Shanshui Pixel Scenes: poesia digital i estètica de videojocs retro de Paloma Chen

Paloma Chen will present the Shanshui Pixel Scenes project, which is a digital poetry book and mobile wallpaper app with dynamic pixel art scenes inspired by elements of both traditional and modern Chinese culture. The scenes, created by national and international pixel artists, contain animations and are accompanied by poems, the recitation of which can also be played on the app itself.

He will accompany the presentation with a poetry recital where he will show the illustrations and recite the accompanying poems live, as does the Shanshui shi (literally "poetry of mountains and rivers"), one of the most important genres of classical Chinese poetry, which was thought of in relation to images or concrete visual works.

Images: ©Eduardo León / ©Sangonzalo Arts

With the participation of Paloma Chen

Paloma Chen is a poet, journalist, writer, researcher and cultural manager from Valencia with a Wenzhounese family. She has studied Journalism, Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities and Philosophy in Valencia, Barcelona and Shanghai. She co-managed the Tusanaje platform, with which she co-organised the 1st Meeting of the Chinese Diaspora in Matadero Madrid. She is the author of the report Crecer en un chino and the 2021 Report of the Observatorio Sin Tópicos on the media treatment of migration and refugee issues. She won the Premio Nacional de Poesía Viva "L de Lírica" 2020 and has published the poetry book Invocación a las mayorías silenciosas (Letraversal, 2022). He performs with the poetry and music collective Textura Pluma Tumba.

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