ACVic. Contemporary Art Center

Exhibitions

DIGITAL TRACES AND REMAINS

From 6/11 to 5/12

Curated by :
Laia Blasco-Soplon y Joan Soler-Adillon

With: Quelic Berga, Lina Bautista, Azahara Cerezo, Tim Cowlishaw, Laia Blasco-Soplon, Enric Mor, Sara Gallego Alarcón and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Living today involves living a paradox. While the digital world represents itself as an ethereal, intelligent, artificial, weightless, and transparent digital cloud, our bodies and our environment are crossed by a dense mesh of infrastructures, extractivism, and constant monitoring. Each interaction becomes a trace. And beyond the digital footprint which we consciously leave, we exist in a digital shadow, a look-alike of data, metadata, cookies, and geolocations collected to feed surveillance capitalism, accelerating climate collapse, and putting the social balance at risk.

In the face of modern Western technological glamour, this exhibition explores spaces of opacity which emphasise the need to protect ourselves in community. The intention is to enter the debate over how we can position ourselves with regard to the infrastructures that generate these data traces which threaten our sovereignty and privacy, in order to reconsider and to build alternative digital spaces of shelter and care.

DIGITAL TRACES AND REMAINS

From 6/11 to 5/12

Curated by :
Laia Blasco-Soplon y Joan Soler-Adillon

With: Quelic Berga, Lina Bautista, Azahara Cerezo, Tim Cowlishaw, Laia Blasco-Soplon, Enric Mor, Sara Gallego Alarcón and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Living today involves living a paradox. While the digital world represents itself as an ethereal, intelligent, artificial, weightless, and transparent digital cloud, our bodies and our environment are crossed by a dense mesh of infrastructures, extractivism, and constant monitoring. Each interaction becomes a trace. And beyond the digital footprint which we consciously leave, we exist in a digital shadow, a look-alike of data, metadata, cookies, and geolocations collected to feed surveillance capitalism, accelerating climate collapse, and putting the social balance at risk.

In the face of modern Western technological glamour, this exhibition explores spaces of opacity which emphasise the need to protect ourselves in community. The intention is to enter the debate over how we can position ourselves with regard to the infrastructures that generate these data traces which threaten our sovereignty and privacy, in order to reconsider and to build alternative digital spaces of shelter and care.

Activities

GUIDED VISITS

Guided visits tho the ART+SCHOOL+CONTACT EXHIBITION

What if we were welcomed within a space, and art became a pretext for us to meet?

Contact is part of our everyday lives, but we do not always pay attention to it. The artworks show us different connections; with the body, with emotions, and also without words. Contact transforms, and leaves its mark.

Throughout the exhibition, visitors will not only observe, but will also participate; playing, experimenting, and thinking about art.

Groups: The visit may be adapted to suit groups of preschool, primary, secondary, and higher education. These special visits are also offered to groups of informal education, social, cultural and leisure organisations, family associations, etc.

Approximate duration: 60 min (the visit is complemented with an educational activity).

The visit ends in the Minispace and the interactive room, where visitors may experiment with artistic techniques, and leave their marks.