Dark Sightings
Camilo Hermida / Colombia
Dark Sightings Explores the construction of three creatures and questions the generation of artificial territories, where the organic is represented by polygonal geometry. It invites the viewer to immerse themselves in digital and real environments, where the evolutionary process and the transformations of fragments of reality and fiction are modelled.
The creation of the models is developed with 3D tools such as visual production that creatively reconstruct fiction and imagination. The representation of reality develops parallels of perception changes that we see in the real and digital world, as proposed by Hernández (2002). Fictional elements come to life, they do not exist, but they are a living part of the digital polygonal nature, creating an instability between the unreal and the real.
He reflects on the poverty, insecurity and social inequality experienced by society and the great capitalism of the world, the relationship of real problems with technological life for the revolution and digital virtual development. Visual exploration results in graphics that complement the concept of three dimensional digital generations.
The modeling of geometric figures with organic coatings, visualizes the invisible relationships of fantasy, imagination and perception of the viewer and their relationships with the environment.
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- May 7, 2018
Land of Desire – Happy is the New Black
Donna Verheijden / Netherlands
www.donnaverheijden.nl
Marketers create behavioral profiles that reveal more about us than our DNA: by tracking our desires using metadata retrieved from apps, social media, and websites. To what extent is what we long for affected by what others want us to long for? Land of Desire questions today's increasingly consumerist society and our desire-driven media landscape. What behavior does desire lead us to?
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- May 7, 2018
All the World's a Stage - Ways of Seeing 2013
Donna Verheijden / Netherlands
www.donnaverheijden.nl
Je prends mes desirs pour la réalité, car je crois en la réalité de mes desirs. I consider my wishes reality, because I believe that my wishes are real. All the World's a Stage visually explores the meaning of image in a world of constant retinal input. It asks questions and propagates the creation of today's apparent or staged realities within the media and politics. It reveals mythical truths and unveils true illusions by deconstructing and reconstructing realities that we often take for granted. Close your eyes and see
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- May 7, 2018
Landscape of Forgotten Futures
Audrey Aquilina, Brigitta Zics, Miklós Peternák, John Shearer & Oliver Marchant / United Kingdom
www.anywherefilms.com
The Brain Cell & The Power Plant: Where Today's Tomorrow Meets Yesterday's Futures In the disused control room of a Budapest power plant (designed by celebrated architect Virgil Borbiro), an impressive art deco skylight hangs over the banks of redundant switches and dials, like an eye monitoring the city's electrical grid. Below the oculus hangs a polished copper dome containing technology that allows people to interact with computer displays using their eyes. This immersive device (by Dr. Brigitta Zics) suggests future scenarios designed to challenge our notions of control, independence, boredom, and aesthetics. The artwork shows unique results according to each individual's chosen journey into the future. Spanning 100 years, these two pieces, the Control Room and the Eye Resonator, share an obsession with cutting-edge technology and craftsmanship. With Artificial Intelligence just around the corner, this short documentary 'Landscape of Forgotten Futures' raises questions about humanity, technology and society and reminds us how quickly the possibilities of our past can become forgotten futures. Explore algorithmic modeling, control, and aesthetics, and ask if we'll value boredom over stimulation in the future.
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- May 7, 2018
The infinite step of the walker / The wanderer's infinite step
Julian Santana / Colombia - Germany
www.panoramacolombia.com
Two selections of video art made in Germany by Colombian artists. Some stop to dialogue with the architecture (Kellerreinigungsservice) and the others go through it wondering what their place is as individuals in the middle of the landscape (nach Hause fahren).
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- May 7, 2018
Girls of Uchitu'u
Helena Salguero Velez / Colombia
Uchitu'u is a small Wayuu hamlet located in the area of the Cabo de la Vela hills, between the Guajira desert and the Caribbean Sea in northern Colombia. This territory, through its vast desert, the undulation of the hills to the continental shore and the aquamarine color of its sea, reveals the mystery of the original culture that has inhabited it for centuries. Sonia and Yelitza are two Wayuu girls, 10 and 8 years old, who live in the Uchituu community. United by blood through the maternal line, they have learned in their mother tongue the relationships to survive according to what they find in nature. Despite being raised in the same context, Sonia and Yelitza have several marked differences between them, which are largely a reflection of the influence that, at their young age, has marked contact with practices and customs outside their territory. The material thought, school education, trade and tourism that has reached Cabo de la Vela, has greatly permeated the daily life of indigenous communities, generating tension between the value of the ancestral worldview and the "civilized" world, raising questions against the forms of education that the younger indigenous generations receive to build their identity.
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- May 7, 2018
Andaki Path of Life
Juan Pablo Mendez / Colombiab>
At the time of the Conquest, a group of indigenous people sought to reach the Amazon from the Andes escaping from the Spanish troops and opened what is now known as the Camino Andakí. This territory, which lived through the war against Peru, the bloody exploitation of resources such as rubber and cinchona, and the horrors of the armed conflict, is now the setting in which a group of scientists and several of its inhabitants explore life and biodiversity .
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- May 7, 2018
Vichada, to the Custody of Life
Clare Weiskopf / Colombia
A reflection by the famous scientist Alexander Von Humboldt on the mysticism of an expedition begins a journey of reflections on science through the exploration of the savannahs and gallery forests of the Tomo River, which begins in the Meta, crosses the Vichada and flows into the Great Orinoco. This territory is a great biological corridor not only between those departments but also between Colombia and Venezuela, and the point of return for a group of biologists to the area that they had been able to investigate until they had to leave it in the 1980s because of the armed conflict.
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- May 7, 2018
the rock
Oscar Ruiz Navia / Colombia
Science delves into the caves of El Peñón and the geological richness of its exterior to unravel a unique diversity that is mixed with the stories of violence that its inhabitants tell. Located in the department of Santander, El Peñón is a place that, thanks to its geological conditions, offers one of the most unique biodiversities in the country. A foreign scientist who dedicated his life to the study of its caves, which are the largest and oldest in the country, and a group of scientists exploring its exterior penetrate this territory, while its inhabitants tell stories full of silences that fluctuate between the splendor of the landscape in which they grew up and the rigors of violence they faced.
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