Agnosis

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Colombian artist Fito Segrera will have a conversation around the works Agnosis I Lost memories and Datasphere, two portable electroencephalograms that, through machine learning, image processing algorithms, and video hardware, reflect on the construction of collective memory and the possibility of understanding technologies as tools to create social fabric.

In the works, the social VR platforms become scenarios to travel through the memories (materialized as ghostly projections) of Afro-descendant communities of the Caribbean with whom Segrera worked during 2013. Can technology mediate our relationship with present and suppressed memories of historically segregated communities? What role have technological tools played in the representation of otherness?

In this conversation, the artist will exchange ideas with members of the School of Digital Arts-SODA, Manchester Metropolitan University, and Hyphen Hub. Panelists include Fito Segrera, Asher Remy-Toledo, Dr. David Jackson, Marsha Courneya, and Valentino Catricalá.

To join the conversation, register for the Zoom webinar above. This conversation is presented in partnership with the Hyphen Hub and SODA (School of Digital Arts) at Manchester Metropolitan University.