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DIGITAL TRACES AND REMAINS

banal autoretrat brFrom 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.

 

Parallel activities

Surveillance and control technologies
with Paloma González
Wednesday 11/11
4.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Humus: decomposing data
with Tim Cowlishaw 
Wednesday 18/11
4.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

AI and the creative process
with Sara Gallego Alarcón
Wednesday 25/11 
4.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The activities will take place at Vic Adoberies (Carrer de les Adoberies, 4)

From 6/11 to 5/12

Curated by:
Laia Blasco-Soplon and 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 a paradox. The digital world seems weightless and transparent. But our bodies and environment are affected by many infrastructures, resource extraction and constant monitoring.

Each interaction leaves a trace. We also have a digital shadow. This is a copy made from data, metadata, cookies and location information. These details are collected to support surveillance capitalism. This can speed up climate collapse and put social balance at risk.

This exhibition explores ways to protect ourselves together. It looks at how we can respond to the systems that collect our data and threaten our privacy and control over our lives. It also asks how we can build other digital spaces that offer safety and care.

Parallel activities

  • Surveillance and control technologies
    With Paloma González
    Wednesday 11/11
    4.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
  • Humus: decomposing data
    With Tim Cowlishaw
    Wednesday 18/11
    4.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
  • AI and the creative process
    With Sara Gallego Alarcón
    Wednesday 25/11
    4.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The activities take place at Vic Adoberies, Carrer de les Adoberies, 4.