Descripción de la Exposición
The sixth event, which will take place September 27-29, 2024, focuses on the theme: "Utopias: The topology of the impossible"
The invitation to participate drawn up by the artistic director of the organization Mr. Mitrou Ioannis is as follows:
"Flusser in his work "The universe of technical images" refers to two directions of utopia, resulting from the media-technological age or otherwise our digital reality. One direction concerns a structure that is "centrally programmed" to be controlled in a comprehensive manner. This will consist of receivers and users of the produced images. We always talk about "technical images", dimensionless or otherwise "zero dimension images" because they are the result of signs-digits. Of the now digital culture. The other direction recommended by the philosopher is a social structure of a telematic type where it is made up of image collectors and their producers. In a way that differs from the usual dystopian futurist discourse, Flusser gives us the logic of another perspective. This possibility to act for the benefit of the human condition as a vision of coexistence and freedom. A coexistence that may also concern people with types of artificial intelligence machines that will be in a way functional entities of the new social condition.
So it is left to those "gestures" that change the data and activate the human in the measure of an ontology of the media determined by the new subject. The new aesthetics defined by the post-digital environment have their origins in the aesthetic-political duality while conversing with previous aesthetics. After all, the image as a dominant feature of the digital society through the "accumulation of information" constitutes a structure "built" on information. In the past (Upper Paleolithic) the dominance of "traditional images" contained the information of the time and transmitted it within the group and beyond it by preserving the images. The body here constituted an active all-visibility. In today's "universe of technical images" the almost instantaneous dissemination of information radically changes the subject's relationship with space and time. The digital self as a measurable state of information is shared in the digital public sphere. The body as a contraction of its materiality seeks the relationship with the digital body. but the living body remains the measure. So is the live space.
So how does art capture utopia, this lack of a specific place? How does the body search for its new "spatiality of position"? In the sixth forum with theoretical insistence and artistic reflexive practice we will converse with the ontology of the media in search of the existential truth of the new subject that the age of digital media "constructs" in order to produce a critical thinking towards the new biopolitical reality to find methods of conflict with the bio-power of neoliberalism. Because another utopia is possible.”
Exposición. 19 nov de 2024 - 02 mar de 2025 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
Formación. 23 nov de 2024 - 29 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España
