Technologies have always played a pivotal role in shaping artistic practices, whether through their influence on creative techniques, their integration into artistic concepts, or their role as subjects of reflection. In contemporary art, the relationship with technology has become even more intricate, blending traditional forms with cutting-edge innovations and raising new questions about the boundaries of art, materiality, and the role of the artist in an increasingly digitized world.

Orphic

As part of my research for an upcoming piece titled 'Limen', I've been extensively reading Timothy Morton's works.

This morning, while shaping a fragile sculpture, I found myself recalling a passage from 'Magic Death', the last chapter of his book 'Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality'.

“The mysterious quality of artworks is a signal about the mysterious quality of objects in general. Beauty is a secret that we know exists but whose content we don’t know. When we share it with others, it’s as if we are in on the same secret. We look at each other in amazement or with a knowing look. But it’s impossible to specify what this secret is. Only the fact that there is a secret is of any importance. Beauty is based on the raw fact of the secret as such…”

Kokkino -Generative video based in open source climate change datasets- by Leticia Almeida (Tanky) and Mathías Chumino (C03RA), won First Prize in the Datos+Arte 2023 exhibition, hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the ABRELATAM/CONDATOS conference.