{"id":1330,"date":"2023-03-05T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T21:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidsanchezburr.com\/wordpress-dsb\/?page_id=1330"},"modified":"2023-03-26T13:17:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T18:17:43","slug":"invisible-infrastructures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.davidsanchezburr.com\/wordpress-dsb\/invisible-infrastructures\/","title":{"rendered":"(in)visible Infrastructures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(in)visible infrastructures<\/h1>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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(in)visible infrastructures is a VR New Media Art Project intended to highlight the important bonds created through culture and history in Chicagoland Neighborhoods and the City of Waukegan. With storytelling at its core, the VR experience\n emulates visiting spaces and places critical to the development of youth in these communities and the struggles inherent in disinvestment, gentrification, racism, and inequality. <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Introduction<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Neighborhoods and the places we call home are extremely influential in developing our identity and engagement in culture and society. In the Chicagoland area the concept of a neighborhood has long been embedded in its peoples history\n and culture.<\/p>\n

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A longtime tradition of naming where ones family was raised is bedrock small-talk amongst chicagoans. While this has been and continues to be a tradition for people raised in the area, the landscape and demographics have changed much\n in the past 5 decades. Continuing evolution and economic priorities have created uneven growth amongst communities, some left disinvested and struggling to economically thrive. The implication of finding what the term neighborhood\n might mean today is challenging. Gentrification and generational racist approaches to urbanism have pushed the economic bar higher for minority groups and often disrupt, influence and dissolve their communities. To understand this\n process requires an experiential approach. Navigating the streets of Chicago\u2019s neighborhoods by vehicle, a thing most of us do, isn\u2019t quite enough to clearly understand the infrastructures that hold people together and the importance\n of place for those who live within. Beyond household doors and storefronts exists a network of people finding commonality rooted in their stories and history.<\/p>\n

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Episode 1: Alondra Velazquez and The Little Village<\/span><\/p>\n

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The first episode began in the summer of 2021, Alondra and I created a plan to visit Little Village and decided upon visiting two locations she felt were important and showed the narrative of the struggles of her neighborhood. The\n first location was the Little Village Discount Mall located at on w 26th Street between Troy and Whipple Streets. <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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To view this video with a Meta Quest headset please visit this link: Coming Soon<\/span><\/p>\n

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To View this video with other headsets please visit the following links: \n https:\/\/youtu.be\/A5rrtneiIyU<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

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