MOLAA Zoom Project Special Edition: arteônica*
This special edition of the MOLAA Zoom project series focuses on the PST Art & science exhibition: Arteonica* Art, Science, and Technology in Latin America Today.
Arteônica*,-a verbal synthesis to electronic art and the original title of the exhibition that brazilian art pioneer Waldemar Cordeiro did in Brazil in 1971-frames the computer as an instrument for positive societal change, which can democratize art and culture.
MOLAA invites you to an engaging discussion that presents ARTEÔNICA, an art exhibition project that explores this little-known Latin American art movement, creating a dialogue between a group of pioneers from the 1960s and 1970s and the contemporary artists whose work responds to their legacy. Despite challenging political and social conflicts across Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, the relationship between art, science, and technology expanded during that period. Latin American artists and thinkers never stopped working at the intersection of art, science, and technology, enriching the historic legacy with pressing contemporary discussions on participation, social engagement, indigenous knowledge, autonomous and living systems, memory, and networks for global solidarity, which give rise to uncommon grounds that provoke critical and dialogical perspectives. ARTEONICA explores the history and present of electronic art from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Mexico. Within a broader context of conceptual, historical, and geopolitical thought, hand in hand with more than 20 artists, including Waldemar Cordeiro, Marta Minujín, Analivia Cordeiro, Juan Downey, Pola Weiss, Constanza Piña, Mariano Sardón, Patricia Domínguez, Marcela Armas, Teresa Burga, Martha Boto, Leo Nuñez, Gyula Kosice, Tania Candiani, Vitoria Cribb, Juan Salas, Francesco Mariotti, Lucia Monge y Rejane Cantoni, among others.
Presented and moderated by: Gabriela Urtiaga, MOLAA Chief Curator.
PANELISTS
Dr. José-Carlos Mariátegui (Perú). Writer, curator and entrepreneur on culture and technology. Founder of Alta Tecnología Andina – ATA (Lima). Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at The London School of Economics and a Lecturer at LUISS Guido Carli (Rome).
Rodrigo Alonso (Argentina). Professor and Art curator. Master’s Degree in Fine Arts, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, specialized in contemporary art and new media. Professor at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Universidad del Salvador (USal) and the National University of Arts (UNA), Argentina.
Tania Aedo Arankowsky (México). Cultural producer with experience in the development of projects working at the intersections of art, science and technology. Coordinator at Cátedra Max Aub, Transdisciplina en Arte y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
SPECIAL GUEST
Analívia Cordeiro (Brazil). International well-known artists, dancer, choreographer, video maker, and computer dance pioneer. Daughter of a leader of the Brazilian concretist movement, Waldemar Cordeiro (1925–1973).
PST Art & Science Collide logo.
PST ART: Art & Science Collide will create opportunities for civic dialogue around some of the most urgent problems of our time by exploring past and present connections between art and science in a series of exhibitions, public programs, and other resources. Project topics range from climate change and environmental justice to the future of artificial intelligence and alternative medicine.
