Title: El cuarto mundo
Description: El cuarto mundo was a sculpture created by Chilean artist Carlos Ortúzar (1935-1985) and installed in 1972 on the north patio of the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center. In its first version, the work represented a warning against the distinction between the "first, second and third worlds". This division expanded the effects of the industrial revolution to a global scale and affected all beings on Earth, assuming them to be consumer goods or raw materials. After its disappearance in 1973, the work was revived to form the axis of the 14th Biennial of Media Arts, an orientation mechanism to journey through imbalance with constant movement and multi-stability. The convergence of ideas, arts, trades, culture, science, politics, technology, and collective action that marked the initial existence of this sculpture was reactivated in the 14th Biennial to explore other ways of existence. We seek to reactivate this work for the 21st century, aware of the integration of digital technologies in a large part of social processes, the infoxication produced by media saturation and the overexploitation of ecosystemic entities, now reduced to resources and services, The  catalog  addresses a series of reflection texts that complement the field of interaction between arts, sciences and nature, where more than 60 artists exhibited in 17 venues and intellectuals from different countries made up this fourth world, and invited us to move between stability and vertigo, typical of one of the most radical social transformations that Chile has experienced in recent years, after the social outbreak that occurred on October 18, 2019
Subjects: Chilean Art, Exhibitions, Modern Art, Art and technology, Computer art, New media art
Time periods: 21st century