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.

2nd session

Performance "After Glow Reality" by c41582028 and Sau-Ching Wong

An interactive virtual experience that invites the public to witness Sau-Ching Wong's relationship with a digital environment, in which the performer will be present by means of a full body virtual reality equipment. The public will be able to access and participate in this environment through computers, which will allow them to interact with both the space and the performer. The performer's actions will be artificially conditioned by the characteristics of the virtual space, as well as by the participation of the audience.

With this proposal they explore the effects of the incomplete virtual experience, a partial immersion that does not encompass the totality of the senses and that, therefore, is not capable of completely replacing the experience of the physical environment. The sensation of real immersion therefore necessarily involves selective attention to perceived stimuli and the recreation - even imagination - of non-existent stimuli.

"After Glow Reality" is the first public presentation of a project that signifies the continuation of the collaborations between c41582028 and Sau-Ching Wong.

Music and sound design: Juan Cristóbal Saavedra.

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