JAIME DE LOS RÍOS
This work does not represent the network.
It activates it.
It does not produce images.
It produces relationships.
And through that small gesture, sending a bit,
it transforms the largest infrastructure ever built by humanity
into a place of encounter.
Instrucciones para encender un diálogo is a poetic irony: to occupy the Internet network — material, expansionist and privately owned — in order to perform the greatest gesture of light possible. In barely 500 milliseconds, a bit crosses the planet and illuminates a line over 10,000 km long: a form that exists and disappears in a sigh. Perhaps the largest sculpture ever made and, at the same time, the most ephemeral.
Through real connections established between people, the work activates a line of light: an affective topology in which every node is an encounter and every trajectory, a relationship.
Contemporary to systemic society and cybernetic thought, the work of Jaime De Los Ríos often emerges from the contemplation of nature, understood not only as biological elements, but also as migratory movements, data flows, Big Data or collective intelligence.
By analysing the mathematics of these processes, he translates them into aesthetic systems and generates universal works endowed with intuitive rhythms and temporalities. Slow and brief, his computational algorithms are activated through programming languages on large LED façades or screens, or through equations that require no electricity and coexist within public space.
Jaime De Los Ríos Lumbreras, born in Donostia / MEDIA ARTIST / Technical Director of the New Art Foundation collection / Industrial Engineer specialised in Electronics / former Professor of Applied Science and Technology at the European Institute of Design, IED Kunsthal / Director of ARTEKLAB, Art & Science: https://arteklab.org/
Video channel: https://vimeo.com/delosrios
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/arteklab/
Both his installations and his infinite pictorial-algorithmic works have been described by critics as Post-Nature Art or Second-Order Biomimetics; some are currently part of collections such as Kutxa Fundazioa or the New Art Collection.
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