The current edition of the Transitio_mx Festival, Nomadic Borders, focuses on creating an action and reflection space over the concept of community. The purpose is to weave affective and knowledge networks together with artists, scientists, collectors, technologists, curators, scholars and the general audience in order to symbolically dilute the disciplinary and territorial limits, consolidating projects that are both hybrid and offer relational strategies.

 

Through this framework, the Symposium of the festival opens a reflection around the ethical, methodological and communicative practices that characterize the electronic arts community in Mexico. Through a series of conferences, discussion panels and workshops a theoretical research network will be integrated, based on four thematic axes, three of them vertical:

 

Politics and public space

Transdiscipline

Game

and a fourth transversal axis:

Complexity: action and appropriation

 

The activities of the Symposium will shape contact areas where individuals and institutions can gather together to activate knowledge-building processes. They will be spaces that are suitable for the formation of unique links, of interactive dynamics that lead to the reciprocal transformation of its participants. The academic dialogue will be the tool used to hybridize perspectives, to share searches and findings. On the map of this relational configuration, it will be possible to trace multiple trajectories: spreading and transgression, mutation and resonance.

 

The starting point will be to acknowledge difference as a creative potential in order to research on the transversal nature of the electronic arts. The objective, more than the dilution of borders, is to inaugurate instantaneous bridges that serve as places for the encounter, both hostile and hospitable, with that of another gaze. In this continuous come and go from a dual reading to the individual re-writing, it is pretended the emergence of a new path to go from art to science, from work to game.

 

Specific Lines of Work (notes to the electronic arts community practices)

 

Politics and public space (notes to an ethical practice)

The media potential the electronic arts have to dislocate
control strategies: conditions and scope.

The media shaping of public space and its access possibilities.

The role of critical thought in the electronic arts production.

 

Transdiscipline (notes to a methodological practice)

The nature of the creative processes resulting from the interaction dynamics.

The formalization of the creative potential of difference:
hybridization, opening, tolerance.

The search for the transversal: interest, criterion and tool.

Artistic practice in the borders with science and social action.

 

Game (notes to a communicative practice)

Time of the game: festive and hospitable experience.

The form of the game: movement, warning and strategy.

The era of the game: desertion and reintegration practices.

 

Complexity: action and appropriation (transversal axis)

The paradigm of complexity in the current form of knowledge.

Complexity as a material element of the electronic arts.