Tag: validación institucional
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The author that the law requires
Second movement on origin: what the law truly seeks when it seeks an author. In a previous text, I maintained that we have a cultural obsession with origin: we want to know where a work comes from, through whose hand it passed, what process produced it, as if its value depended on the purity of its provenance. That text…
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The hand signing the file
When authenticity ceases to be a judgement and becomes signed metadata. In a previous text, I maintained that in the age of AI-driven suspicion, the value of the handmade shifts from the surface of the image to its provenance: it is not the hand that holds more value, but the hand that...
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Declaring to avoid debate
On the declaration of 'Bien de Interés Cultural' as a device, regarding Extremadura. There is a silent way to win an argument: to make it impossible to discuss. Not through prohibition or censorship, but through a more elegant gesture: elevating the object in dispute to a category that places it above debate. In…
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The Credible Hand
What happens to the value of the handmade when the first thing we ask before an image is where it came from. For centuries, the value of a work was discussed by looking at it. One could disagree on the result, but the question operated on something present: this is what there is, let us judge it. The era of…
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What the system renders improbable
Sobre la ignorancia como producto de las infraestructuras digitales Hay una idea cómoda sobre la información que conviene desmontar: la de que vivimos rodeados de ella, que el problema de nuestra época es el exceso, que nunca hubo tanto disponible al alcance de cualquiera. Es verdad a medias, y la mitad que falta es la…
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Art that no human would see
Why art between machines is a theoretical problem rather than a technical one. Suppose a system that generates forms and another that evaluates them, transforms them and returns something, and so on in a closed loop, without any human observing, neither before, during, nor after. Would there be art in that? The question appears to be one of science…
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Curating that which is never the same twice
The curatorial problem of generative art. A gesture defines the profession of the curator: deciding what is hung, where, under what light, next to what, and for how long. That gesture presupposes something so obvious it is rarely articulated: that an object exists. A thing that is there, identical to itself, and which…
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When the frame defines the picture
Sobre cómo la institución y el contexto producen la experiencia artística Recientemente leí una noticia que no me sorprende y que tampoco me deja de hacer sonreír. Alguien publicó en una red social una pintura real de Monet —Nenúfares— presentándola como una imagen generada por inteligencia artificial, y pidió a la comunidad que explicara por…
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Look first, study later
Sobre la autonomía ontológica del acontecimiento artístico Llevo unos días recuperando una pregunta aparentemente ingenua que me hago desde joven. Si cuando vamos al cine vemos primero la película y luego, si nos interesa, leemos sobre ella, ¿por qué con el arte contemporáneo damos por hecho que tenemos que estudiarlo antes de poder mirarlo? Me…