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About this episode

From 1980 to 2000 Peru went through a period of civil war that took the lives of 69,000 Peruvians (dead and missing). But access to information continues to be controlled in such a way that makes it difficult for people to know what happened then and what continues happening nowadays.This video works as a resistance strategy against this situation. It is the first step of a long term project: the creation of software that will allow access to free content sites and serve as base for the creation of video art and web art.WARMIKUNA YUYARINIKU is an audiovisual ¨game¨ that shows the insights of an application code: the matching results for the youtube search on the concepts of ¨Andean world¨, ¨women¨ and ¨political violence¨. The images found through this process will be the base for this video.People who upload information on free access sites are the ones who choose the words under which this information will be registered. The software developed by the artist aims to explore not only the images but the way in which they are classified by people. The game focuses on codes as an aesthetic practice: it is designed to emphasize and give meaning to the conceptual nature of the work. The impersonal logic of the computer transforms into a human and artistic activity. It proves to be relevant and crucial: six years after the facts, some of the protagonists of human right violations have gained power again and others await for the moment.

• Release Date

  Mar 19, 2008

• Runtime

  05:32