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RE–FEST 2022

Agnosis

Zoom Webinar & Livestream
Monday, March 21, 2022
11am ET / 8am PT
Free

Watch the livestream.

Colombian artist Fito Segrera will have a conversation around the works Agnosis: The Lost Memories and Datasphere, two portable electroencephalograms that, through machine learning, image processing algorithms and video hardware, reflect on the construction of collective memory and the possibility of understanding technologies as tools to create social fabric. 

In the works, the social VR platforms become scenarios to travel through the memories (materialized as ghostly projections) of Afro-descendant communities of the Caribbean with whom Segrera worked during 2013. Can technology mediate our relationship with present and suppressed memories of historically segregated communities? What role have technological tools played in the representation of otherness? 

In this conversation, the artist will exchange ideas with members of the School of Digital Arts-SODA, Manchester Metropolitan University and Hyphen Hub. Panelists include: Fito Segrera, Asher Remy-Toledo, Dr. David Jackson, Marsha Courneya, and Valentino Catricalá.

To join the conversation, register for the Zoom webinar above. This conversation is presented in partnership with the Hyphen Hub and SODA (School of Digital Arts) at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Accessibility: This presentation will include live automatic transcription via Zoom and livestream. Please contact access@culturehub.org for any access questions or further needs.

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Fito Segrera (b. 1983, Colombia) is an artist and creative technologist working at the intersection between art, philosophy and technology. Segrera’s philosophical and poetic systems investigate our conventional models of cognition and perception, the limitations of Mind and our relationship with the world and ourselves. His current artistic practice attempts to use the rationality of artificial intelligence to lift the veil of the irrational by exposing the errors behind machine learning and cognitive computing systems. Segrera’s installations and sculptures act as instruments for understanding the limitations of human perception and our ideas about the nature of reality.

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Image Description: A digitally altered image of a narrow street between two rows of houses and storefronts. The different components of the images like pale clothes on a line above, people walking below, and buckets and wires strewn about stretch and slide around, elongating and collaging to distort the original image. All is distorted except for the far left and right sides which are left intact, a few partial figures moving about their day on the street.