From optical devices to virtual environments, how do technological devices respond to and influence the characteristics of human perception? How might a particular conception of what constitutes experience have neglected more concrete, individual sensations? And how does this generic, uncosified understanding of the world limit awareness of one's senses? Does this affect the ability to imagine possible relationships with digital technologies? What parts of experience do we tend to overlook when we refer to these kinds of technologies?

Pantalla Párpado is a series of three activities that aim to reflect on the conditioning that exists between technological devices and perception. The sessions aim to be a space to obturate the gaze, a blinking aimed at seeking a critical distance and opening up possibilities in the links we establish with new technologies.

3rd session

Conversation with Jose Iglesias Gª-Arenal and Laura Arensburg

Based on his project "Ditches begin in Africa and end in our bodies", carried out in residence at Tabakalera (Donosti), Jose Iglesias Gª-Arenal looks at the techniques used to look at and perceive the ground. In particular, his interest focuses on the stereoscope and its relationship with the configuration of and access to colonial images. The stereoscope, invented in the mid-nineteenth century, is popularised by offering immersion in a place and extraction from a place. 

Laura Arensburg has problematised "ocularcentrism" as an activator of the Malvidents project at La Escocesa and, more recently, of the Perceptive Studies Group at Santa Mònica. These are meeting spaces for working on other logics of vision, giving space to "other-looks" that signify a non-hierarchical relationship between the senses.

Bringing together the two lines of research, during the session we will talk about and try out analogue devices: portable stereoscopes and glasses made of simple materials to reflect on the particularities of vision and the processes of standardisation of the gaze.

Photo: Tabakalera Centro de Creación Contemporánea

By the resident artists in Santa Mònica in the area of digital creation and programming

Sessions

14/06/2022 - 18.30h. Lecture "Digital perception and datadiversity" by Alejandra López Gabrielidis

18/06/2022 - 18h. Performance "After Glow Reality" by c41582028 and Sau-Ching Wong

28/06/2022 - 18.30h. Conversation with Jose Iglesias Gª-Arenal and Laura Arensburg