am (remastered)

am, a work created at dawn, the result of the impossibility of sleeping and the discomfort generated by ideas. a composition based on the repetition and “drag” of elements, redefining the creation process.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

The process from the beginning to the completion of the work took two weeks, with rest periods and many modifications of color and shape. The techniques to reach it were experimented throughout the courses and some things were taken from those experiments… the process was based on testing scales, input methods, conditionals, transformations, movements, etc. All of these processes are part of my preparation and training stage, since innately my way of creating is based on impulsiveness and outburst.

Regarding the texts that helped me give “shape” to this work, I mostly based it on José Luis Brea’s “redefinition of artistic practices.” I really enjoyed reading it, I felt very identified with the way in which it presents the relationship between “producers” and “works”. Taking off the weight of creating a “work of art” and with that work “representing” something often makes us freer in the process. and just as point 8 talks about the existence of two worlds, I believed that the code of the app could not be divided, so I decided to introduce the previous code to the final work. The previous work is basically what draws the new work.

The action of writing this text makes me think about what is written in Luis Camnitzer’s text about conceptual art and conceptualism in Latin America. I relate it to the action of communicating the entire process in which the “work” is made up. It was a problem for me to avoid that “exaggerated presence of explanations” since I don’t intend that at all. So the challenge was to contextualize the “consumer” in the way in which I develop and in the reason for the chosen tools, since as mentioned in the text, many things are not evident to the eye. Finally, I consider that the writing of this text allowed me to give meaning to this work.