Maquina Condor

Máquina Cóndor

Galería Gabriela Mistral,
Santiago, Chile, 2006.

Centro Cultural Matucana 100,
Santiago, Chile, 2007.

Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien,
Berlín, Alemania, 2012.

Biblioteca Nacional de Chile,
Santiago, Chile, 2012.

Centro de Arte Contempoarneo Cerrillos, Santiago, Chile, 2016.

Máquina Cóndor (2006-in process) consists –in its most recent version (Máquina Cóndor 4.0, from 2016)– of a processual art piece in development whose core is an algorithm composed (so far) by three interlocking operations:

A) – Real-time search in 12 newspapers of 333 keywords related to war and the economy.

B) – Online search and analysis of the values of the sale of natural resources which are important for the Chilean economy (such as lithium, gold, copper and water) and the values of buying and selling currencies of former African colonies, the Middle East and the countries where Operation Condor took place (for example of the dollar in relation to the Chilean peso).

C) - interleaving 9 words -provided by the lexicon of surgery, anatomy and forensic medicine- in the first strophe of a memento mori by Luis de Góngora (On Human Ambition, 1623). The disposition of these 9 words depends on the searches and economic analysis exposed in A and B, so that the true poem is not only the generated verse but the relational structure that is the product of a world expressed through the filter of the newspapers and the values of foreign exchange and natural resources.

(hacer más largos los guiones en la parte destacada, al igual que en la descripción de la obra)

NOTE: This is the true poem: the relational structure that I arranged and through which the world expresses itself in real time through a work that feeds on the facts of the world filtered by newspapers, never neutral or objective, and the hard data of the economy. The poem is not just the stanza, but all the data synchronized in unison, which, moreover, is the only thing that makes it possible.

possible.

Máquina Cóndor

Galería Gabriela Mistral,
Santiago, Chile, 2006.

Centro Cultural Matucana 100,
Santiago, Chile, 2007.

Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien,
Berlín, Alemania, 2012.

Biblioteca Nacional de Chile,
Santiago, Chile, 2012.

Centro de Arte Contempoarneo Cerrillos, Santiago, Chile, 2016.

A) – Real-time search in 12 newspapers of 333 keywords related to war and the economy.

(hacer más largos los guiones en la parte destacada, al igual que en la descripción de la obra)

possible.

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Critical References
The Fiction of Future, Mixta, 2021, Paris, France.
Christian Anwandter

The Neobaroque Prose of the World, Máquina Cóndor, Galería Gabriela Mistral, 2006, Santiago, Chile.
Sergio Rojas

PLÁSTICA-CHILE: Plan Cóndor in a Conceptual Key, Inter Press Service, September, 2006. Rome, Italy.
Daniela Estrada

CHILE: Disturbing Exhibit Combines Technology, Human Rights, Art, Inter Press Service, September, 2006. Rome, Italy.
Daniela Estrada

Mensenrechtenschendingen Worden Cyberkunst, Moondial Nieuws, October, 2006. Brussel, België.
Daniela Estrada

The Redemption of the Chilean Condor, ABC, September 15, 2006. Madrid, Spain.
Nilo Casares
Interviews
Digital Matters Are a Problem That Totally Belongs to Language, Digital Culture Chile, 2018, Santiago, Chile.
Carolina Gaínza

An Interview with Demian Schopf, Arts and Media Platform (PAM), 2016, Santiago, Chile.
Valentina Montero
Total Explanation of the Algorithm (4.0 version, 2016)
Total Explanation of the Algorithm 4.0
Demian Schopf

Máquina Cóndor 4.0
2016
Monitor exhibiting in real time a stanza generated by the machine, the generative process and a total explanation of the algorithm in a diagrammatic structure (see headline of this gallery). Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo Cerrillos, Santiago, Chile.

Máquina Cóndor 4.0
2016
Scaffolding structure, ninety dismantled 5,5’ television sets, OKI 320 continuous-form printer, three LED alphanumeric panels, server, PC components, arduinos and a 19’ monitor, 110 x 500 x 360 cm. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Cerrillos, Santiago, Chile.

Máquina Cóndor 4.0
2016
Surveillance camera detecting the presence of the spectator to show him in one of the TV’s in real time.

