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Every Saturday, members of a group called Falun Gong gather in front of the Chinese consulate on 42nd street in New York City to protest and meditate. On this Saturday, there was a blizzard. They stayed the whole two hours anyway, unmoved by external forces. In the peaceful faces battered by wind and snow, a combination of superhuman resilience and human folly emerges, a mix of absurdity and heroism, eliciting an uncomfortable reaction: we admire the strength of conviction while being tempted to judge the whole thing as fanatical. But here the struggle against nature has taken over the political struggle. Available online until December 27th 2020.

Lying on deep surfaces.

Lying on deep surfaces.

Context Protocol began in 2022 as a investigation in the early stages of generative image-making . The project finished in 2025 , takes the form of a triptych trilogy : three moving-image-and-sound prototypes, each composed of three internal parts. Each part addresses contemporary questions through a veiled, eerie, and unearthly register, producing a hermetic atmosphere driven by a slow, hypnotic tempo.

On one hand, the trilogy functions as an archaeological record , a deliberate documentation of the early days of generative image practice, grounded in the material traces of models and workflows that shaped that moment (Stable Diffusion 1.5, Stable Diffusion XL, and AnimateDiff). On the other hand, it interleaves this record with layered subjective constructions —text, moving-image and audio assemblages that treat the machine as both a tool and a interlocutor.

The project is guided by a practical, non-commercial stance, generation takes place offline and locally rather than via hosted platforms. Early experiments and model choices are part of the work’s record,  community-trained variants and weights have been explored and examined for their particular behaviors and limits (for example: WrongTurnXL_ WTSDXL7.7.safetensors , LightRaysEndcontrast.3.7.safetensors , RealisticReal V5.1VAE.safetensors ). Textual revision and collaborative editing were carried out with distilled uncensored models ( DeepSeek  R1 Distill Qwen 32B  abliterated ) used as a critical aid rather than an endpoint.

Lying on deep surfaces is not lying

The ambition and risk of Context Protocol lie in the convergence of two forces: intuitive, affective expression; and careful, critical analysis . The project treats deep learning models not merely as generative engines but as cultural objects whose architectures and datasets encode histories, absences, and biases. This dual perspective makes the work as much a poetics of materiality as an ethical inquiry.

Methodologically, Context Protocol adopts what might be called an intuitive reverse engineering : a regressive-forward trajectory that refuses the myth of linear technological progress . Beyond the celebration of novelty, the project probes the inertias—formal, cultural, and archival—that neural networks reproduce, and seeks to disturb them through deliberate error, layered reinterpretation, and constrained practice.

A central conceptual strand is the idea of a human deep learning : a metaphorical appropriation of the structural affordances of neural networks (multi-layered attention to pattern and correlation) redirected toward human practices of memory, semantic ambiguity, and subjective meaning-making. Machine learning excels at correlational prediction, a human deep learning privileges what datasets omit, cultural weight, memory fractures, and the contingency of experience , while borrowing the disciplined layering that makes machines effective.

The work is structured in three distinct moving-image modules: First Triptych , Fifth Triptych , and Seventh Triptych. The trilogy functions as a prototype of this hybrid poetics, each module visualizes formal and symbolic outcomes while excavating the hidden logics of its source models—the tension between randomness and control, the syntax of dataset memory, and the slippery boundary of authorship in a mediated process.

Archivo de Proyectos 1994-2026

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        Archivo 1994-2020
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Archivo 1994-2020, compila los contenidos resultantes del proceso de investigación del Observatorio de Video No Indentificado, entre el momento de su fundación y 2020, año de inflexión. Fundado en 1999 como consolidación de un proceso de investigación iniciado en 1994, este archivo mediático surge como repositorio crítico para documentar, organizar y perpetuar los materiales derivados de un proyecto interdisciplinario centrado en los fenómenos socioculturales, estéticos y tecnológicos de finales del siglo XX e inicios del XXI. Su creación responde a la necesidad de garantizar la continuidad y accesibilidad de un corpus heterogéneo —compuesto por registros videográficos, imaginarios visuales, documentos textuales y constructos conceptuales—, generado durante una etapa histórica marcada por transformaciones paradigmáticas en la producción, circulación y consumo de conocimiento.

El archivo abarca tres décadas decisivas (1990-2020), trazando un arco temporal que transita desde los últimos vestigios de la cultura analógica hasta la consolidación de la hiperconectividad digital, pasando por la emergencia de redes descentralizadas y la irrupción de la imagen generativa. Esta periodización no solo refleja cambios tecnológicos, sino que problematiza las mutaciones en las prácticas creativas, las epistemologías de la imagen y las dinámicas de socialización mediadas por dispositivos.

Estructuralmente, el repositorio se organiza en dos instancias complementarias:

Archivo online: Alberga aproximadamente el 60% del acervo total, seleccionado segun acuerdos con autorias y distribuidoras. Los materiales aquí incluidos preservan intencionalmente sus condiciones técnicas originales —resoluciones limitadas, formatos de compresión obsoletos, paletas cromáticas restringidas—, funcionando como testimonios materiales de las limitaciones y estéticas propias de cada contexto tecnológico.

Archivo maestro offline: Contiene la totalidad de los fondos, garantizando la integridad de metadatos, versiones de alta resolución y documentos inéditos, resguardados bajo protocolos de preservación digital a largo plazo. Más allá de su función custodial, el archivo opera como dispositivo crítico: la decisión de mantener las especificidades técnicas en su versión online no solo evidencia las condiciones materiales de producción de cada época, sino que interpela al usuario sobre la obsolescencia programada y la narrativa del «progreso técnico». Asimismo, la coexistencia de formatos analógicos, digitales y posdigitales enriquece su valor epistemológico, permitiendo estudios comparativos sobre la evolución de los soportes, la materialidad de la información y las ecologías mediáticas. La totalidad del archivo maestro offline está disponible previa cita para consulta pública en el Centro de Documentación del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona.

Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world.

Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain. With David Lynch is a lecture that forms part of a series of successful presentations given to students from different faculties in the United States. Award-winning writer, director, and producer David Lynch is joined by physicist John Hagelin, who was featured in the documentary 'What The Bleep Do We Know?' and neuroscientist Dr. Fred Travis, Director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition at Maharishi University of Management. Lynch, one of the few directors who pushes the boundaries of Hollywood, discusses his films and his 30-year relationship with Transcendental Meditation, and its role in his creative process.

Neti Neti Films embarks on a quest to India to capture the essence of Nisargadatta Maharaj at the place where he first transmitted his teachings to the world. The narrator, Dr Stephen Wolinsky, compares Nisargadatta's teachings with those of some of the world's most extraordinary gurus and masters. For the first time, Nisargadatta's most profound teachings are discussed in depth, including his idea that who we are is prior to the I Am and even prior to and beyond Consciousness itself. This extraordinary statement has the power to propel a seeker into the Eternal Absolute, the Primordial Advaita that can only be realized when when Consciousness itself is grasped as neither this nor that.