12 Autonomies: #9 Liliana Quintero

October 09, 2009

In the 9th vodcast of the 12 Autonomies series, Liliana Quintero presents her standpoint on techno-artistic praxes in Mexico, based on her experience as Head of the Research Workshop at the Multimedia Center:

“It is essential that digital art give up the fascination with technology (…) It is very dangerous when technology becomes the artist’s technique, because at the end of the day all that is created is a technological device, and no art. And that’s where art should have its own strategies.”

“Sometimes, electronic art –through shock aesthetics tactics or downright discourses– can say much more than theory (…) I think some texts are fundamental in a theoretical level, but sometimes I wonder if they are really read (…) In art, you always know who is on the other side, because art is immediate; if the artist proceeds critically and directly, there is an interesting relationship with theory.”