FILE SAO PAULO 2019
Electronic Language international Festival SESI Gallery, São Paulo, BrazilCurator: Ricardo Barreto and Paula Perissinotto
Artists: Studio Tony Spark (Netherlands), Kristin McWharter (United States), Pedro Veneroso (Brazil), Witaya Junma (Thailand), Sam Twidale & Marija Avramovic (Serbia & France), Rino Stefano Tagliafierro (Italy), Interactive Media Foundation (Germany), Marc Lee (Switzerland), Nicolás Alcalá (Spain), Robin Baumgarten (Germany), Ricardo Barreto & Raquel Fukuda (Brazil)
FILE, São Paulo
Electronic Language International Festival
‘Me, Myself & I’ questions egocentrism and narcissism as widespread contemporary phenomena and their most popular, infamous manifestation: the selfie culture. The digital era emphasizes the individual, who are seen more and more at the center of society, rather than being part of it. As seen in the selfie culture, selfishness and narcissism are widespread: we send mini-me’s into the increasingly important virtual space of our society to make others aware of who we are and, most importantly, who we wish to be. Fiction, fantasies, exhibitionism, confessions, self-indulgence, and solipsism are the motifs and drivers of our virtual lives, with corporations and media shaping our (perceived) reality and recklessly exploiting our desires and fantasies, leading us further away from reality. The persistent representation of the lives of others also pressurizes us to depict ourselves, designing our own lives as an object and strengthening the spiraling staging of ‘self’ through selfies and body cults. This is where ‘Me, Myself & I’ steps in and offers us an opportunity to develop new states of perception. In the virtual environment, images and reality are perceived unmistakably and unambiguously as being mutually incompatible. This helps the participant to decouple externally constructed realities from their natural environment.
Exhibited Artwork
Me, Myself & I
Mobile App as Interface for Interactive InstallationsMe, Myself & I questions egocentrism and narcissism as widespread contemporary phenomena and their most popular, in-famous declination: the selfie culture. The digital era emphasizes the individual, who are seen more and more at the center of society, rather than being part of it. Selfishness and narcissism are widespread, as selfie culture shows: we send mini-me’s into the increasingly important more …
FILE, São Paulo
Synthesis Gallery, Berlin
Annka Kultys Gallery, London
Publication
FILE SÃO PAULO 2019: 20 Years of FILE 20 Years of Art and Technology
SESI-SP culturaBook, color, 260 pages, 21 x 28 cm
2019
Português, English
Ricardo Barreto and Paula Perissinotto
ISBN 9788589730297
file.org.br/pdf_books/file-sao-paulo-2019, Cataloge (PDF)
The 20th edition of FILE – Electronic Language International Festival in São Paulo takes place from 25 June to 11 August 2017 at the Fiesp Cultural Center.
In 2019, FILE – Electronic Language International Festival – celebrates its 20th anniversary. The festival’s main focus is to show what is innovative in art and technology, and for the last 20 years FILE’s mission has been to offer the Brazilian public the chance to experience the latest and best of electronic art.
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