Art, science and technology
Exhibition of projects Present Continuous
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Presente Continuo Org was born from the conviction that the transformation driven by the fourth technological revolution is taking us to a place where conceptual frameworks and descriptions inherited from the past are no longer sufficient to understand the present or project the future.
We ask ourselves how these transformations are changing the way we produce art and, at the same time, how art can help us understand this new world in which we live. Based on these questions, we invite the fellows to develop projects that explore possible answers.
Cazadores Foundation projects 2025: Everything already exists / Latency / We were never individuals / Hermitage / Phenomenology of an opacity / Instructions for a work
Everything already exists.
Fabiana Gallegos, Fernanda Mugica, Facundo Suasnabar, Fabián Urban
The project addresses the notions of emptiness and boundary as persistent narratives that legitimized processes of appropriation, colonization, and extractivism. Starting with the topographic form of the trench and contemporary layers—such as coal mining and hydraulic fracturing—a speculative audiovisual map is constructed where past, present, and possible futures intertwine. These layers act as palimpsests that reveal geological, historical, and affective tensions, proposing an expanded reading of the territory as a tapestry of memories, conflicts, and enduring elements.
Latency
Javier Areal Vélez, Candela Del Valle, Enzo Luciano, Luciana Paoletti
A lateral and unintentional communication network among living entities. Faced with the difficulties of reaching consensus among humans through language, we created a new means of paracommunication to enable exchanges between microorganisms that inhabit our bodies. These relationships are not verbal, but rather organic reactions that connect, transform, and continue to evolve over time. We propose thinking of ourselves as territories, composite beings, interspecies systems that survive through complementarity.
We were never individuals
Penny Di Roma, Matias Jauregui Lorda, Antonella Mecchia, Angel Salazar
We are witnessing a turbulent climate where the technological changes we continuously assimilate are altering how we perceive time and space, accelerating terrestrial processes and socio-environmental crises. This installation aims to make the speed and scale of techno-industrialism tangible by exploring alternative rhythms, such as the trophic chains present in slow fermentations and the mutual adaptations seen in crops that defy productivist logic. The work enacts possible conversations by blurring common dichotomies like nature/culture, body/mind, and individual/group, inviting us to explore how affects, senses, and politics are modulated from a contested perspective. It trusts that artistic practices can borrow procedures and also invent narratives to envision other ways of organizing the commons—ways that are neither dyschronic nor dystopian, but radically decelerating.
Hermitage
Jorge Crowe, Cecilia Marina Luján, Mecha MIO, Federico Ezequiel Salgado
In all technology there is a touch of magic, something we cannot see or understand, a mystery, something unknown to us. Ermita is an invitation to contemplate our intense connection with the cell phone, an agent that mediates a large part of our relationships with the environment. It proposes a space for reflection, to detach ourselves for a moment from the device that has become an extension of our bodies. An audiovisual experience based on the electromagnetic waves emitted by the cell phone, captured and transformed into sound vibrations. The phone screen dissolves into pure light: a laser descending into the chapel like a moving body. Light and electromagnetism, in their duality between matter and the impalpable, between the real and the abstract, become an ascending movement. Reflections of another duality that runs through us: connecting/disconnecting. This work makes tangible that which we only perceive through technology. Like two layers of existence: the one we perceive with our senses and another mediated by technology.
Phenomenology of an opacity
Laura Colombo, Celeste Massin, Manuel Quaranta, Elias Sarquis
Phenomenology of an opacity It is a sculptural/performative installation that questions what lies hidden within technological matter; the energy that persists after collapse and the desire—human, archaic—to regain access to what we no longer understand. In the space, a black volume imposes itself with its dense and silent presence. Around it, a set of rudimentary tools—made from electronic remnants and metals—suggests the possibility of action: to break, to intervene, to open. A willing body appropriates the post-technological tools, where technology returns to a primitive state. The destruction of the first layer exposes the impossibility of penetrating the second, and this physical-symbolic gesture constitutes the core of the project. The work dramatizes the logic of the black box, the contemporary condition of our relationship with technologies: the clash with the limit and the realization that desire ultimately becomes a poetics of failure.
