Training, production, and international exchange program for thinkers, curators, artists, researchers in the exact, social, and human sciences, scientists, and technologists

Technological transformation has rendered conceptual frameworks and theories obsolete. How do we understand the present and envision future scenarios? International speakers and participants from across the country come together in the search for answers. 

2025 Agenda

Masterclass: "Intimate Genomics" by Heather Dewey-Hagborg

How much can you learn about a stranger from a strand of hair? In this masterclass, artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg will present the series of works, comprised of sculptures, installations, and videos, that began with this question in 2012. She will share her work using DNA analysis to shed light on new threats to privacy, emerging predictive technologies, and the trend toward genetic determinism.

Wednesday, 14/5— 17:00
Andreani Foundation
Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1987 (CABA)
Free and open access

Masterclass - Juan Cortes

Juan Cortés graduated in Fine Arts with a specialization in audiovisual media from the Universidad de los Andes in 2012. His work focuses on the intersection between art, science and nature, exploring natural phenomena and invisible forces through installations, recordings and concert pieces.

Wednesday, 6/8— 17:00
Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires (CCEBA)
Parana 1159 (CABA)
Free and open access

Masterclass - Daniel Canogar

Born in Madrid (1964) to an American mother and a Spanish father, Daniel Canogar's life and career have been divided between Spain and the United States. Photography was his first medium of choice, although he soon became interested in the possibilities of projected images and artistic installations.

Wednesday, 22/10— 17:00
Andreani Foundation
Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1987 (CABA)
Free and open access

Project exhibition

Presente Continuo ends the year with the exhibition of projects from the 2025 cohort. After a year of work, the fellows will present the projects developed during the different meetings of the program.

Content

Mecha MIO en PresenteContinuo.org
Matias Jauregui Lorda en PresenteContinuo.org
Candela Del Valle en PresenteContinuo.org
Masterclass Heather Dewey-Hagborg
La Llorona by Moro Cafiero, Forcada, Lozano, Montoya and Guersenzvaig. 📹: Eva Moro Cafiero. Based on a tour of the Matanza-Riachuelo watershed, the group created an artistic piece that questions the relationship between human beings and water and the historical link with technical objects. The work is an ovoid structure with a self-eroding ecosystem, made with mud, mold, clay, microplastic, motors and tears. It has a structure made with hoses and wires that create a system (organs, veins and arteries) through which the muddy water circulates, and a protocyborg that produces a slow, almost imperceptible, but constant aqueous movement that perforates the surface creating pores and exuding fluids to the outside. The exudation constitutes a threat to the installation that will lose its initial form in a transformation process induced (in real time) by pollution indices. It offers the spectator an experience of active contemplation and reflection on the Matanza-Riachuelo basin and the processes of industrialization and deindustrialization. Organized by: Bunge y Born Foundation - Williams Foundation. Accompanied by: Andreani Foundation - CCEBA.
Projects 2024: The crying woman
Chuuelo by Rinaldi, Miceli, Gramajo, Piccilli and Buitron. 📹: Nair Gramajo. Multi-screen installation made from recovered devices, such as cell phones and tablets, that allow you to watch videos and listen to sounds. These are screens of different types and sizes mounted at different heights. On them, you can see videos generated with Artificial Intelligence from archive images about the history of the Matanza River, others from the group's journey through the basin and future images (speculations about another possible reality). Working with obsolete technology was a decision to put into circulation devices that were left behind in the technological race and not contribute to the problem that the work is about: monotechnological accelerationism. As for the sound, audio generation programs with artificial intelligence were used, which will be accompanied by fragmented poetic readings. The members of the group are from the provinces of Misiones, Santa Cruz and Buenos Aires, and work on “water, far from the idea of ​​a mere resource, which reinforces the binary body | nature, essential for the success of extractivism and the current dispossession of non-urbanized societies,” they said. Organized by: Bunge y Born Foundation - Williams Foundation. Accompanied by: Andreani Foundation - CCEBA.
Projects 2024: Chuuelo
BotU by Gattas Vargas, Gelatti, Mandelbaum, Senderowicz and Saragüeta. 📹: Diego Gelatti. Based on the reading of the essay “On the Ends of Sleep: Shadows in the Glow of a 24/7 World” by Jonathan Crary, the working group reflected on sleep and its productive uselessness, which transforms it into a space of resistance against an extremely productivist society. The installation consists of a hybrid space that combines visual, sculptural and performative elements. The viewer is invited to immerse themselves in the universe of a bot created with open source artificial intelligence and trained from 101 dreams collected by the group. The decision not to use GPT or another AI system made it possible to avoid depending on large corporations or reproduce their biases. The different nodes of the installation offer: live performances, where actors recount some of the dreams that are part of the bot's training, to visual or sculptural artifacts that materialize the dreams such as an ice sculpture that melts as BotU continues to dream or videos projected on the walls of the room. The seemingly useless task of dreaming generates tension in the face of the functionality of bots in today's society, where all machines are expected to be oriented towards productivity. The participants decided to avoid the use of GPT or other AI systems, thus avoiding the biases that these corporations can reproduce. Organized by: Bunge y Born Foundation - Williams Foundation. Accompanied by: Andreani Foundation - CCEBA.
Projects 2024: BotU
25 scholarship holders, 7 months of continuous training, 3 international experts and 5 multidisciplinary collective projects. Organized by: Bunge y Born Foundation - Williams Foundation. Accompanied by: Andreani Foundation - CCEBA.
Projects 2024. PresenteContinuo.org at Inclán Plant
Lucia Stubrin in PresenteContinuo.org
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