NEWSWEEK: The worlds most creative cities / Tijuana: HYBRID HAPPENING

NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE / Sep 1, 2002

The World’s New Culture Meccas / TIJUANA: HYBRID HAPPENING

…”No one is going to shut me up here,” says 25-yearold Daniel Ruanova, an abstract painter who has American citizenship but prefers to spend his time in the “Wild West” of his hometown. Like Ruanova’s paintings, which draw on videogame imagery, much of Tijuana’s art is inspired by technology. The city has attracted several cyberfestivals in the last few years featuring guerrilla art, virtual sit-ins and activist speakers…

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