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The Examined Life: Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga's NexumATM, which his website describes as A Feast of Photojournalism "The automated teller that reflects a history of imperialism by the United States," prompts the viewer to select from a list of foreign currencies— Asphalt Jungle: A Rare Utopian the Iraqi dinar, say. Once the choice has been made, a tiny digital Fantasy wrestler leaps about on the screen in an interpretive re-enactment of Concrete Kingdom: American aggression in that region. Rutherford Chang, in his video Dead Sculptures By Nek Chand Air (State of the Union), edits footage of last January's controversial speech so that the President's mouth flaps silently between moments of applause. In the same spirit, Trong G. Nguyen offers fortune cookies podcasts filled with Bush malapropisms, or "Bushisms"—a decidedly low-calorie treat. rss feeds most popular Debunking the American Dream proves an equally popular pursuit. Traci Talasco constructs a crude model of a suburban housing lot; Hidemi most recent Sato photographs details of fast-food restaurants, gas stations, and most emailed amusement parks with a magpie sensibility; and Diane Meyer layers campy cartoon cowboys over Western-style landscape paintings bought from thrift shops. In general, the AIM students might want to spend less about us time in American Studies and more revising their artist statements, advertise which are at best full of vagaries and at worst completely incoherent. 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So, for that matter, did Rossana Martínez's sculpture The City Rises, a colorful micro-metropolis of stacked paper, Styrofoam, and plastic desk accessories rising from a grid of drafting tape on plywood. Martínez describes her constructed city as "a place where harmony and chaos, order and disorder, ease and difficulty, humane and inhumane coexist." In the initial moments of the power failure, as traffic on the Grand Concourse evolved from cacophonous anarchy to an acquiescent crawl, hers was a work of art that had found its market.

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