Metabody
(EU Projecto, Forum @ STEIM, Amesterdão)
Jaime del Val
(EU Projecto, Forum @ STEIM, Amesterdão)
Jaime del Val
METABODY is a 5 years project starting July 2013, with the support of the European Commission and the participation of 28 partners from 14 countries, coordinated by Reverso.
Metabody will elaborate a critical study of cultural homogenisation, social control and global surveillance in Information Society and develop new technocultural paradigms that highlight embodied differentials: the irreducible and changing differences of bodies and contexts, expressions and relations, not for the sake of predicting, but of developing a social ecology that foregrounds unpredictability and emergence, exceeding capitalistic appropriation and preemption.
The project will undertake a critical study of contemporary aesthetics of control, in which quantification of all activities via reduction to information patterns permeates all areas of life, subduing it increasingly to an implicitly militaristic regime of control while being presented as a desirable condition where connectivity equates liberation, and control becomes a hidden variable of the fallacious equation.
At the same time Metabody will develop new technological paradigms that take into account the changing differences of bodies, contexts and movements in their irreducibility, valuing and highlighting the importance of unpredictability for a livable life and generating the conditions for a new social ecology.
In the 4th year he project will develop a mobile experimental architecture containing interactive multisensorial laboratories for performances, installations, workshops, seminars, residencies and continuous research, that will tour throughout 9 European cities in the last year of the project as an observatory of diversity and a laboratory of difference.
Jaime del Val is a meta-media artist, philosopher, performer, director of Reverso Institute www.reverso.org and of the METABODY Project www.metabody.eu. He develops transdisciplinary projects in the convergence of arts, technologies, critical theory and activism, that have been presented all over Europe, North and South America. His projects propose redefinitions of embodiment, perception and affects that challenge the ontological foundations of contemporary control society.
Metabody will elaborate a critical study of cultural homogenisation, social control and global surveillance in Information Society and develop new technocultural paradigms that highlight embodied differentials: the irreducible and changing differences of bodies and contexts, expressions and relations, not for the sake of predicting, but of developing a social ecology that foregrounds unpredictability and emergence, exceeding capitalistic appropriation and preemption.
The project will undertake a critical study of contemporary aesthetics of control, in which quantification of all activities via reduction to information patterns permeates all areas of life, subduing it increasingly to an implicitly militaristic regime of control while being presented as a desirable condition where connectivity equates liberation, and control becomes a hidden variable of the fallacious equation.
At the same time Metabody will develop new technological paradigms that take into account the changing differences of bodies, contexts and movements in their irreducibility, valuing and highlighting the importance of unpredictability for a livable life and generating the conditions for a new social ecology.
In the 4th year he project will develop a mobile experimental architecture containing interactive multisensorial laboratories for performances, installations, workshops, seminars, residencies and continuous research, that will tour throughout 9 European cities in the last year of the project as an observatory of diversity and a laboratory of difference.
Jaime del Val is a meta-media artist, philosopher, performer, director of Reverso Institute www.reverso.org and of the METABODY Project www.metabody.eu. He develops transdisciplinary projects in the convergence of arts, technologies, critical theory and activism, that have been presented all over Europe, North and South America. His projects propose redefinitions of embodiment, perception and affects that challenge the ontological foundations of contemporary control society.
Podem visitar o website METABODY, incluindo:
You can visit the METABODY website, including:
• new presentation video - http://metabody.eu/
• forum pages - http://metabody.eu/forum/
• galleries of forums - http://metabody.eu/media/
• video galleries - http://metabody.eu/videos/
• press galleries - http://metabody.eu/prensa/
• metaspace - http://metabody.eu/metaspace/
• galleries of sub-projects
◦ metakinesphere - http://metabody.eu/metakinesfera/
◦ amorphogenesis - http://metabody.eu/amorphogenesis/
◦ and many more... - http://metabody.eu/subproyectos/
You can visit the METABODY website, including:
• new presentation video - http://metabody.eu/
• forum pages - http://metabody.eu/forum/
• galleries of forums - http://metabody.eu/media/
• video galleries - http://metabody.eu/videos/
• press galleries - http://metabody.eu/prensa/
• metaspace - http://metabody.eu/metaspace/
• galleries of sub-projects
◦ metakinesphere - http://metabody.eu/metakinesfera/
◦ amorphogenesis - http://metabody.eu/amorphogenesis/
◦ and many more... - http://metabody.eu/subproyectos/
