Internet, mon amour
Subtitle: infecciones queer/cuir entre digital y material
By: Felipe Rivas San Martín
Edition: 1a ed.
Series: Colección Textuales
Publisher: Écfrasis Ediciones
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Santiago, Chile
Language: spa
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9789560920027
Subjects: Gay men; Social networks; Internet and gay men; Sexual minorities in mass media; Homosexuels masculins; Réseaux sociaux; Minorités sexuelles dans les médias
Description: The book is made up of a set of essays that propose an unprecedented reflection on the recent material turn of digital media in contemporary art, covering 10 years of artistic and activist production by Rivas San Martín, currently based in Spain. Topics such as Grindr, facial recognition algorithms, internet porn, cyberactivism, user interfaces and QR codes, are analyzed from queer theory and media criticism. In this way, the intersection between art and technology is also contaminated through the intersection between sexual dissidence, politics and image, articulating a framework in which the technologies of visual information are promiscuously cited with the technologies of sexuality. The Franco-Chilean art critic Nelly Richard has described this book as a "surprising memoir of work, a lover of complexity and the subtle pleasures of the interstice". Valentina Montero, director of the Platform for Art and Media, defines "Internet, mon amour" as an observation of current information technologies, which reveals the way in which they "condition a dialogue with the universe of signs of our time, at a political level, economic, social and sexual. The Argentine queer researcher and activist Nicolás Cuello, for his part, describes this book as a "cyborg poetics" that proposes a unique way of reflecting on the Internet device from artistic, activist and theoretical practice. (publisher statement)..
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-267).
Table of contents: title: Prólogo. Internet, mon amour o el asedio lúbrico a los significantes / Valentina Montero; title: Advertencia: entre la memoria de obra y el ensayo critica; title: Capítulo 1. Hacerse cuerpo. Flujos entre digital y material; title: Una biografía alter-Internet; title: Arte, política, Internet; title: Sexy. Net. Tres experiencias de activismo, disidencia sexual y net.art; title: Internet (pos)pornográfico; title: Geolocalizar el cruising. Notas sobre Grindr y otras tecnologías del sexo gay; title: Economías del video on line. Entre el full HD y las imágenes pobres; title: Heteronorma y resistencia digital. Una lectura a Paul B. Preciado; title: Poética tecnobarroca de un archivo homosexual; title: Sobre pintura e interfaces; title: Pintura y disidencias. Diálogo entre Nelly Richard y Felipe Rivas San Martín; title: Capítulo 2. Extravíos queer de la imagen algorítmica; title: Biometría informática y algoritmos del rostro; title: Queer codes : códigos cuir; title: Neoliberalismo mágico. Un acercamiento al algoritmo de Google Imágenes; title: Epílogo. Una poética cyborg: cuando Internet toma posición / Nicolás Cuello.