x669.jpg?resize=640%2C418&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IAIA-EcologiesofResistance.jpg?resize=1024%2C669&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IAIA-EcologiesofResistance.jpg?resize=300%2C196&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IAIA-EcologiesofResistance.jpg?resize=768%2C501&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IAIA-EcologiesofResistance.jpg?resize=696%2C454&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IAIA-EcologiesofResistance.jpg?resize=1068%2C697&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IAIA-EcologiesofResistance.jpg?resize=643%2C420&amp;ssl=1 643w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IAIA-EcologiesofResistance.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IAIA-EcologiesofResistance.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desert ArtLAB: Ecologies of Resistance, installation view, 2017, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. Image courtesy IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9908\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9908\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9908 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MobileECO-Studio.jpg?resize=640%2C414&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MobileECO-Studio.jpg?resize=1024%2C663&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MobileECO-Studio.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MobileECO-Studio.jpg?resize=768%2C497&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MobileECO-Studio.jpg?resize=696%2C450&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MobileECO-Studio.jpg?resize=1068%2C691&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MobileECO-Studio.jpg?resize=649%2C420&amp;ssl=1 649w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MobileECO-Studio.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MobileECO-Studio.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MOBILE ECO-STUDIO, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/MatthewDGarcia.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listMatt Garcia\u2019s artistic practice investigates ecology, its relationship to knowledge systems and how media can connect communities to a reclaiming or re-imagining of lost epistemology. 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