power · room

Audiovisual and text database, Python code, Touch Designer, Processing, Unity, multiple single-channel videos, media station, switcher, multiple screens, furniture, loudspeakers, projector, computers, digital interfaces, VR Oculus Quest 2, and PLA 3D printed maquette.

Four interdependent sections:

1 screening room
2 control room

• media station
• switcher area

3 press room
4 presidential room

An experimental transdisciplinary multimedia research-creation project, power · room explores political power through media narratives in contemporary Mexico. Based on audiovisual content generated in real-time and the mechanisms of mass communication in the 21st century, the artwork investigates the mechanisms in which actions of power take place, often on live media After a series of artworks in which the artist questioned how the civilian population survives in a situation of extreme violence in the absence of the state, the artist extends the quest to ask: Where is the State? Or even better: Who is the State?

https://www.power-room.mx

With deep gratitude to José Luis Aguilera Velasco