“In any given device I find what we used to call the polemics on media convergence; today, the cell phone carries out the great convergence of Internet 2.0, and that is our raw material. All artistic praxes relying in technology meet there –in what theoreticians call social networks– and are now trying to get closer to that which concerns the users of this sort of devices: politic, social, economic, ecological issues…” Humberto Jardón, visual artist.
October 15, 2009
The last vodcast of the series “12 Autonomies” presents the stance of Andrea Di Castro, visual artist and founder of the Multimedia Center. +
October 12, 2009
“For the 20th century artist, the paradigm is to keep learning, always inquiring, always moving. It is no longer about finding a style, or rules, on the contrary, once you have found a place of comfort, you must immediately abandon it and move, and look for something that brings instability, something that puts you at risk”.
Ricardo Cortés, composer and professor. +
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.” +
