“Mindscapes”
Fernando Velázquez and Francisco Lapetina
Audiovisual performance from The Mindscapes Series / 45 min
Artist talk: November 5, 4:30 – 5:30 pm
SAC Gallery, Student Activities Center
“Mindscapes” performance: November 5, 7:00- 7:45 pm
SAC Gallery, Student Activities Center
“We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination. And we are familiar with the landscapes of our own imagination, our inscapes. We’ve lived with them all our lives.”… Oliver Sacks (ted.com, 2009)
Mindscapes (2011-2014), a series of transdisciplinary work of artist Fernando Velázquez, is an invitation to reverie and reflections. The title of the work evokes clearly the idea of mental landscapes, and dialogue with the thought of Oliver Sacks, Velázquez leads us to “see with the brain.” In this process of discovery, we find ourselves in imaginative flights in full swing imaging. We may ask ourselves: what are these pictures? What is an image in the age of data visualization?
The universe of signs operated by Velázquez weaves strands of science, technology and art. The field of science, Velázquez associates in their creative genesis, contemporary questions inquiring about the impact of computer technologies in the emergence of complex data views and machinic assemblages involving changes in perception, memory and experience.
As an artist, Velazquez seeks to create a landscape of the mind. But his intention is not to represent diagrammatically the scientific system. Resonating with the desire to “want to make the invisible visible” by Paul Klee, Mindscapes is a project of unveiling the hidden structures, tracking the drives. (Lucia Lion )
Fernando Velázquez is a Uruguayan-born, Brazilian-based media artist. His work is exhibited nationally and internationally. Velázquez works with video, installation, interactive, and audiovisual performances. He is a PhD candidate in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP, and his exhibitions include the Mercosul Biennale (Brazil, 2009), Mapping Festival (Switzerland, 2011), WRO Biennale (Poland, 2011) and the Pocket Film Festival at Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2007). His work has been honored with several distinctions, such as the Sergio Motta Prize for Art and Technology (Brazil, 2009), Locative Media Arte.mov (Brazil, 2008) and Artificial Life (Spain, 2008), among others. Additionally, he teaches workshops in public and private institutions, as well as non-profit and independent organizations.
Francisco Lapetina is a musician and sound artist. He studied with prominent teachers of the Uruguayan media such as Estéban Klísich, Nicolás Mora, Pancho King, in addition to other artists. Francisco also studied at the University level in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of the Republic. His three published albums feature wrapped in flames, she, and a shortcut towards the mount, and a distribution online ovenbird with his compositions and productions. He researches different expressive fields based on image and sound producing music for short films, documentaries, advertising, sound art installations, works of dance and multimedia performances. His collaborations include work performed with Tamara Cubas, Arthur Rossenfeld (USA-Netherlands), Marcelo Evelin (Brazil), Fernando Velázquez (SP-Brazil), Miguel Grompone (Uruguay), Gastón Ackermann (Uruguay), and presents papers internationally at festivals and theaters.
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