Factory Media Centre is pleased to announce that Alejandro Franco-Briones and Rolando Hernández will be joining us as our February – March 2022 remote residency artists! The pair will be collaborating on an audio-visual project to be performed live.
About the artists:
UHM (Unidad de Hinvestigación de Morbosidades Temporales) is a transamerican group interested in computer languages, time, and art. Most of their conceptual interests reside in researching mesoamerican temporal-philosophies. They have presented their work in situations like the FilMishMish transmission by Radio Alhara with the premier of the algorithmic, sonic documentary Dos Sures, and the second Network Music Festival, presenting In Xiuh Ce Amatl, the first live-coded audiovisual documentary. Core members are Alejandro Franco and Rolando Hernández.
Alejandro Franco Briones is a composer, live coder, and sound artist from Mexico City. Some of his major interests are: time-oriented music, network art ecologies, and musical/technological notational systems. He has presented papers and performances at the International Conference on Live Coding, the Electroacoustic Music Seminar in Mexico City, independent experimental music festivals and concerts such as the Network Music Festival and the Umbral Concert Series. Alejandro currently researches networked time at the Network Imagination Laboratory (McMaster University) developing the online music platform Estuary.
Rolando Hernández is an artist based in Mexico City. Although his work is rooted in sound art, the materials, mediations and outputs expand into various domains of cultural production. His work deals with the performativity of different roles: composer, curator, researcher, archivist, manager and historiographer. His artistic output is often framed as social sound sculptures. Relevant projects of his include CCADDASM, an artistic institution creating a historiographical sculpture about sound practices in Mexico; and Amoxohtoca, a thesis on mnemonic traditions, non phonetic vocabularies, and composition as an autonomous field.
About the project:
This project consists of an audiovisual documentary assembled from an online specifically-curated repository and arranged via multiple snippets of code (written live) for programming languages embedded in Estuary (an online platform). These programs will generate images, audio, text, and videos from the living archive of UHM. This project juxtaposes two connected narratives: a dissection of the influential Mexican musical composition Temazcal (1984) and its reception in the Anglo-academic music sphere, as well as an exploration of the ceremony called temazcal and of the notion of returning home.
A message from the artists:
“UHM is excited to participate in the &Now Residency program and work towards our artist talk to explain the conceptual implications of the UHM archive as well as the trajectory and collaborations made in the last two years. We will discuss the issues that motivated the necessity of a project like Temazcal 2: Forms of appropriation and colonialism that shape Mexican nationalism and cosmopolitan liberalism. ”
About the residency:
FMC’s &NOW Production Residency is an opportunity for artists and creators to utilize the space and resources at FMC to produce a new work or continue a developing body of work.
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