Works by Manuel de Landa

Manuel de Landa (Mexico City, 1952) Mexican writer, artist and philosopher living in New York who has a highly varied and exceptional multidisciplinary body of work. He has written extensively on nonlinear dynamics, self-organization theories, life and artificial intelligence, chaos theory, architecture, and history of science. Currently, de Landa is a professor at the Graduate School of Columbia University in New York in the area of architecture and holds the Gilles Deleuze Chair at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He moved to New York in 1975 where he became a film director. In 1980 he became interested in computing, was a pioneer programmer and made art with the computer, when he stands out as one of the most outstanding theorists in the field of cybernetics.

  • Date
    June 11, 2019

    cycling

    Ricardo Dalfarra
    Canada-Argentina

    "CYCLE" (2015). Series of 24 images generated by mathematical algorithms. It is a work made up of a series of 24 images generated by mathematical algorithms, which are shown sequentially, forming a cycle that is continuously repeated (loop). The 24 digital images make up a group that in turn is linked to a family of series created by similar means, always based on the application of mathematical models. “CICLAGEM” uses mathematical models based on multifractal noise to generate images that resemble mounds and rocks, texture modulators, infinite space generators, and nonlinear conversion systems for digital image processing, among others.

  • Date
    June 11, 2019

    Bodies contained within each other

    Jasmine Rojas
    Colombia

    We are immersion. Human existence is only possible thanks to the relationships we establish with other living beings and with those that science has classified as abiotic or “non-living”. For this reason, I start from the idea of imagining my existence as one more body, submerged in the mixture of bodies that we are, contained among each other, without any hierarchy. Bodies contained among themselves is an audiovisual installation, made up of two ceramic pieces with contact speakers, a glass piece, a photograph and a book that has the moor as its reference point and dead leaves and the central pith as its object of study: parts of the body of some plant species of the genus Espeletia or Frailejón. I found in this plant an exposed and immobile body, capable of living in an extreme environment, since its morphology and physiology was created from an adaptive relationship with the atmosphere, so no matter how deep you will observe inside this plant I realized that this and its environment are inseparable, the existence of one without the other is not possible. From there I began to find very interesting relationships between the mechanism of the plant and the means of my artistic practice: ceramics and sound.

  • Date
    June 11, 2019

    Liquid Democracy

    John Paul Pacheco
    Works in alliance with the image festival

    Liquid democracy (or digital participatory) is a form of direct democracy in which people can vote on individual proposals without delegating all their decisions to a single representative. To do so, citizens can vote through issue-by-issue online platforms. The simulation of these spaces of representation (political, geographical and ideological), presupposes universal access to these technologies, as well as the homogenization of their use, revealing the place of digital technology as an ideology that operates based on its supposed transparency, and to that extent, it reinforces its forms of control over the territory, subjects and information flows.arrafo + Pararafo Break

  • Date
    June 11, 2019

    Logical Sets/Logic Fluids

    sebastian rivera
    Colombia

    The image today is multiple, it is overflowing, it is cheap, it is of low quality, the image is no longer an object, it is communication. "Conjuntos Lógicos/Fluidos Lógicos" cannot be conceptualized as a work that responds to the paradigm of analog culture in its entirety, it is presented as a work that demonstrates praxis of the image and that in turn works on the renewal of iconography by Through the implementation of the digital imaginary that allows exploring other spatialities about which it is enough to clarify, the muscular gesture fits. The action of the body performing in favor of building on what has been built goes beyond the limits of the image that invents the liberation of two realities that make the work itself flow and enrich itself, that generates a dynamism with the world and, in turn, allows the exploitation of the artistic document in its languages and its possibilities.

  • Date
    June 11, 2019

    Grandma, I'm going to Space 2019

    Jose Garcia
    Works in alliance with the image festival

    In the video, Grandma, I'm going to Space, I tell my grandmother that I'm going to space and her reaction is authentic. I knew that her ability to believe was due to unique and special circumstances. My goal was to imagine maybe in 200 years what conversations with family members about interstellar travel might be like. It's a conversation to represent the time when the wonder of space travel will be accessible to many more people. In the Solar Eclipse video, we toured the streets of my family's town with a car-pipe announcement system to share with people that in 7 years there would be a solar eclipse over Colombia. It is an impractical but at the same time poetic gesture to announce the eclipse years in advance because this is a celestial event that occurs very rarely in the life of a human being. It is a game that we started with the townspeople and their reactions are interesting. In a few years we will return to the town to continue the preparations for the solar eclipse.

  • Date
    June 11, 2019

    From the Latitud Cerro Matoso project, "Towards a body geography of conflict" 2017

    Estefania Garcia Pineda
    Works in alliance with the image festival

    Assemblage: Light box, x-ray of skull in profile, second molar extracted from the artist "Latitud Cerro Matoso" It is a symbolic relief project in the field of plastic arts, born from an experience lived by my family and me in the year 1994: displacement from my hometown Montelíbano, located in the department of Córdoba, near the Cerro Matoso nickel mines, where my father worked, to the city of Manizales Caldas where my mother's family lived. The project has three parts: the first “Towards a corporal geography of the conflict” whose central axis is the collective memory of my family, which among others contains the oral testimony of my parents and documents and personal corporal elements; the second "Displacements and transitions" performance that focuses on past and present personal memory from territorial displacement; the third part "exiled testimonies" shows an ethnographic process based on the personal, collective, and historical memory of the town to which he returned at the end of August 2017, after 23 years of having fled.

  • Date
    June 11, 2019

    Untitled (series: digital fasias)

    Alejandro Londono
    Works in alliance with the image festival

    Londoño wonders about a context where computer machines seem to appropriate the world to blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. With the advent of the "new media" and especially with the advent of the computer, the complex circuit of the sign has been torn apart and we have found ourselves immersed in a quagmire in which the signified and signifier have lost any connection. The raw material of his work is related to codes, numbers and algorithms, using complex computerized translations and transforming them into a plastic language. In his work he tries to materialize coded information, which is "intangible", in a constant search for the recovery of the analogue in the continuous evolution of the digital world.

  • Date
    June 13, 2019

    VR Metaverse

    Nazly Lopez Diaz/Juan Manuel Garcia/Gaia Pistolesi/Jorge Cuevas
    Colombia/Ecuador/Chile/Italy

    Is the human being prepared to be the master of his own evolution? Metaverso offers a virtual reality experience, in which the user takes an immersive journey through the interface of the MareNostrum supercomputer, a machine stationed in the city of Barcelona, dedicated to the analysis of the human genome. During the tour, the user will have the opportunity to reflect on the scope of genetic modification in man, its consequences on the continuity of the species and the redefinition of the concept of "human being" in times of expanded humanities.

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