[spectre] DATA CONTROL

Tue Aug 12 18:48:35 CEST 2003

DATA CONTROL

José Ignacio Nieto Larraín

Ernesto Muzard 2024 Depto 36. 
Providencia / Santiago 
Phone-fax: 56 (2) 4300969
Mobil: 095114452
Email: ignacio_nieto at mail15.com

The exhibition will show three works:

1. la-historia.com

the project executer was investigating about art in internet (net.art) and software-art, so he thinks about changing the support could be to buy a web page. It could send messages to the guests through a button and print them to be shown as a part of the exhibition. Another plus of buying the page would be that it could have a larger range of audience (national and foreing). For this, the page  have advertising by artistic bulletines for spanish spoken people: Esferapública (Lima / Buenos Aires), Nettime Latino (DF México), MeArte (Buenos Aires), and in public spaces inside the city of Santiago.

The name of the site will be: www.la-historia.com. It will consist of: A homepage of 6 buttons. This dinamic page will talk about the Pacific War.

1. Button: About_Me
Access to a page in which you can ask about the sources of the conflict.

2. Button: Read_Me 
Access to a page in which you can read two different summaries, of a same conflict, written from different points of view, taken from the Sources searched in internet.

3. Button: Random_Me
Builts a page in where you can combine different versions of the chosen event.

4. Button: Email_Me
Access to the an email where the user could sent facts that where not included in the oficial summaries. 

5. Button: Re_Write_Me
Creates a page where the user can combine the histoty of the conflicts taken from the oficial summary, with the facts sent by the users.

Each page made by the buttons (Random_Me and Re_Write_Me) will be send to an email address, printed and exhibited on the east wall of the gallery. Every message will be put it on a transparent plastic and will include a sticker of the three directions of the Bolivia Chile and Peru Educational Departaments.

During the exhibition there will be posters with the promotion of the site and the exhbition. These ones, made on silkscreen, will be put in Schools of Arts of Santiago.

2. The North Chilean landscape, the South Peruvian and the East Bolivian landscapes.

	In the west wall of the gallery, to confront the messages printed and sent by the public, a a group of three digital photographies (of 150 X 100 cmts. each, aprox.), will be settled. Those will appeal to the noise as a visual solution. They will take as a model the distorsioned signal captured through the photo lent of tv channels. 

3. Waiting Room

To complement and strengthen the work conceptual and visually in the space of the exhibition, the executer make contact with the japanese artist and programmer Masayuki Akamatsu, and ask him to make a special software to it, which will consist in removing the image taken trough a camera faking an earthquake on the screen. This effect will work with loop; it will go back to the real image  and will start again continuously. In the north wall of the gallery will besettled a digital video camera connected to the computer. In front of it, some chairs similars to what the waiting rooms of hospitals have.

The last day, there will be a close of the exhibition including Pisco Sour a made as Peru people drink it.

Exhibition inviting to change the course of the history 

The Balmaceda 1215 Gallery continues with the exhibition season of the year 2003, with the opening of the exhibition “Data control”, of the artist Ignacio Nieto, the next thursday 7th , August, at 19:30 hrs.

The project consist in the creation of an interactive web site (www.la-historia.com) about the history of the Pacific War. Such event will be taken relatively by the audience, who will be able to compare  at the same time the Chilean and Peruvian version of it, and then combine the texts or even to add non chosen facts. The interactive pages will be printed and shown on the Balmaceda 1215 Gallery, tensioned, also, with three digital printed photographies of the distotioned image of the signal of the Chilean tv channels. A third element conform this work: a computer settled on the gallery will transmit the image of the room itself, worked with a digital effect simulating an earthquake. 

“Data Control” presents a questioning about the information systems and about the traffic of such information. The piece exposes different formats and ways of intervention of current systems: web, photography, video and a computer software can and are being manipulated from the arbitrary and human proposal. The steady condition of culture, is vulnerable to the massmedia that process all the information. 
The proposal of this artist, if even starts with the opening, it will develop until it gets its highest point of tension and saturation at the moment of the closing, therefore we suggest a visit also in that date: friday 29th of August, at 19:30 hrs.

The showing is part of the  gallery project Campo de Pruebas (Test Camp), which convoked artists to work on a specific piece for the gallery and to intervent it as a support for their works that, in this case, is also a virtual support; the work is developed also in internet. 

The curators of “Campo de Pruebas” were the visual artists Nury González and Ximena Zomosa, with the helping of the art historian Soledad Novoa.

Campo de Pruebas Nº4: “Data Control” (of Ignacio Nieto)
>From 07 to 29 of August, 2003
Free Entrance
Balmaceda 1215 Gallery, Avda. Balmaceda 1215 , 2nd floor. 
Schedulerom mon. to fri., 15:00 - 19:00 hrs.    
www.balmaceda1215.cl/extension

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