Máquina Cóndor 4.0
2016
Surveillance camera detecting the presence of the spectator to show him in one of the TV’s in real time. Detail of this image and the TV’s with stanzas generated through the collected data.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Online text generator based on a series of logical-relational data applied to the search of keywords linked to economics and war in five online newspapers. The search engine’s output activates a writing engine that operates on a four-verse stanza by the Spanish Baroque poet Luis de Góngora where it inserts words related to surgery, forensic medicine and anatomy. Scaffolding structure and ninety dismantled 5,5' television sets, OKI 320 continuous-form printer, three alphanumerical LED panel displays, server, PC components and 19” monitor, 110 x 250 x 360 cm. Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Frontal view.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Online text generator based on a series of logical-relational data applied to the search of keywords linked to economics and war in five online newspapers. The search engine’s output activates a writing engine that operates on a four-verse stanza by the Spanish Baroque poet Luis de Góngora where it inserts words related to surgery, forensic medicine and anatomy. Monitor exhibiting in real time a stanza generated by the machine, the generative process and the algorithm in a diagram.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Monitor while beginning a new generative cycle showing all the search keywords.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Posterior view.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
OKI 320 continuous-form printer printing in real time generated stanzas.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
In real time generated an printed stanzas and dismantled 5,5' TV sets.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
In real time generated an printed stanzas.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
5,5' TV set showing a in real time generated stanza.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Alphanumerical LED displays showing a in real time generated stanza.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
5,5' TV set showing a in real time generated stanza.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Máquina Cóndor Hardware with DAC cards, three 12 port multiplexors and other PC components.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Máquina Cóndor Hardware and dismantled 5,5' TV sets.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Máquina Cóndor Hardware, Video cards to convert digital signals into analog ones in order for these to transmit the texts generated by the machine through coaxial cables, into twelve old 13 inches TV’s from the eighties.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Online text generator based on a series of logical-relational data applied to the search of keywords linked to economics and war in five online newspapers. The search engine’s output activates a writing engine that operates on a four-verse stanza by the Spanish Baroque poet Luis de Góngora where it inserts words related to surgery, forensic medicine and anatomy. Scaffolding structure and twelve 14’ television sets collected from flea markets, 110 x 250 x 300 cms., Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile, 2006.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Frontal view.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Lateral view.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Discalibrated 14' TV set transmitting a monochrome digital signal.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Two 14' TV sets transmitting monochrome digital signals.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Online text generator based on a series of logical-relational data applied to the search of keywords linked to economics and war in five online newspapers. The search engine’s output activates a writing engine that operates on a four-verse stanza by the Spanish Baroque poet Luis de Góngora where it inserts words related to surgery, forensic medicine and anatomy. Digital advertising billboard in Santiago de Chile downtown.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Detail.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2006
Website displaying, in real time, a stanza generated by the machine as well as its generative process in a diagramatic structure. Online text generator based on a series of logical-relational data applied to the search of keywords linked to economics and war in five online newspapers. The search engine’s output activates a writing engine that operates on a four-verse stanza by the Spanish Baroque poet Luis de Góngora where it inserts words related to surgery, forensic medicine and anatomy. Screenshot of the website www.maquinacondor.com

Máquina Cóndor 2.0
2012
Beamed website displaying, in real time, a stanza generated by the machine as well as its generative process in a diagramatic structure. Online text generator based on a series of logical-relational data applied to the search of keywords linked to economics and war in five online newspapers. The search engine’s output activates a writing engine that operates on a four-verse stanza by the Spanish Baroque poet Luis de Góngora where it inserts words related to surgery, forensic medicine and anatomy. Kunstraum Kreuzberg – Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

Máquina Cóndor 3.0
2012
On 2012, Máquina Cóndor was connected to a seismometer, in such a way that the generated prose began to depend on a double conjunction: the words searched and ranked on the newspapers and the telluric waves produced by the presence of the spectator and the Earth; always restless. In addition, words from surgery, anatomy and forensic medicine (inserted on a gongorian matrix) were replaced by complete fragments extracted from the posthumous work Mundus Subterraneus (1665) by Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680), where it’s proposed that the Earth is a living organism and is compared with the human body. The machine as such was composed by a shop window, a server, PC components, two seismometers and two dismantled 17 inches’ monitors. Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago de Chile.

Máquina Cóndor 3.0
2012
Lateral view.

Máquina Cóndor 3.0
2012
Search for keywords in newspapers.

Máquina Cóndor 3.0
2012
Seismometer.

Máquina Cóndor 3.0
2012
Telluric waves produced by the presence of the spectator and the Earth.

Máquina Cóndor 3.0
2012
Fragment from Mundus Subterraneus by Athanasius Kircher that goes: “The world, together with all the globe systems, was in the first place made for God."

Máquina Cóndor 3.0
2012
Fragment from Mundus Subterraneus by Athanasius Kircher that goes: “The food from nature cooked by Vulcan with hard labor in the great kitchen located in the receptacles of the caves, are conveniently distributed to every corner through little canals that perform as the veins of this great body."

Máquina Cóndor 3.0
2012
Fragment from Mundus Subterraneus by Athanasius Kircher that goes: “The air current avoids the fire from extinguishing and water from rotting or freezing."

Máquina Cóndor 3.0
2012
Fragment from Mundus Subterraneus by Athanasius Kircher that goes: “Divine knowledge built this mansion, destined to mankind."

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2007
Online text generator based on a series of logical-relational data applied to the search of keywords linked to economics and war in five online newspapers. The search engine’s output activates a writing engine that operates on a four-verse stanza by the Spanish Baroque poet Luis de Góngora where it inserts words related to surgery, forensic medicine and anatomy. Scaffolding structure, locker and twenty five dismantled 5.5' television sets, OKI 320 continuous-form printer, three alphanumerical LED panel displays, server, PC components and 19' monitor, Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile, 2007.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2007
Dismantled 5,5' TV sets, printed stanzas and locker.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2007
Dismantled 5,5' TV sets and locker.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2007
Detalle de hardware Máquina Cóndor.

Máquina Cóndor 1.0
2007
Printed stanzas.