ABOUT
ABOUT EMMANUEL RAMOS-BARAJAS
Emmanuel Ramos-Barajas is a scholar, educator, and research-based image maker who studies the links between history, conquest, and landscape representation in the aridlands of the US Southwest. By investigating narratives of exploration and discovery and by distorting the established conventions of landscape art, his work manifests how images have mediated the telling of history by veiling ideologies of colonization. With a frenzied gaze through a moving car window, he places infrastructures of energy consumption at the center of our experience of “the West.” Working with different imaging technologies, his panoramic collages, experimental videos, and immersive landscapes unmask historical constructions and imagine different futures—challenging our sight and interrupting the sublime.
Emmanuel is the co-creator and video producer of Unsettling Journeys, an educational YouTube channel dedicated in deconstructing Latinx identities through Art History; as well as co-curator of Borderless Cultures, a film screening project invested in the critical dissection of cinematic conventions. He has worked at The Block Museum of Art as Communications Media Coordinator and the social media company we are mitú as video producer. He received his BA from The School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA, and his MFA from the University of Illinois Chicago.
Emmanuel Ramos-Barajas is a scholar, educator, and research-based image maker who studies the links between history, conquest, and landscape representation in the aridlands of the US Southwest. By investigating narratives of exploration and discovery and by distorting the established conventions of landscape art, his work manifests how images have mediated the telling of history by veiling ideologies of colonization. With a frenzied gaze through a moving car window, he places infrastructures of energy consumption at the center of our experience of “the West.” Working with different imaging technologies, his panoramic collages, experimental videos, and immersive landscapes unmask historical constructions and imagine different futures—challenging our sight and interrupting the sublime.
Emmanuel is the co-creator and video producer of Unsettling Journeys, an educational YouTube channel dedicated in deconstructing Latinx identities through Art History; as well as co-curator of Borderless Cultures, a film screening project invested in the critical dissection of cinematic conventions. He has worked at The Block Museum of Art as Communications Media Coordinator and the social media company we are mitú as video producer. He received his BA from The School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA, and his MFA from the University of Illinois Chicago.