DATA CONTROL

DATA CONTROL

Jose Ignacio Nieto Larrain

Ernesto Muzard 2024 Depto 36.
Providencia / Santiago
Phone-fax: 56 (2) 4300969
Mobil: 095114452
Email: ignacio\[email protected]


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: Esferapublica (Lima / Buenos Aires), Nettime Latino (DF Mexico), 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