Rodolfo Peraza graduated from the Provincial School of Visual Arts in Camagüey (2000) and the Superior Institute of Art in Havana (2005). Peraza has spoken extensively on Contemporary Cuban art, notable lectures include Beyond The Hyphen: Approaching a post geographic Cuba at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (2012); Digital Practices in Cuban Contemporary Art at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, Florida (2012); and More Than Ninety Miles Away: A Dialogue about Cuban Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (2012). His solo shows include Solo Room Show at LOOP, the international video fair in Barcelona, Spain (2012); Con Espíritu Deportivo (With Sportsmanship) at El Fanguito Studio in Havana (2009); Juega y aprende (Play and Learn) at Nina Menocal Gallery in Mexico City, Mexico (2008); Circuito cerrado (Closed Circuit) at the gallery of the Cuban Cinematheque in Havana (2005); and Nada fuera, todo dentro (Nothing Out, Everything In) at the Provincial Center for Visual Arts and Design in Havana (2004). His works are part of the collections of various institutions, such as the Jumex Foundation of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, Mexico; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada; as well as in many private collections.
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A 2019 video featuring Rodolfo Peraza discussing the Local Views at PAMM tour.
A short video about the exhibition "Designing Post-Communism: recent political imaginaries in Cuban contemporary art", which bears witness to this paradigmatic change in contemporary culture from the singular venue and experience of the Cuban Revolution. The exhibition features four important artists of the contemporary Cuban art scene-- Ezequiel Suarez, Filio Galvez, Hamlet Lavastida, and Rodolfo Peraza.
Digital Exhibition: Like Cuba: Emerging Virtual Narratives. The Work of Rodolfo Peraza
Description of the Exhibition Quoted From the Site:
Rodolfo Peraza’s “Pilgram” is a dynamic analysis of 35 recently opened public WiFi access points in Cuba. As he traveled to visit these sites, Peraza produced a multifaceted visual documentation of the transformation brought about by Internet access.
To create his work Peraza utilizes a specially developed open-source PHP scraper app to extract information from web traffic, tweets, and comments at the new Wi-Fi points; this module produces a hierarchy of terms, takes into account the relevance of specific words, and renders the information into sunburst forms that update as the scraper aggregates new information. The project aims to pay close attention to the ways in which Cuban lives are affected by access to connective technology. Local residents at the different sites were interviewed about their use of the WiFi points, yielding an added register of information which Peraza presents alongside the scraper charts. As its name — an unlikely amalgam of “pill,” “pilgrim,” and “Instagram” — suggests, the project explores the purported positive and palliative effect of increased digital connectivity, the complicated role of the documentarian, and the specificity of the medium through which Peraza circulates his research findings (BOFFO’s Instagram account, @boffo_ny).
The diverse references folded into this title suggest a deeply complicated relation between Cuban society and the Internet; Peraza’s project seeks to document this relation in all of its rich complexity, rather than portraying a simplified technological narrative.