ariana hernandez-reguant

Ariana Hernandez-Reguant is hiccup’s founder and director. She is a cultural anthropologist and arts activist who works at the intersection of ethnography and socially-engaged art. She has conducted research on artworlds and placemaking in Havana and Miami for many years, and was a 2017 fellow-in-residence at Art Center-South Florida (now Oolite Arts), as well as a 2015 recipient of a multi-year Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Grant. As a former faculty member at the University of California, San Diego (2004-2012), she mentored MFA students in social practice, and was an organizer, board member and consultant in various art and urban projects in the San Diego-Tijuana region, including the cross-border Casa del Tunel art center, the San Diego Latino Film Festival, the Political Equator, and the Haudenschild Arts Garage and Salon. You may listen to her take on hiccup and the South Florida art scene in a podcast in SoFlo Creatives.

ernesto oroza

Ernesto Oroza is hiccup's co-founder. he is an artist, designer and author, whose work reformulates notions of production, creativity, and subject-object interaction, as well as critically examines the urban space and its public/private dynamics. His most recent work has involved an exploration into the materiality and use-value of one-time construction tools and space markers developed only to be discarded. Both his theoretical concepts of "architecture of necessity" and "technological disobedience" have been widely used. He has held numerous fellowships, including the Guggenheim (2007), the Cintas (2008), and the Harpo (2010), as well as guest faculty positions in Havana, Paris and elsewhere. His work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, including, recently, the PAMM museum, Snitzer Gallery, and the Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, all in Miami. More information can be obtained in his website, Architecture of Necessity. 

COLLABORATING ARTISTS

Otari Oliva Buadze

Otari Oliva Buadze is an artist, author and curator. He was co-founder of the Cristo Salvador Location in Havana, an autonomous art space that showcased cutting-edge art. He was also founder and coordinator of the online art and philosophy publication Carne Negra Fanzine (2013-2016). In Cuba,  he was a  member of the Libertarian Project Alfredo López, and a co-organizer of the Havana Libertarian Spring events in 2013-2015.  Currently living in Hialeah, he is committed to a socially engaged art practice grounded both in community research and grassroots politics.

Gean Moreno

Gean Moreno is James S. and John L. Knight Director of the Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA). In this capacity, he oversees the Center’s operations and digital initiatives, develops pedagogical and discursive platforms, commissions publications and long-term research projects. He is also part of ICA’s curatorial team, and has recently curated exhibitions dedicated to the work of Terry Adkins, Larry Bell, and Ettore Sottsass. Moreno was an adviser to the 2017 Whitney Biennial and the 2018 Creative Time Summit. In 2008, he founded [NAME] Publications, a press dedicated to field-advancing art theory, and regularly contributes to art-related publications such as e-flux journal, Kaleidoscope, and Art in America. His edited volume, In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art is forthcoming on Verso books.

Paula Guersenzvaig

Paula Guersenzvaig participated in hiccup’s Freedom From project. She is a sound artist and a professor at the "Tres de Febrero" National University Master’s of Electronic Arts program, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. With a background in science and technology (mathematics and sound and software engineering), she focuses on the exploration and deconstruction of sound, sound aesthetics and contexts of listening.  She is an artist resident at Panal 361, in Buenos Aires, and has held residencies at Art Center-South Florida, in Miami, and elsewhere around the world.  She often collaborates with other artists, and has participated in numerous shows, solo and collective, using the materiality of sound to create installations that appeal to invisible modes of listening and the relation to space. She is a participant in HICCUP's Freedom Project.

Rodolfo peraza

Rodolfo Peraza is a digital artist, working with games and interactive platforms. He was instrumental in hiccup’s Bench Social project, as well as in the early configurations of that and other projects.

Peraza graduated from the Higher Institute of Arts, Havana, Cuba (2005) and is the founder and director of MUD Foundation, an artist-run organization that focuses on New Media art and digital culture, as well as of  Art Hack Data 2017. His work has been widely shown at venues including Miami's Pérez Art Museum, Miami, US (2017); SIGGRAPH 2017, Los Angeles; XII Havana Biennial (2015); The XXXI Biennial of Pontevedra in Galicia, Spain (2010); and Mexico's Jumex Collection (2008).  By using the internet, social media, virtual reality, and animation, he creates works that explore the moral, spiritual and social modes of behavior that govern today’s society. His latest work explore the digital infrastructure and networks that link the United States with Cuba.