Rubén Ortiz-Torres – Power Tools :: The United Nations Plaza Radio Network, WUNP – 95.2 FM :: July 28, 2007, 6PM CEST (Berlin) :: Hosted by neuroTransmitter.

Taking cue from the subtitle of Rubén Ortiz-Torres’ blog, Saturday’s conversation is a live rant about art and culture across borders in the post colonial era. Ruben Ortiz-Torres was born in Mexico City in 1964 and has been living / working in Los Angeles since 1990. He was educated within the utopian models of republican Spanish anarchism confronted by the tragedies and cultural clashes of the post colonial third world. After giving up the dream of playing major league baseball, he decided to study art.
After enduring Mexico City’s earthquake and pollution Ortiz-Torres moved to L.A. with a Fulbright grant to survive riots, fires, floods, more earthquakes, and proposition 187. During all of this, he has produced artwork in the form of paintings, photographs, objects, installations, videos, and films which, since 1982 have been featured internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He is part of the permanent Faculty of the University of California in San Diego.

WUNP 95.2 FM is a radio station produced by neuroTransmitter (Valerie Tevere + Angel Nevarez) for United Nations Plaza. WUNP is a portal for broadcasting audio works, conversations, and conceptual radio projects. Over the course of the summer and fall of 2007 WUNP will be on air across Berlin and beyond through internet stream on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays beginning at 6 PM CEST (Berlin) through November.

Local broadcast times: 9-11am Honolulu / 11am-1pm Anchorage / 12-2pm Los Angeles, Vancouver / 1-3pm San Salvador / 2-4pm Bogota, Mexico City / 3-5pm Montreal, New York / 4-6pm Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo / 4:30-6:30pm St. John’s / 7-9pm Casablanca, Reykjavik / 8-10pm Algiers, Dublin, London / 9-11pm Berlin, Rome, Zagreb / 10pm-12am Beirut, Istanbul, Nairobi, Ramallah / 11pm-1am Baghdad / 11:30pm-1:30am Tehran / +1 day — 12-2am Islamabad, Moscow / 1-3am Dhaka / 1:30-3:30am Mumbai, New Delhi / 2-4am Chiang Mai, Hanoi / 3-5am Beijing / 4-6am Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo / 5-7am Sydney / 6-8am Vladivostok / 7-9am Auckland / 8-10am Anadyr / 9-11am Christmas Island /

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