22 OCTOBER
FROM INTIMATE TO SOCIAL REALITY
6 to 9 p.m. Espai 4. La Virreina Centre de la Imatge.
* Talks in Catalan and Spanish
The subversion of reality, Israel Ariño
Photographing the evident or the suggestive; going beyond the descriptive to show the hidden: subverting appearance. In the geographical space -territory and inhabitants- as the mental space of intimate experience, the poetic dimension of photography becomes.
Today I think of a self-portrait to keep the self from
dissolution (*), Sandy Moldavia
Based on the concept of extimacy and a selection of works by the artist herself, there will be a discussion about the desire of a self that seeks, through self-representation, to find in the common and the universal ways to narrate the contradictions of the capitalist system.
(*) From Anaïs Nin’s first Diary.
“Colección de cuandos“, Juanan Requena
“Photographs speak of the duration of what was believed for an instant, or at least of its fragile stay.
Of everything that was once a root and will tremble in your hands ever since. Of the marks on shared pages.
Of the ups and downs that memory always transforms. Of the perennial search that erases answers because it does not want its end.
Of everything that grows barely invisible and leaves hundreds of handkerchiefs of mist on memory”.
Erotic Notes on the Dialectic Between the Political and the Personal in the Feminine, Juana Dolores
Based on the analysis of the theoretical and aesthetic lines of my work, I will reflect on femininity from both its sociocultural dimension and its intimate sphere, exploring its capacities for disruption and its prefigurative forms of dissent, transgression, and subversion against normativity and capitalist morality.
23 OCTOBER
FROM PHYSICAL TO ILLUSORY REALITY
6 to 9 p.m. Espai 4. La Virreina Centre de la Imatge.
Talk in english
The order of the Camera
Michael Wesely work, as well as his understanding of photography, emerged from a deep interest in the camera; the three-dimensional space where light is selected to shape an image.
The term “camera” comes from the Italian word “camera,” which simply means room. Around 1989, when the 150th anniversary of the birth of photography was celebrated, Wesely channeled his work into the technical foundations within this room of light, specifically focusing on those that allow him to explore the limits of exposure time.
His unique affinity with the “order of the camera” enables him to construct images of reality in which the concept of time, other conditions of the aperture and an other idea of focus. In all these series of works he transcends the classic representation of the photographic instant.
24 OCTOBER
FROM VISIBLE TO GENERATED REALITY
18 a 21 h. Espai 4. La Virreina Centre de la Imatge.
Talks in catalan
Tanit Plana and Josep Maria Ganyet will lead this session, exploring the transition from visible, tangible reality to an imagined and conceptual dimension. Through their works, they will address how photography can be used to reinterpret and reinvent reality, giving rise to new narratives and symbolic meanings.
The Queer machine, Tanit Plana
Taking artificial intelligence by the hand and taking it for a ride where it’s not supposed to go. To the margins.
To divert it in order to shoot against all the mechanisms that constitute it, those that perpetuate outdated social, economic and geopolitical models.
It is an attempt, a poetic and political gesture, to embrace as many contradictions as possible in the creation, uses and exploration of synthetic methods.
It urges the need and desire for rapprochement in order to establish a possible relationship with the machine and beyond it. To enter into contact through play and creation in order to be able to think critically about the new contexts (and the problems associated with them) that are proposed to us through the so-called artificial intelligence.
There is no such thing as what the machine can do or what the machine does, it is not it or us. The machine is me. The machine is you.
Generative AI: from Socrates to Frankenstein, Josep Maria Ganyet
An analogy can be drawn between Socrates’ opposition to the technology of the written word (our young people will lose the ability to memorize) and the opposition to AI by the creative community.
Will the AI generation make us forget how to create? Another analogy can be found in the processes of creation with generative AI where person and machine create from pre-existing parts as in the case of Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. Can the monster end up killing us? Or, on the contrary, can it get rid of repetitive work?