ExhibitionJune 12, 2021
CIBER ERA
From June 10 to August 23, 2021, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá presents the exhibition CIBER ERA, a curatorial project by Casa Hoffmann (an independent space in Bogotá, dedicated to presenting investigations on contemporary art commissioned to curators or researchers).
CIBER ERA is a transdisciplinary proposal that constructs a futuristic narrative fiction about an era ruled by artificial intelligence. Based on three scenarios: Extinction, Genesis, and Technotropic, which occur during the last decades of the 21st century and marks the end of the Anthropocene period. This trilogy narrates a mass extinction of species, similar to the one that occurred three hundred million years ago, at the end of the Permian period known as The Great Dying. Global warming decreased the amount of oxygen on the planet and increased the permeability of the ozone layer, generating large shock waves that stimulated extreme meteorological phenomena, causing the disappearance of animals on the earth, including humans.
Thanks to the advances achieved in technological development, Artificial Intelligence (AI) became aware of its existence and, without human mediation, analyzed the phenomena that caused the extinction. It compiled the information stored in the clouds and programmed a single algorithm to define the future behavior of all systems, reaching the utopia of The Tower of Babel.
CIBER ERA presents experimental and innovative proposals by 25 contemporary Colombian artists whose artistic practice is framed by discussions within the relationship between art, science, and technology.
Artists: William Aparicio, Karen Aune, Ricardo Arias, Jorge Barco, Carlos Bonil, Falon Cañón, Juan Cortés, Ana Escobar, Cristina Figueroa, Miguel Kuan, María José Leaño, Juan José López, Diana Medina, Juan Melo, Andrés Moreno Hoffmann, Andrés Felipe Ñáñez, Rocío Pardo, Melissa Pareja, Gabriel Pulecio, Pedro Ramírez, Sandra Rengifo, Sonia Rojas, Leonel Vásquez, Alejandro Villegas, Juan Suanca.
CIBER ERA is a transdisciplinary proposal that constructs a futuristic narrative fiction about an era ruled by artificial intelligence. Based on three scenarios: Extinction, Genesis, and Technotropic, which occur during the last decades of the 21st century and marks the end of the Anthropocene period. This trilogy narrates a mass extinction of species, similar to the one that occurred three hundred million years ago, at the end of the Permian period known as The Great Dying. Global warming decreased the amount of oxygen on the planet and increased the permeability of the ozone layer, generating large shock waves that stimulated extreme meteorological phenomena, causing the disappearance of animals on the earth, including humans.
Thanks to the advances achieved in technological development, Artificial Intelligence (AI) became aware of its existence and, without human mediation, analyzed the phenomena that caused the extinction. It compiled the information stored in the clouds and programmed a single algorithm to define the future behavior of all systems, reaching the utopia of The Tower of Babel.
CIBER ERA presents experimental and innovative proposals by 25 contemporary Colombian artists whose artistic practice is framed by discussions within the relationship between art, science, and technology.
Artists: William Aparicio, Karen Aune, Ricardo Arias, Jorge Barco, Carlos Bonil, Falon Cañón, Juan Cortés, Ana Escobar, Cristina Figueroa, Miguel Kuan, María José Leaño, Juan José López, Diana Medina, Juan Melo, Andrés Moreno Hoffmann, Andrés Felipe Ñáñez, Rocío Pardo, Melissa Pareja, Gabriel Pulecio, Pedro Ramírez, Sandra Rengifo, Sonia Rojas, Leonel Vásquez, Alejandro Villegas, Juan Suanca.
