To be angry with images for not being real, To be angry with small things forgotten...
Laura Luna Castillo
Thursday, October 5, 2023 - 6:00pm to Saturday, October 7, 2023 - 2:00pm
Opening Oct 5 at 6PM | Artist Talk: Oct 7th 1-2PM
Loss, grief and longing converge in a fictional domestic space that serves as a stage where speculative objects, technological fragments, audiovisual and new media pieces coexist in an exploration of mnemonic placemaking, entropy and affective paradoxes.
Borrowing from the scientific method and magic realism, my process weaves cultural poetics, science and technology in an alchemic methodology that seeks to materialize phantasms and mirages, a futile endeavour to transform images into tangible matter.
To be angry with images is an urgency to question phantasms that continuously depict something beyond reach, and of small things that get forgotten amidst chaos, grief and disillusionment.
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For this piece, loss, grief and longing converge in a fictional domestic space where speculative objects, technological fragments, audiovisual and new media pieces coexist in an exploration of mnemonic placemaking, entropy and affective paradoxes.
Borrowing from the scientific method and magic realism, my process weaves cultural poetics, science and technology in an alchemic methodology that seeks to materialize phantasms and mirages, a futile endeavor to transform images into tangible matter.
To be angry with images is an urgency to question phantasms that continuously depict something beyond reach, and of small things that get forgotten amidst chaos, grief and disillusionment.
Laura Luna Castillo is a Mexican multimedia and new technologies artist and composer. Through convergences of time-based media, music, sculpture and generative storytelling Luna explores personal and collective identities shaped by political and intimate spaces. With a passion for machines, generative narratives and the complexities of memory, Luna Castillo has developed audiovisual performances, installations and hybrid works for festivals such as MUTEK Montréal, CYNETART Festival, and EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center).
About SPAM New Media Festival:
This year we launch SPAM, a Seattle based experimental arts festival which brings together practitioners working on the fringes and frontiers of new media art and knowledge production. Taking place at various venues across Seattle, the yearly festival consists of a program of exhibitions, performances and discussions rooted in, or emerging from, technology driven art and digital culture. This includes, but is not limited to, the projects of artists and researchers working within the fields of AI, robotics, sound, experimental video, VR, wearable technology, photogrammetry and radio.
For this year’s program, SPAM is thankful to be collaborating with Henry Art Gallery, Mini Mart City Park, Method Gallery, Gallery 4Culture, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Georgetown Steam Plant and Meany Hall at the University of Washington.
Please visit our website to see more about this year’s program of exhibitions, performances, and participating artists.