Tecnoflâneurs y faquires: El arte al otro lado de la brecha digital

In this article we look at four international artists whose art has its origin in common civilian life and its concerns. The story of this art should be re-written in terms of a historiography of the average underprivileged common person, who does not reap the benefits of a discriminatory economy. A...

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Veröffentlicht in:Hart 2021-07 (9), p.117-138
Hauptverfasser: Mukhopadhyay, Tirtha Prasad, Thompson, Reynaldo
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Zusammenfassung:In this article we look at four international artists whose art has its origin in common civilian life and its concerns. The story of this art should be re-written in terms of a historiography of the average underprivileged common person, who does not reap the benefits of a discriminatory economy. Artists discussed here, namely, Daniel Cruz (Chile), Gilbert Prado (Brazil), Kausik Mukhopadhyay (India) and Probir Gupta (India) have been creating art on the impoverished side of the digital innovation divide, in their own niche and horizons of belief. Discarded gadgets, scraps, broken circuits or sensors, microphones and other junk are incorporated to create fragile but impactful installations. Junk animism and low-fi artificial intelligence often inform their work. Such artists do not inhabit traditionally known borders of nation, class or identity but only a space across fault lines which divide and exacerbate human society from within. Cruz’ project titled Surfonic exists on the margins of internet gateways. Mukhopadhyay uses scrap media for his installations. They exploit so much technology as just to animate their art. This commitment to voluntary defeatism upends a culture of spectacle. The artist is like a flaneur or technological fakir, quintessentializing human experience against the greed and pretensions of a global market of art. En este artículo examinamos el trabajo de cuatro artistas internacionales cuyo arte se origina en la vida cotidiana y sus preocupaciones. Argumentamos que es preciso abordar este tipo de arte a partir de una nueva historiografía capaz de registrar el quehacer de las personas comunes carentes de privilegios, que no cosechan las ventajas de una economía discriminatoria. Los artistas en cuestión (Daniel Cruz de Chile, Gilbertto Prado de Brasil, Kausik Mukhopadhyay y Probir Gupta de India), producen arte desde el lado empobrecido de la brecha digital, dentro de sus propios nichos y horizontes de creencia. Sus obras incorporan artefactos descartados, restos de circuitos o sensores descompuestos, micrófonos y otros desechos, y crean a partir de todo ello instalaciones que son tan frágiles como efectivas. Es un arte a menudo permeado por un animismo de los desechos y una inteligenciaartificial de baja definición. Estos artistas no habitan dentro de las fronteras tradicionalmente conocidas de las naciones, las clases o la identidad; se sitúan más bien en un espacio que atraviesa aquellas líneas de falla que dividen y exacerban a la
ISSN:2539-2263
2590-9126
DOI:10.25025/hart09.2021.07