The Telefonías project was launched in 2004. The proposal was a research project designed to analyze the flow of calls at the telecom office Central Juncal
with a view to materializing—through a series of aesthetic strategies—the invisible dynamics of the digital telecommunications that cross the building housing Espacio Fundación Telefónica (EFT).
The telecom office Central Juncal occupies a key location in the Recoleta neighborhood and maintains close ties with its adjacent area.
Its history developed together with the significant technological and social changes that took place during the last century.
The old telecommunications devices used inside the building were systematically replaced by new technologies that increasingly
tended to remove from direct perception the communicational process. Digital technology provided mass access to complex
systems that were easily assimilated into everyday life, but even today their inner working is a mystery for most of us.
The Telefonías project was aimed at examine technological processes from a reflective, ludic and aesthetic perspective.
The exhibition materializes and embodies artistically the flows of information and the electronic events that take place within the building.
Through the works that form part of this project, the enormous amount of electronic events that run through the building at every instant reveal
themselves and become tangible in a visual and sound experience. EFT becomes the source and the recipient of such events that we are not normally aware of.
As the hidden dynamics emerge, the viewers experience space as a larger, different and hitherto unimagined dimension.
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works |
peristáltica
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typewriters
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abaco
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spots
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jasper
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24 million
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trailers |
about the exhibition
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curator interview
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artist interview
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data network
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aditional stuff |
Telecom office
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cresta
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staging |
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Credits |