MOSAIC’s issue 203 presents diverse perspectives on how the digital cannot be identified as a simple medium, but rather as a mechanism of dependence that directly impacts the real. In this context of constant traffic, art and theory are not confined to merely representing the technological: they rewrite it, question it and inhabit it.
From an international and transdisciplinary perspective, MOSAIC 203 brings together voices that map this condition from various viewpoints across expanded borders. Renowned curator and theorist Christiane Paul addresses the evolution of digital practices and their institutional frameworks, drawing a genealogy that compels us to rethink the idea of “presence” in contemporary art.
Brazilian artist Raquel Kogan presents a selection of her works that explore the dynamics of dependency and control between humans and digital mechanisms. Through these pieces, she evokes surprise and shifts the viewers’ perspective, engaging with the interplay between reality and image.
Artist and researcher Anni Garza articulates a journey through generative art from a situated and decolonized perspective. Through her references to code as a fabric and an incarnate language, Garza proposes imagining other technologies: non-extractive, non-binary, and radically connected. But, above all, it’s about rethinking what it means to be human today.
Gerard Tomàs opens up a suggestive dialogue between philosophy and video games, showing how works like What Remains of Edith Finch can become spaces for reflection on Heidegger’s central philosophical ideas. In this video game, players not only contemplate the death of the characters but, as Dasein, are pushed to face their finitude, confronting that radical possibility of ceasing to exist.
Finally, we present .able, a free and accessible digital publication that promotes cross-disciplinary collaborations between art, design and science. It is committed to creating new spaces for research and creation and pursuing academic rigour. Therefore, it is a proposal that disjoins formats, languages and publication policies. Their contribution rescues and drives the rhizomatous dimension of the digital through visual essays.
This issue is intended to promote necessary reflections and debates: what does it mean to create, to curate, and think from and through the digital today and what new forms of collectivity, dissent, or affection emerge when machines also write, feel or decide?
MOSAIC 203 is established as a space where debate arises around intersections, fractures, and futures, with digital creation as the axis and engine of these changes.
Recommended citation: GONZÁLEZ DÍAZ, Paloma. Rethinking the digital to (re)imagine the human. Mosaic [online], October 2024, no. 201. ISSN: 1696-3296. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7238/m.n203.2501
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