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After a two-year process, Krzysztof Wodiczko’s project culminated in two evenings of projections on the sixty-foot-diameter façade of the Omnimax Theater at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. Known for his large-scale outdoor projections, with ‘Tijuana Projection’/ ’Proyección en Tijuana’ Wodiczko wanted to use technology new at the time to give voice and visibility to women working in the maquiladora industry in Tijuana. The projections consisted of prerecorded materials interspersed with live feeds from a headset with an integrated camera and microphone designed by the artist’s students at MIT and worn by the participating women. This was Wodiczko’s first time creating a projection incorporating live segments, adding a certain immediacy and potency to the presentation of these personal accounts.