Paisanajes
Once again this year, Getxophoto is collaborating with the Kutxa Fundazioa intervening in its photographic archive, Fototeka, by inviting artists to create a project based on its digital collection. This time, the guest artist is the collective Estampa, which specializes in subversive and creative programming strategies using AI tools such as algorithms and automatic data extraction systems that operate invisibly on large volumes of information.
Paisanajes (Country Folk) is a counterintuitive interpretation of the Fototeka archive. Based on recurring postures in the photographs –poses, gestures and other body positions characteristic of the country people of the period– the project transforms photographic stills into moving images. This fictional choreography, or “chronophotography”, takes the archive as a starting point and creates a potential piece of experimental cinema. It is an expanded film exercise that connects bodies and their ways of filling space over different historical periods.
Estampa is a collective of filmmakers, programmers, and researchers working in the fields of experimental audiovisual media and digital environments. Their practice is based on a critical and archaeological approach to audiovisual technologies, the study of artificial intelligence tools and ideologies, and the resources of experimental animation. Estampa is composed of Roc Albalat, Pau Artigas, Marcel Pié, Marc Padró, and Daniel Pitarch. They have been selected for national and international calls and have participated in various art centers such as CCCB (Marte. El espejo rojo, 2021; IA. Inteligencia artificial, 2024 and Experimentos con el archivo del CCCB, 2024), Sala de Arte Joven in Madrid (Un cambio de paradigma, 2024), ArtScience Museum in Singapore (Mars: The Red Mirror, 2023), CCCC in Valencia (Biennal 2064, 2023), La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona (Biennal 2064, 2022), La Capella (Lo que es posible y lo que no, 2022), Tabakalera (Festival Inmaterial, 2021), Foto Colectània (DONE 4, 2020), among others. They have just received the Premi Ciutat de Barcelon in the field of digital culture.
Indoor and online exhibitions
Estampa
PAISANAJES
Nº 4 on the map
Venue: Market
Address: Torrene 4, Algorta
Hours: From Wednesdays to Fridays 17:30–20:30
Saturdays 11:00–14:30 / 17:30–20:30
Sundays 11:00–14:30
Online
Watch the project here
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