13.04.2023
5:00 a 7:00 p.m.
[Hybrid Event]
/Image: Plate XVI from the first volume of "Design in Nature" (James Bell Pettigrew, 1908), illustrating the resemblance between spiral shell formations and the bony portions of the inner ear. Digitized by Cornell University Library in 2009.
TECHNOLOGIES OF THE LIVING
This encounter will be about the diverse ways of understanding, using, creating, relating to and imagining technologies. In the processes of creation in art and science, in the processes of social resistance, of recognition, understanding and approach to nature, in processes of care for the earth, among others, we find many other ways of approaching technology/technologies, which go beyond what we understand as an extension of the body or human abilities. Our ideas about technologies in Latin America, or in divergent spaces globally, have become much more open, and in dialogues with many creatives and collectives, and in their creative works, we have been able to see how alternative and even contesting understandings cross us. It is these other understandings that we want to explore.
Technologies as that which makes life possible.
We also ask ourselves about technologies that have not been produced by human beings, is photosynthesis a technology, is echolocation a technology, is Quorum Sensing of bacteria a technology? Technologies built by communities of diverse living organisms that through them find a way to break through, resist, challenge, decolonize and free themselves and their environments from that which oppresses them, that limits life. Technologies that allow us to live symbiotically with other species and forms of existence. Technologies developed with the objective of caring for the soil, the land, native agriculture and seeds. Technologies that are not necessarily mechanical, digital, electrical or electronic, they are also analog, even abstract, felt, imagined, experienced; that are forms of existence at the same time.
We are looking for works, processes, projects and ideas that in different ways approach, work with, or propose other understandings of technology/technologies. That question the meanings, uses and technological systems in a critical way.
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