For this Screen Walk, Felipe Rivas San Martín presented a multidimensional tour of three projects that experiment with computational algorithms from political memory and Latin American queer speculation: El sueño neoliberal, (2015) in which the iconic image of the Chilean coup d'état of 1973 is interpreted successive times by Google's Deep Dream until it becomes unrecognizable; Un archivo inexistente, (2023) that builds a denied queer Latin American photographic archive using generative AI; and Sacred Artificial Bible (2023), a science fiction that builds a techno-mystical universe to address AI.
Felipe Rivas San Martín (Valdivia, 1982) is a Chilean visual artist, essayist and sexual dissident activist. He holds a PhD in Art from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). His work emerges from the intersection between queer criticism, the archive and technology from the South. His work is part of public and private collections such as the Reina Sofia Museum (Spain); 21c Museum (USA); MUNTREF (Argentina); MAC of Chile, Solidarity Museum Salvador Allende (Chile), Collection of the Ministry of Cultures of Chile, among others. He is co-founder of the Colectivo Universitario de Disidencia Sexual, CUDS (2002-2019). He is the author of the book "Internet, mon amour: queer/cuir infections between the digital and the material" (Écfrasis ediciones, 2019) and co-author of the "Sacred Artificial Bible" with Jaime San Martín Amador (Estudio San Martín, 2023).
Screen Walks is a series of live-streamed artist/researcher-led explorations of online spaces and artistic strategies designed to illuminate a thriving – often overlooked – digital cultural scene. A new online collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery, UK and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. Screen Walks is kindly supported by: Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.