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.

1st session

Lecture "Digital perception and datadiversity" by Alejandra López Gabrielidis

Today, digital devices perceive and apprehend the world through "datification". If perception is a gear prior to action, the sensors and databases that we build determine the type of action that these machines will project in our reality. In other words, the spectrum of what it is possible to do with these technologies is largely contingent on the typology of data we feed them. How can we encourage imagination and creativity to generate other types of data and sensors that do not serve solely for control, surveillance and commodification? Can we understand digital perception not only as a technical issue, but also as a political one?

Alejandra López Gabrielidis, a philosopher specialising in art and digital technologies, leads the session. In her research she examines the new modalities of corporeality that emerge in relation to the phenomenon of "datification", analysing the relations that are woven between data and the body from a paradigm of distributed "agentiality" and cognition.

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