nothing exists elsewhere
Representation is always a partial act.
A portrait captures a likeness but cannot contain a life. A photograph preserves a moment while severing it from time. A profile, dataset, or archive may describe a person in extraordinary detail, yet still fail to account for the complexity of their existence. Representation has always involved a process of translation, transforming the world into forms that can be recorded, circulated, and understood. In that translation, something is inevitably reduced. No representation can contain the full complexity of what it seeks to describe. (Text excerpt: Ottilio Carrantes)
data, didactic, and decay
Data is performing us as subjects within algorithms. algorithms. Images are nanoseconds generated before we even comprehend and formulate their meanings. Hours spent freeing up storage on our smartphones, deleting digital footprints—are these traces completely obliterated, or stored in databases among millions of others? Access to stored data, and the desire to accumulate more is determined by one’s capacity to subscribe to platform-based economies. Such a desire for more digital space is now taxed by the government. No amount of skipping ads can exempt you from succumbing into monetized consumption. (Text excerpt: Words by James Luigi Tana)
special thanks
ES SE (Jearon Sepacio), Frame of Mind (Bogart and Agnes Amarra), Francesco Ghedini, Warp Systems (Hideki Ito and Bienvenido Tamayo), PC Canlas Builders, Kate and Art Paragas, Benedict Villafuerte, KC Carillo, Marty Carsi Cruz, Anna Eleazar, Nash Cruz, Gabriel Santos, The Drawing Room Gallery
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