Queer/cuir infections between digital and material

Round table between philosophers Andrea Soto Calderón and Toni Navarro together with visual artist Felipe Rivas San Martín, author of the book Internet, mon amour. Infecciones queer/cuir entre digital y material (Écfrasis ediciones, 2019). The dialogue will revolve around the book and other topics in Rivas' work, which confronts queer theory, technologies and activism.

The book is made up of a series of essays that propose an unprecedented reflection on the recent material turn of digital media in contemporary art, covering 10 years of artistic and activist production by Rivas San Martín, of Chilean origin and currently based in Spain. Subjects such as Grindr, facial recognition algorithms, internet porn, cyberactivism, user interfaces and QR codes are analysed from the perspective of queer theory and media criticism. In this way, the intersection between art and technology is also contaminated through the intersection between sexual dissidence, politics and image, articulating a framework in which technologies of visual information promiscuously cite technologies of sexuality.

The French-Chilean art critic Nelly Richard has described this book as a "surprising memoir of work, a lover of complexity and the subtle pleasures of the interstice". Valentina Montero, director of the Plataforma de Arte y Medios defines "Internet, mon amour" as an observation of current information technologies that reveals how they "condition a dialogue with the universe of signs of our time, on a political, economic, social and sexual level". The Argentinean queer researcher and activist Nicolás Cuello, for his part, describes this book as a "cyborg poetics" that proposes a singular way of reflecting on the internet device from artistic, activist and theoretical practice.

Links:

www.feliperivas.com 

https://ecfrasis.com/editorial/ 

By: Écfrasis ediciones