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00:08:46. 2021. Digital and 3D video. MP4, 1920X1080 pixels. Variable dimensions, depending on projection format.
Music by Carlos Alcántara Sánchez.
AI voice double generated by Descript.
Seve Years of Bad Luck (Siete años de mala suerte) - Mayte Gomez-Molina
Seven Years of Bad Luck is an ode to the breaking of the mirror. An AI voice double of the artist narrates a poem that condenses the traumatic experience of surrendering to other’s desires, with the loss of identity and self-stem that brings along. The idea of the AI voice double is of interest to the artist because she defends a human use of machines, one that could bring us closer to our essence instead of away from it. Using the AI voice double, the artist could hear herself talking about experiences she has not been brave enough to share in her own voice – until now. The voice AI double allows a double, somehow quantum reality to unfold – she has and has never said what we hear in the piece. The video uses ASMR found footage and 3D imagery of bodies to complete this idea of a flexible body that adapts to what others expect from it and tries to recover from that. This piece is an invitation to look away from the mirror and the digital mirror a screen is, because even seven years of bad luck are better than a life of slavery.
Mayte Gomez-Molina
Mayte Gomez-Molina (Madrid, 1993) also known as Ingrata Bergman in the Internet world, is a Spanish new media artist and writer whose practice is based in 3D animation, VR and digital video appropriationism as tools for expanded poetry. Her work explores how new media grants us an unexplored territory to find contemporary ways of exploring universal and timeless human concerns, like identity, politics, the past, the present and the future, with a focus on the body and how it is a place of oppression but also of resistance. Through her work, Gomez-Molina tries to humanize virtual spaces to make them more accessible to people and criticizes neoliberal techniques of dehumanization inscribed in media, making this critique from within the media itself. Thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship awarded by its Spanish commission in 2019, this last year she finished her MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently working as a researcher and animator at Karlsruhe’s Institute of Technology.
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