[spectre] Exhibition - "ICONIC THEOGONIES: The presentation of the computational God"

[Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri]

Dear all,

I would like to invite those of you who are/will be around Rio de Janeiro
city in the next months to my first solo exhibition, titled "TEOGONIAS
ICÔNICAS: a apresentação do deus computacional”, curated by Alberto Saraiva.

It opens on the 18th October and will be on display until the 4th January,
at Oi Futuro Ipanema (*http://www.oifuturo.org.br/evento/poesia-visual-3-3/
<http://www.oifuturo.org.br/evento/poesia-visual-3-3/>*)

The show is comprised of a serie of technical images generated by a Ruby
code wrote by me, exploring some relations around the concept of chance, as
conceptualized by Charles S. Peirce. Poetically, the images are inspired by
the poem Theogonies, by Hesiod.

Hope to see you there!

Best,

Fabrizio


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The researcher and artist Fabrizio Poltronieri (São Paulo, 1976) displays a
series of visual poems entitled "Iconic Theogonies: The presentation of the
computational God", whose formalization takes place through the exhibition
of images generated randomly out of the contents extracted from a
computer’s memory regions. These images establish a dialogue between the
computational devices of our era and the age located before that in which
writing became the sovereign communication technology in Western cultures,
where mythical thought prevailed. The Theogony (Θεογονία) – the origin of
the gods – is an archaic Greek poem written by Hesiod (Ἡσίοδος) around the
year 700 BC. It is an archaic writing as it was composed in an era where
rational thought, like it is understood nowadays by the West, began to be
preconfigured. Fabrizio Poltronieri holds a PhD in Semiotics and
Communication (PUC-SP) and has published papers in academic journals and
books in Brazil and abroad.


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