Mutualidad de Fantasmática Electrónica (Mutuality of Electronic Phantasmatics) is a performative and relational project developed in Rosario, Argentina, by a group of artists who search through waste containers seeking discarded electronic devices, so as to recover and dismantle them. Between April and July 2024, more than 100 devices were gathered. So far, 41 were disassembled and 1630 components were recovered.
Microwaves, toasters and irons are some of the devices used to build the overhead projectors, which show images of the recovered components, along with a video and texts that register and expand on the process. Other components were reinserted into the art-tech community, giving them a new life.
Mutualidad de Fantasmática Electrónica, photo: Sofía Desuque
Mutualidad de Fantasmática Electrónica, photo: Federico Gloriani
The modern idea of technological progress has led us to an unprecedented crisis. It is prudent to create, from the Media Archaeology approach, a discipline that proposes an alternative to modern linear temporality by interweaving different pasts with the challenge of fragmenting the future.
Bio
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Photo: Presente Continuo / Rodrigo de la FuenteFederico Gloriani
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Federico Gloriani is an Argentinian artist who focuses on electronics, obsolete media, and low-tech practices. He is an art graduate from the National University of Rosario. He has developed different projects, such as a pirate radio station and television transmissions, the modification of landline telephones to enable the sending of images, the connection via telegraph between two museums 500 km apart, among many others. Those works have been shown in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and Turkey.
Credits
Curatorship: Clarisa Appendino
Gathering and Disassembly: Buan Binario, Juan Ignacio Cabruja, Belén Céspedes, Lara Ferré
Inventory: Abril Contreras, Iñaki Solá
Design and Construction of overhead projectors: Guido Bertos
Photography: Sofía Desuque
Video: Federico García
Acknowledgements: Biblioteca y Archivo América Elda Nancy, Julia Levstein, Damián Monti Falicoff, Johana Celman + Belén Antola (Ula Lab)
The project has been produced as part of the CIFO x Ars Electronica Awards, a cooperation between Ars Electronica Festival and Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO).
