Tearing the time.

.introduction

Our project is about TIME and the CITY, we unfold the time  ,we responded to this experience of  time in London  creating a video ,  and by creating some collages made from tearing the paper.

We form a triangle  Charkie, Luisa and the seagull ,we explore  three areas of the city across three times: past ,present and future, the three areas are Westminster Abbey, Barbican and Canary Warf .

I will explain the three areas in a chronological way, starting from the oldest area.

.process

Westminster Abbey,is the ancient soul of the place and the way they support the new  it is how it looks.

The place reminds me of Fra Angelico. it is a resting place, an oasis of spiritual London, we unfold  the time, going back and forward on time everything is happening now.  the connection between things. The priest goes up to a 800 years old pulpit and we travel up to the staircase, the building exist then and now. old and new can coexist

we both like the texture of this place , the result of human interaction , the mark making on the stones.

Ptolemy Dean the Arquitect of the staircase of Westminster talks about verticality, I response to this experience of been at Westminster Abbey with verticals and horizontals lines, I tore and stick papers in the middle of the collage that represent the stones of history with marks left behind, they are boxes of information.

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The concept of time started at Barbican with a conversation between Charkie and I

At the Barbican we sensed the different speed of the people depending on the time of the day, the movement of the water depending on the direction the wind was blowing , the seagull came toward us and stopped  in front of us it remained stationary ,whilst  people ,wind and water were moving. The oldest there is at the Barbican is the water and the music, they play Vivaldi, the building is modern and has been built as  a beacon of hope for the future.

The time came up in our conversation, time being, the past of London  the present and the future of London  .

I saw the exhibition of Lee Krasner at Barbican and I was fascinated by the colours, the materials she used and the layering of different papers, this process of working influence me. My response of to the exhibition and the time spend in Barbican, was  a collage  layering papers that I collected in different times ,and looking for the interaction between the forms and the colours, I used the leaflet of the exhibition ,some papers I found at the Barbican and some old papers I had at home to create a collage,  this different papers gives the sense of history of the marks left behind.

 this is the connection with the film I have produce with Chalkie. Layers of time, layers of images, and finding the forms in between and the shapes that interact with the color.

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Canary Warf  is commercial, new, there is no smiles ,is almost sterilize, because there is no layers a of history. We visited the Dockland museum of London and everything was about lines, destroyed bouts full of lines , the deconstruction for the fire, the lines of the past and the lines of the present, we  recorded images from the present and we response with a video layering the images from the other areas together .

My response is a drawing made with pieces of a broken etching I destruction the etching and I reconstruct again ,now is a new drawing with the pieces of etching left behind, is the analogy of the destruction produced for the two fires  of London .

 the Final work in collaboration.

WE produce a VIDEO  after this three experience , In this video we are showing opposite places of London  at different times , all is happening at the same time in the video, The images that we have chosen are water,air,seagull and buildings  ,the first three have been always there,the buildings are new, the buildings of the present,

 The bouts, buildings, us and seagulls are cradled between the earth and the sky ,this can be seen in the video how they are situated in between, At the same time the sky is coming toward us forces against one to another ,the opposites.

We are layering  the photos to have the feeling that is  happening now.

We don’t add any sound because we leave the original sound of what is there at that moment.

. I keep always the art leaflets and once i have read them I destroy them and I collage them or I Paint on it, I’m exploring the interactions with forms and colours, also I’m layering different papers and sometimes I go farther saturating the the image , scratch and write something on it. I like the marks left behind and the history of the manipulation of the materials. Why to broken a finish collage???because taking risks is the way to have new thoughts, also is good for me to broken patterns. Why tearing paper? is the starting point of call and respond process, a paper with no marks doesn’t motivates me, I need to make some marks and from there i can respond with another shape or mark. MARK BRADFORD IS AN INFLUENCE FOR SOME OF MY RESEARCH.

Luisa Mascaro Collage.

