Laboratorio Internacional: Arte de Sistemas
12 diciembre, 2023Laboratorio Internacional: Arte de Sistemas
12 diciembre, 2023
This program was developed in Buenos Aires, Barcelona, and Stuttgart/Fellbach.
The program will unfold practically in a deeply experimental format.
The production will be showcased to the public, serving as an exercise to reimagine exhibition spaces upon the conclusion of the workshop.
Program
We navigate through significant relational mutations, transitioning from a world filled with mythologies and causal worldviews to understanding that we coexist, alongside other species, in a critical ecological zone teeming with systemic relationships and networks. We move from a static world to a complex, dynamic system (with emergent behaviors) where matter and materials exhibit their own agency and intelligence. It is a world where we co-compose with synthetic minds (planetary computing), and the production of knowledge and shared sensibility is mediated by various technologies (image, sound, time, etc.).In Bruno Latour's terms, we need to compose the space to land because the coordinates of a linear, controllable, and agency-free world have been lost. We are in a new world profoundly relational, polyphonic, and systemic.
From the realm of art, where specific responses are crafted through different artifacts that simultaneously act on the perceptual, affective, and conceptual levels, the program 'New Approaches to Systems Art in the era of Assemblage Art' aims to address various critical axes related to contemporary mutations from a systemic-ecological perspective.
Target Audience: Artists from all disciplines; scientists from human and/or natural sciences; self-taught individuals.
Requirements: Have participated in collective creation instances or be deeply interested in engaging in collective creation practices.
Course Objectives:
- Develop and materialize various relational aesthetic and techno-aesthetic artifacts that make the problems of our time related to inter-species relationships, critical zones, global warming, agency networks, public space, narration, synthetic minds, and generativity perceptible.
- Articulate practices and issues of present-day art in a speculative laboratory focused on practices.
- Introduce different practices and concepts regarding the issues of contemporary arts.
Schedule
22/01 - Practice(s)
Keywords: repetition, gesture, series, collection, procedures, tools, materials, everyday life.
24/01 - Situation(s)
Keywords: public sphere, psychogeography, displace, ethnography, play, procedures.
26/01 – Systems
Keywords: materials, emergence, procedures, new technologies, new media, mind, relational, semiosis.
29/01 – Networks
Keywords: actors, cyborg, transversality, relational, artifact, mediations, complexity.
31/01 - Assemblage Art
Keywords: mind, synthetic, Machine Learning, AI, materials, networks, systems, flat ontology, speculation, inter-species, signal, semiosis, bodies.
Spaces and Polyphonies
Keywords: speculative design, speculative philosophy, semiosis, movement, mind, future, inter-species, museologies, archive, fiction, magic, emerging technologies, AI.
BIO:
Matías Barreto is a researcher-artist and teacher whose interests revolve around morphogenesis and artistic creation as a result of collaborations between artists, technological artifacts, and rule systems. He has diverse training in Communication Sciences (UBA), New Media Arts and Interactivity (UNA, UNTREF), drawing and painting (UTDT), and is currently pursuing a Master's in Contemporary Artistic Practices (UNSAM); specializing in the design and creation of interactive and immersive environments.
Passionate about sharing learning experiences, he engages in creating production labs to explore the intersection between art, contemporary thought, and technology.
He develops his artistic career in Sao Paulo (Brazil), Stuttgart/Fellbach (Germany); Alba Iulia and Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Buenos Aires (Argentina). He was a guest professor at the Master of Advanced Studies in Art History at the University of Barcelona.