May 8, 2008
“Dang, open sewer!”photo documentation of my “recycle your ideas” ongoing seriesMay 2008
“Dang, open sewer!”
photo documentation of my “recycle your ideas” ongoing series
May 2008
May 7, 2008
I am currently showing at the National Museum of Mexican Art
I am currently showing at the National Museum of Mexican Art
My Chupacabra escaped!computer print on canvas with wall stickerMiguel Cortez, 2008currently showing at the National Museum of Mexican Art
My Chupacabra escaped!
computer print on canvas with wall sticker
Miguel Cortez, 2008
currently showing at the National Museum of Mexican Art
 …also currently showing at the Krannert Museum.
 …also currently showing at the Krannert Museum.
I showed 2 computer prints(left) at the Krannert Museum in Champaign, IL this spring.
I showed 2 computer prints(left) at the Krannert Museum in Champaign, IL this spring.
Exist Within Your Timeline #2Braille engraved plastic sign Miguel Cortez, 2007Series statement I’ve always wondered about humanity’s never ending quest to define existence throughout the ages via religion or philosophy and I started asking myself these questions back in May: Where was I before I was born? We are born on such a year and then die on such a year in linear time. Did our consciousness/soul exist before and will it exist after? Or are we limited to exist just in our designated timeline? From these questions arose this series of artwork.
Exist Within Your Timeline #2
Braille engraved plastic sign
Miguel Cortez, 2007

Series statement
I’ve always wondered about humanity’s never ending quest to define existence throughout the ages via religion or philosophy and I started asking myself these questions back in May: Where was I before I was born? We are born on such a year and then die on such a year in linear time. Did our consciousness/soul exist before and will it exist after? Or are we limited to exist just in our designated timeline? From these questions arose this series of artwork.
Who is watching you? # 1 Digital print, 24” x 24” March 2007
Who is watching you? # 1
Digital print, 24” x 24”
March 2007
Jeevatma Leap computer print, dimensions variable Miguel Cortez, 2007Jeevatma is the concept of the “soul” in the Ayyavazhi religion of South India. I came across this while researching for this series which takes the idea of empathy a step further by trying to imagine our consciousness jumping/leaping from one person to another. Just like accessing information from different computers, how would it feel to enter someone else’s body and have access to their memories, feelings, etc..?
Jeevatma Leap
computer print, dimensions variable
Miguel Cortez, 2007

Jeevatma is the concept of the “soul” in the Ayyavazhi religion of South India. I came across this while researching for this series which takes the idea of empathy a step further by trying to imagine our consciousness jumping/leaping from one person to another. Just like accessing information from different computers, how would it feel to enter someone else’s body and have access to their memories, feelings, etc..?
Dream: September 2006
Video DVD
Miguel Cortez, 2006

“I woke up today at about 5am with a weird vivid dream. In the dream I was at work and our building was going thru some evacuation procedure so since I work on the 5th floor we had to walk down the stairs but when we got to the 3rd floor a group of us noticed the stairway and floor had changed since the last time we walked down. Someone said it was because of the new Indian owners and it had to do with Bollywood. So we had to go down a different route and upon walking thru some corridors and down more stairs we came across this huge room; the first floor I assume. And in this room there were people sleeping but sleeping stacked on top of each other; inside mounds of earth, like mini-hills and their bodies were inside except for the head and one on top of another with some space in between each. And on the floor was about 2 feet of water with feces and urine, so in order to get to the exit we had to walk thru it. And when I walked several feet I woke up…looked at my cell phone, four fifty eight am.”