• Part of the PhD-Workshop «Imagination as a Site of Struggle»
In this presentation, I will perform three to five translated poems from Closed Surveillance Circuit (Cielo Santo, 2024), a poetry book I wrote as an essayistic proposal about the technological impact on analog lives. This book, now in its second Spanish edition, uses the vehicle of poetry to critically engage with themes such as hardware, software, the obsolete binary between natural and artificial, and the experience of human animals as they mediate their lives through technological devices. This essay, camouflaged as poetry, makes a strong point about writing from the most vulnerable part of the self, as an entity sometimes filled with joy and at other times with horror and despair while facing this new hyper-technological era. The poems in this book are not inspired by other poets or schools of poetry, but by new media and technology academics such as Geert Lovink, Wendy Chun, Donna Haraway, Mark Fisher, Remedios Zafra, and Jonathan Crary, among many others. This brief performance will be accompanied by excerpts from the audiovisual experience that accompanies the recital of the book, which includes music, 3D, VR, and appropriated video as a proposition for the audience to enter a state of meditative immersion without the need for a headset.
Chair: Helen V. Pritchard, Shaka McGlotten, Ines Kleesattel, and Lucie Kolb.
Biografie
Mayte Gómez Molina is a writer, researcher and new media artist who uses writing is the backbone of a practice based on the digitally produced image. Winner of the National Young Prize of Poetry of Spain in 2023, she is currently a PhD student of the MAKE/SENSE Program at Basel Academy of Art and Design.