Post-industrial Digital Dysmorphia
(with Joiri Minaya, remixed by Carlos Franco Maldonado)
June 21 - July 31, 2022
Exhibited at:
Lydian Stater
Commissioned Writing:
Carlos Franco, Post-Industrial Digital Dysmorphia
Press:
Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Joiri Minaya and Nando Alvarez-Perez’s Sublime and Mysterious Grid (Cultbytes, August 11, 2022)
“First they came for our language, encapsulated its code into protocols. Then they turned it into productivity with all their Words and Excels, instigating a post-industrial ergonomic industry that made our body go feeble and its mind full of hay. Then they came for our family and friends, locking them into gated communities : home pages, revenue streams, and identities as data sets; turning the synaptic network into a panoptic one.
We were then flanked by their feeds, their speed & mobility blinding us, making it impossible to keep track of our wheres and aims. And as we grew disoriented with the content stream they added a map so as to keep track of our crawl and then a camera to remember each and every step so that we would never claim “lost”. Then as we became used to the snap and its share they added a front facing lens, and through it, disoriented and fascinated by the mirror affects across all them glittering feeds, they were finally able to lure us all in.
post industrial digital dysmorphia, an exhibition on the futility in distinguishing a difference between virtually here or reality as actually there by Joiri Minaya and Nando Álvarez Pérez, mixed by Carlos Franco, produced by Lydian Stater.” — Carlos Franco in exhibition press release
