Circa 94

by Fran Ilich

ES 1994. ORIÓN ES un adolescente que vive en la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos. Entre raves, viajes de LSD y en un transitar permanente por freeways, downtowns y coffee-shops, Orión descubre lo que significa ser un pocho del lado equivocado de la frontera. Es también un aspirante a escritor y busca crear la gran novela mexicana que defina la época y las circunstancias que le han tocado vivir. Con estos elementos nos internamos en una obra que es también una reflexión sobre el propio género así como un intento de reflejar en la página el mundo hiperconectado que nos ofrecen las nuevas tecnologías. Con esta novela de tinta e internet, llena de desparpajo y aventuras, Fran Ilich ganó el Premio Binacional de Novela Joven Frontera de Palabras/Border of Words 2010.

246 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Fran Ilich is a writer and media-artist working on creative practices of experimental economies and finance, hacktivism and narrative media. He was a fellow at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York, and is CEO of the Diego de la Vega cooperative media conglomerate. Ilich is author of the novels Metro-pop (1997), Tekno Guerrilla (2007), and Circa 94 (2010), as well as Another Narrative is Possible: Political Imagination in the Age of the Internet, the English version to be published by the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam. He was editor at large of Sputnik Cultura Digital magazine, screenwriter of the show Interacción (Discovery Channel Latin America), researcher at Centro Multimedia México, and manager of the literature department at Centro Cultural Tijuana. His work has been presented at Berlinale Talent Campus, Documenta 12, Transmediale, MIT Media In Transition, Walker Art Center, NYU, The World Bank, The Economist Mexico Summit 2011, Antidoto, SXSW, Electronic Literature Organization Symposium, and the Festival Mundial de la Digna Rabia del EZLN. He also directed the festivals Cinemátik 1.0, (MOCA - CalArts), and Borderhack, and directed narrative media seminars at Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, in Sevilla. He won the 2010 Leonardo Foundation scholarship to study at the M.A. program in Media Arts Histories at Donau-Krems Universität, Austria.

Reviews

[Denise · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was a really hard book to finish. It was ok but the back and forth between the main story and short stories got annoying. The end was lame.