Faculty: Ricardo Miranda

Office: Holman 349 | Phone: 2939 | Email: miranda@tcnj.edu

Ricardo Miranda Zuniga grew up between Nicaragua, and San Francisco. Although his formal education has been within the borders of the United States, his personal perspectives and ideology have been molded by a bicultural reality, consisting of such polar elements as Disneyland and the Nicaraguan Leftist Revolutionary movement. A bicultural upbringing tied to a multidisciplinary education has lead to work that attempts to cultivate interaction with the viewer and may include performance, sculpture, video and audio, the Internet or a combination of all. The principle behind the work is communication as a creative process.

Ricardo's work has been exhibited internationally. Selected exhibitions include: TRANSITIO_MX02 at Laboratorio Art-Alameda, Mexico City; Russia: Significant Other, The National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia; inSite 05: Tijuana Calling at the San Diego/Tiijuana Border; Timeshift, Ars Electronica 2004, Linz, Austria; Counter Culture, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC; Whitney Museum artport, gatpage; public.exe: Public Execution (2004) and L Factor at Exit Art Manhattan, NY (2003); Alt Digital, The American Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY (2003); Version>03 at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art (2003); InteractivA'03 at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Yucatan, Mexico; Race in Digital Space at University of Southern California (2002).

Ricardo has also been awarded numerous awards, recent awards include New York Foundation for the Arts, Computer Arts Fellow 2007 and 2006-08 Tides Foundation Lambent Fellow.