Sensible al código. Methodological transference between ancestral knowledges and new means of dividuation

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Fernando Portal
Universidad de las Américas, Chile
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8945-3281
María Jesús 18-08-1987 Schultz
Universidad de las Américas, Chile
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5783-5963

This article compiles the experience of Sensible al Código (Sensitive to code), a practice-based research, which explores, through the production of artistic works, non-western cosmologies as a basis for the application of machine learning algorithms. The aim of this is to explore methodologies of artistic creation that incorporate ancestral knowledge as a basis for the development and preservation of technodiversities, in the context of the cosmotechnics proposal of Yuk Hui.


To do this, the article begins by characterizing the cosmology and rituals pertaining to the relational ontology of the shipibo-konibo people of the Amazon, from a viewpoint informed by the perspectivism of Viveiros de Castro and the dividualist animism of Bird-David.


These rituals are unfolded as a method, through an analysis informed by media theory and anthropology, which is then applied in machine learning processes and in the materialization of the images obtained, through artistic considerations of their physical, visual, tactile and sound properties. Finally, the reflection informed by bodily interaction with these works and the agentiality of their materials will offer up as a conclusion the possibility of repositioning ourselves as part of a continuous flow of energy exchange, enabling speculation on the potential of these transferences to cause cosmotechnical bifurcations.

Keywords
machine learning, new animism, Latin American cosmotechnics, Amazonian cosmovisions, practice-based research

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Portal, Fernando; and Schultz, María Jesús 18-08-1987. “Sensible al código. Methodological transference between ancestral knowledges and new means of dividuation”. Artnodes, no. 31, pp. 1-12, doi:10.7238/artnodes.v0i31.402823.
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Fernando Portal, Universidad de las Américas, Chile

Architect and master in Architecture from the Pontificia Universidad Católica (2004), MS Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture from the University of Columbia (2012). His work as an artist and researcher has focused on the relationships between design, performance and politics. Relationships which have been explored through the formation and development of collective inter- and transdisciplinary projects, such as the Cooperativa URO1, and the artistic collective Mil M2. As an academic, he has worked as an undergraduate and postgraduate teacher in addition to being Coordinator of the Archive of Originals FADEU at the Pontificia Universidad Católica from 2014 to 2017. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Universidad de las Américas, where he is head of Language and Creation. His work as an artist has been presented and developed at festivals, fairs, galleries, biennials, museums and residencies in America and Europe. His work forms part of the collections of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, the Centre of Documentation of Visual Arts (CEDOC) at the National Centre of Contemporary Art and the Salvador Allende Museum of Solidarity, among others.

María Jesús 18-08-1987 Schultz, Universidad de las Américas, Chile

Degree in Plastic Arts from the University of Chile (2014) and master in Image Studies from Alberto Hurtado University (2019). Currently works as an artist, researcher and teacher. In 2021, she participated in the artistic residency of the Language and Creation department of the UDLA with the project Sensible al código, which explores the creative use of machine learning and interactive physical systems for the promotion of experiences that appear to exceed our sensory and interpretative possibilities. As a researcher, she worked in 2019 and 2020 as a technical adviser to the Fondecyt project Imágenes Invisibles directed by Claudio Celis. As a group, they published three articles in indexed magazines and developed the website imaginacionmaquinica.cl. In 2021, the participated in Ars Electronica Garden Valdivia with the section Data Extractivism. As a teacher, she has delivered university-level classes since 2015 in visual arts, art theory, design engineering and architecture in Santiago and Talca, Chile.

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