Image courtesy of the artist, 2023.
Laura Luna Castillo
To be angry with images for not being real, To be angry with small things forgotten...
October 5 - 7 , 2023
Part of SPAM New Media Festival - learn more at https://spamnewmediafestival.com/
ARTIST RECEPTION:
First Thursday Art Walk
October 5th
5:00-8:00pm
ARTIST TALK:
Saturday October 7th, 1pm (in person and virtual)
HOURS:
FRIDAY
Noon-4pm
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
SCHEDULE YOUR FRIDAY VISIT
SATURDAY
Noon-4pm
NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY
Bio: Laura Luna Castillo is a Mexican multimedia and new technologies artist and composer. Through convergences of time-based media, music, sculpture and generative storytelling Luna explores personal and collective identities shaped by political and intimate spaces. With a passion for machines, generative narratives and the complexities of memory, Luna Castillo has developed audiovisual performances, installations and hybrid works for festivals such as MUTEK Montréal, CYNETART Festival, and EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center).
Website: https://www.lauralunacastillo.net/
To be angry with images for not being real, To be angry with small things forgotten...
October 5 - 7 , 2023
Part of SPAM New Media Festival - learn more at https://spamnewmediafestival.com/
ARTIST RECEPTION:
First Thursday Art Walk
October 5th
5:00-8:00pm
ARTIST TALK:
Saturday October 7th, 1pm (in person and virtual)
HOURS:
FRIDAY
Noon-4pm
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
SCHEDULE YOUR FRIDAY VISIT
SATURDAY
Noon-4pm
NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY
Bio: Laura Luna Castillo is a Mexican multimedia and new technologies artist and composer. Through convergences of time-based media, music, sculpture and generative storytelling Luna explores personal and collective identities shaped by political and intimate spaces. With a passion for machines, generative narratives and the complexities of memory, Luna Castillo has developed audiovisual performances, installations and hybrid works for festivals such as MUTEK Montréal, CYNETART Festival, and EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center).
Website: https://www.lauralunacastillo.net/
Work Statement: To be angry with images for not being real, To be angry with small things forgotten...
Loss, grief and longing converge in a fictional domestic space that serves as a stage where speculative objects, technological fragments, audiovisual and new media pieces coexist in an exploration of mnemonic placemaking, entropy and affective paradoxes. Borrowing from the scientific method and magic realism, my process weaves cultural poetics, science and technology in an alchemic methodology that seeks to materialize phantasms and mirages, a futile endeavour to transform images into tangible matter. To be angry with images is an urgency to question phantasms that continuously depict something beyond reach, and of small things that get forgotten amidst chaos, grief and disillusionment.
Loss, grief and longing converge in a fictional domestic space that serves as a stage where speculative objects, technological fragments, audiovisual and new media pieces coexist in an exploration of mnemonic placemaking, entropy and affective paradoxes. Borrowing from the scientific method and magic realism, my process weaves cultural poetics, science and technology in an alchemic methodology that seeks to materialize phantasms and mirages, a futile endeavour to transform images into tangible matter. To be angry with images is an urgency to question phantasms that continuously depict something beyond reach, and of small things that get forgotten amidst chaos, grief and disillusionment.