Andrés Ramírez Gaviria focuses on the translation between cultural and technological processes. His work calls into question the presumed determinacy of culture and technology and instead suggests multiple readings.
Andrés Ramírez Gaviria focuses on the translation between cultural and technological processes. His work calls into question the presumed determinacy of culture and technology and instead suggests multiple readings. By forgoing the claim to immutability, the work opens up an alternative space, where information becomes malleable material, reshaping its form and content each time again in reference to its contextual relationships.
The conventional, modern approach to the design of technology and art is often understood as a rational drive toward reduction and efficiency. In this case however, objects are reduced to their simplest constituents. Paradoxically this act of reduction leads to multiplication, as increasingly smaller bits of data accumulate.
This chain of data is manifested in our vast techno-cultural memory of which the density and complexity make all views of these data both partial and contingent and enable the production of new configurations.
Andrés Ramírez Gaviria’s work and thinking deals with the tension between the iconographies and ideologies of modernity and modernism in relation to the histories of art, design, science, and technology, and the formal grammar of translation afforded by a conception of technology based on the idea and practice of “remixability” and interaction.
