1984

Brief description.

1984 is a work inspired by the novel of the same name, which invites you to interact by clicking the mouse to draw an eye through an audio visualizer. It represents an omniscient presence in our lives and at the same time is a tool for defining contemporaneity. Made through p5js, in javascript language, open source, free and free.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

We build the world from our existential uncertainty. Building certainty then becomes an act of adaptation and assimilation of the world around us, where other ways of understanding ourselves are possible. In a way, through art we also build a world, a world that is transformed by everything that surrounds it, including technology.

1984 is a technopoetic artist proposal, “a mixture of media and/or languages.” A hybrid, between electronic and digital devices, programming languages, sound, music, in such a way that it is not possible to adjust it to a pre-existing contemporary category other than multimedia art. Free software allows you to create and access the work, “digital presupposes the possibility that at some point the work is modified to become a different vision of itself” (Charly Gradin, digital, Tenopoeticas Argentinas, 2012, page 74), it redefines the technical reproductivity that Benjamin told us about.

The virtue of the contemporary artist is not only to create the work, but also, having his gaze fixed on his time, to be able to perceive and understand it to incorporate new technologies into his art. For this reason, 1984 also tries to be an artistic tool to interact, destroy, construct and understand contemporaneity.

Literature

Giorgio Agamben,¿Qué es lo contemporáneo?. Seminario dictado en 2008. Kozak, Claudia. Tecnopoéticas Argentinas. Archivo blando de arte y tecnologia. Caja negra ed. Walter Benjamin. La obra de arte en la época de su reproducibilidad técnica. Ensayo de publicado originalmente en la revista Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung. 1936.