Instructions for a construction project
Paula Bruno Garcén, Oliverio Duhalde, Lihuel González, Ignacio Unrrein
The project investigates and materializes a stage performance and an audiovisual piece where the roles of authorship, direction, and interpretation are challenged through the active participation of an artificial intelligence as dramatist and director. It proposes a scene in which human bodies are placed at the service of ideas generated by a machine. Instead of the artists using AI as a tool, it is the artificial intelligence itself that designs the conceptual and scenic framework of the work. The audiovisual piece records the encounters with the AI-director, while the performers on stage execute instructions and represent images, scenes, and tensions. The proposal arises from the intersection of performance and new technologies, addressing the ethical, political, and aesthetic questions that emerge from this relationship.
projects 2024 inclán plant: Argentoratum / BotU / Chuelo / LA LLORONA / RCN_5
Argentoratum
CARPINELLO, RAGESSI, REY, REZZA, STUBRIN
In this project, the landscape of the Riachuelo coast has undergone a process of abstraction, starting with the sound and visual recording of its profile, and ending with the robotic production of a talking sculpture. The artistic object aims to represent the decomposing strata that accumulate over time and that can be easily seen from the water. The movement of navigation constantly shifts the point of view and challenges us to a poetic exercise of glocal synthesis.
Argentoratum has a body and a voice. Its song bears witness to the deep damage, the helplessness and, at the same time, the resilience of the interspecies bond. It also refers to the possibility of experiencing beauty within a situated precariousness and an economic system that encourages ruin.
BotU. AS FANTASTIC AS IT IS IMPERFECT
GATTAS VARGAS, GELATTI, MANDELBAUM, SARAGUETA, SENDEROWICZ
The installation is presented as a hybrid space that combines visual, sculptural and performative elements. Through a physical and conceptual journey, we invite you to immerse yourself in the universe of dreams. We will do so through BotU, a device that challenges the conventional uses of artificial intelligence.
BotU explores the tensions between the dreamlike and automated productivity, questioning the productivist conception of contemporary automation by being trained only to dream.
CHUELO
BUITRON, GRAMAJO, MICELI, PICCILLI, RINALDI
Technologies allow us to approach microscopic worlds and interact with what is invisible to human perception. But at the same time, they distance us from the physical world we inhabit - due to its white, rigid and individualistic nature - in addition to causing irreparable environmental and social damage at the cost of its overwhelming development.
A non-hegemonic and anti-extractivist perspective on art could be to think that the technology of the future should not leave a mark on the territory we inhabit.
Chuuelo is a multi-screen installation made from recovered devices. The visual body, fragmented and unfathomable, invites us to question the media infodemic in
in which society is submerged, in which the multiple perspectives on the same thing, far from inviting serious and responsible reflection on what is happening, disturb and suffocate.
LA LLORONA
FORCADA, GUERSENZVAIG, LOZANO, MONTOYA, MORO CAFIERO
La Llorona is a self-eroding zombie ecosystem of mud, mold, clay, plastic, motors and tears; a protocyborg that exudes fluids and slowly loses its shape.
structure, made with hoses and wires, creates an organic system with organs, veins and arteries through which the muddy water circulates and perforates the surface, creating pores and corroding the materials.
This piece arises from research carried out in the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin, one of the
most polluted water basins in Argentina. She is conceived as a mourner who, in the face of general devastation, perpetually exudes tears of mud.
RCN_5 A FILE OF INVERTED ARCHAEOLOGY
ALCON QUINTANILHA, BORISONIK, FRANCONE, SILVA, VALENTE
RCN_5 is a speculative fiction that unfolds as a multimedia and systemic installation. It questions the borders between art, science and politics while evoking ecological and corporate tensions around the Riachuelo, revealing traces of extractive technologies on landscapes and bodies. In this episode, the work presents an autopoietic bio-machine capsule from an uncertain future, dedicated to documenting the existence of a company that transforms sewage waste into biofuels. This hybrid organism combines bacteria, plants and algorithmic codes with various technologies, challenging the discontinuity between nature and culture. In its energetic and informational flows, the piece invites us to reflect on the memory of waste, the ethics of the non-human and art as imagination and archaeology of the future.
Assistant Director: Juan Coronel
Advisories: Luciana Paoletti (biochemistry)
Claudio Palma (legal), Boris.borg (technical)
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