This collage is a response from the romans letters, I saw the forms and the shapes in between the Romans letters when I was at London museum . When i arrived home I cut some letters from magazines and start exploring the forms , colours and the textures of layering paper, as a result i did a very small collage( the size of a train ticket), I thought that i will need a ticket to navigate London, why not an artistic train ticket?

perceptions, different ways of looking things, of feeling things, of expresing things, we all have different backgrounds we can not see and feel in the same way,but we can develop the understanding of other perception, I did some drawing changing the perception, i just cut this drawing and change direction and stick them again, it looks and feel different. Rauchemberg paintings have a lot of information, and a lot of different perceptions,even if the message of him is just one, but you can look in different ways, we practice this in the performance,we look things different we express ourselve different,we did noises and we were doing different noises, we have layers and layers of information that doesnt le us be free of thinking. this images are just research for texture, and the interaction between forms and colors, I try not let the conscious take to lead.

I research for artist that inspires me with the shapes ,mark making and movement.

The movement of London. and the stillness of London, when im quite in the City i can see shapes and volum, when Im busy I see lines.

I sit in silence squares and i see silence shapes, Martin Puyear is a great ARtist that i really admire for the materials and the minimal shapes.

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This century is characterized by accelerated technological progress whose rapid application is driving changes in society. Technology, to some extent, already dictates the way we live.

AI developments have contributed to improvements in our lives, such as chess-playing programs, machine translation devices, and soon-to-come self-driving cars. However, AI can also threaten our individuality, feeding our unconscious with width a steady stream of biased propaganda.  It is entirely possible that we do not have free will any more. The information that we absorb every day has an effect on our decisions. And our governments allow that.

Humans seem to have an obsession with progress. To make the world a better place, but also to compete against other countries. In my opinion, mankind faces three main problems: nuclear weapon proliferation, climate change, and technological disruption. The solution to these three problems requires global cooperation.

 Fei FEi Li says that “Technology may not always make the world better, it can make so many good things but there are also risks and pitfalls; we can deploy technologies that help humans live better and healthier and work more safely and productively”. Regarding this question, Yun Noah Harari also says “What will happen to society and daily life when non conscious but highly intelligent algorithms know us better than we know ourselves? “. More specifically, Harari regards dissatisfaction as a “deep root” of human reality and, as such, related to biological evolution. He also posits that a new class of people will emerge, the unemployable. Machines will replace humans in certain tasks. This lack of occupation may result in more criminal behaviour and substance abuse.

In my manifesto, I strive to represent “Coexistence”, the union of two poles, Yin and Yang, feminine and masculine… AI and humans. To illustrate this marriage of opposites, I use the painting “The American Gothic” by Grant Wood. I deconstruct this painting and reconstruct it by adding new images by other painters such as Georgia O’Keeffe (“The white flower”) and Piet Mondrian (‘’The abstract tree”).  I use these two works of art as symbols of the dualities mentioned above.

This marriage can work if we find the right balance between humans and AI.  My collage includes a written message talking about both the solution and the dangers: “Global cooperation. Not technological disruption”. Without global cooperation, eventually it will not be possible to save one part of the world and leave another part alone to pay the price for the negative consequences of technological disruption. 

To find a solution for the three problems mentioned above, we have to do it together or it will not happen.

I would like to write a piece of the manifesto group , How a human could feel in 200 years time if we are not aware of the dangers of Ai.

This life that I life is a deprivation of living ,this is a continuous dying ,what kind of life is this if I disconnect from myself to find hopes in been connected to you.

Bibliography.

The book Sapiens. Yun Noah Harari

Conferences of Fei Fei Li-You tube

Conferences of Yun Noah Harari- your tube

AI Exhibition-Barbican Center.

History of Technology – Wikipedia

The painting of Grand Wood ¨American Gotic¨ has been widly parodie, in my reserarch I found Gordon Parks photographer his photo ¨the New Tide¨ showing one persone representing a group of people , inspires me to make a photo with a head of a human(one head representing a group of people) divided in different sections but I decided to do a gauche painting of a human head with varios parts and each part is coloured with different colours representing varios thoughts ,my intention was to draw on each section different microships.