SEMIPERMEABLE: SYRINGE

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SEMIPERMEABLE: SYRINGE

Brasil - Estados Unidos 2024 | Marcos Serafim | 20 min

Domingo 07 de Diciembre 17:30 hs

Cine Insomnia

This engagement with corporate generative AI exposes its constraints by probing its refusals to depict certain penetrabilities: the cell invaded by a virus, the US/Mexico border crossed, the mouth opened to a tongue, the skin pierced by a syringe. These omissions, shaped by the cultural and geopolitical biases embedded in prompts and datasets, generate distortions-feverish, sensorial images where love, sexuality, and the death drive converge. The imagery is further altered through custom computational tools for audiovisual signal processing.

Marcos Serafim

Brazilian artist and researcher working with audiovisual media to explore extreme tensions between data, reality, and representation, proposing critical and philosophical examinations of cultural and material relations between technology and minoritized sociopolitical subjects. He has exhibited work at the 5th and 6th Ghetto Bienalle (Haiti), the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Brazil), the EMPAC – Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, MOCA North Miami and the Queens Museum (USA). His videos have been screened in film festivals in multiple countries, including the Cine Esquema Novo (Brazil), doclisboa (Portugal), Courant/Immersity 3D (France), and San Francisco Cinematheque’s Crossroads (USA). Serafim is an Assistant Professor of Photography, Video, and Imaging at the University of Arizona.