Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn, curator of Contemporary Hispano and Latino Collections at Museum of International Folk Art is constantly looking for ways to break down stereotypes and collapse categories as they pertain to Latino and Hispano arts and artists. With the beginning of the new millennium, Dr. Nunn was determined to create an exhibition to inspire museum visitors and contemporary artists to investigate what computers and the Internet have to offer. With this exhibition, la red (the web), los emilios (e-mails) and ciber espacio (cyber space) will never be the same.

"The central purpose of Cyber Arte is to exhibit the work of the featured artists and to showcase the manner in which they translate and recast their deeply-rooted cultural beliefs, images and history by utilizing computers to create a new type of visual art," says Dr. Nunn. "We hope this exhibition will encourage visitors to explore the infinite artistic and cultural possibilities of computers and the World Wide Web."

Cyber Arte will be supplemented through educational programming that will target students and communities in and around Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Artists in the exhibition, as well as other Hispanic and Latino artists working with computers will be hired to teach workshops on the "Information Highway" for typically underserved and underrepresented populations.