Offline curatorial project
!!!Sección ARTE (ART Section) is an offline curatorial project that exists within the Paquete Semanal (Weekly Package), the most notable phenomenon within the alternative digital context of the Island. It is a portfolio of digital content focused on art, monthly, whose scope is as broad as that of the Package itself. However, its link with this phenomenon is deeper. Both are based on a directory of folders without an Internet connection and are experienced offline, as a digital information package. They employ multiple windows and possess similarities in digital aesthetics, ranging from file naming to directory architecture through the use of folders. !!!Sección ARTE adheres to the regulations of the Paquete Semanal: no pornography or overtly political content, as well as to its weight and format regulations.
In turn, the works or projects selected to participate in !!!Sección ARTE is closely related to the process of formation, consumption, and distribution of the Paquete Semanal. These projects become public information, so they can be edited, modified, reconfigured, and reproduced, with an approximate reach of ten million people throughout Cuba.
!!!Sección ARTE folder structure
This project is the result of several years of research on the Paquete Semanal and in it, Nestor Siré doubles as curator and/or curator. His focus is on the informal ways for the circulation of information, digital piracy, alternative networks, the art-society relationship, the limits of net art and new media-offline art, as well as their social interaction within the spaces of mass culture.
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Disconnected Experiences, Ars Electronica, Garden Cuba, Linz, Austria [2021]
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Credits
Artists: Lázaro Saavedra, Yonlay Cabrera, Julian D’Angiolillo, Yoe Suárez, José Toirac, Julia Weist, Chago, Yeny & Alejandro, Márquez Marcel-M3, SERONES, Jonathan Horowitz, Alejandro Rojas Medina, Bill Burns, Mechthild Schmidtfeist, Adonis Ferro, Ali Eslami, Cheon Pyo Lee, Ed Pien, Andrew Demirjian, Franco Mattes & Eva Mattes, Gaia Tedone, gethan&myles, Jan Robert Leegte, Johannes Zits, Lara Baladi, Luis Rodil-Fernández, Max de Esteban, Mina Cheon, Mitra Azar & Malthe Stavning Erslev, Rachel Devorah, Dale Small, Sunwoo Hoon, Yves Mettler, Bram de Groot, N. Adriana Knouf, Donika Çina, Lek M. Gjeloshi, Anri Sala, Brian Mackern, Chuli Herrera, Ginou Choueir, Wilmer Rodríguez, Florian van Zandwijk, Steffen Köhn, Paolo De, Joe Wentrup, Pedro Muñoz, Penélope Umbrico, Alan Butler, Roc Herms, Joana Moll, Solimán López, MMMMMFILMS and Aram Bartholl.
Featured projects: Pakete de Literatura, El Ciervo Blanco, CARPETA DE NAVEGACIÓN, Behind the Net [paquete], !!!Act [No. 22], Enredos Sónicos, Albania Is Not Cuba, Net Art Latino Database_Net Art Anthology, Café Internet, MEGATIBURÓN vs PULPO GIGANTE, Screen Walks, The Dazzle Club, Toda la Teoría del Universo, HIEROSCOPIA 9.1, Multimedia Anthropology Lab, HARDDISKMUSEUM, Dead Drops, PakeTown and !!!Sección ARTE [META].
Curators: Paul Soulellis, Pável Alejandro Barrios Sosa, Magaly Espinosa, Caridad Blanco, Dianett Quintana Solís, Claudia Costa Pederson, Amy Zion, Michael Connor, Aria Dean, Lesly Fonseca Tundidor, Michael M. Thoss, Jon Uriarte, Marco de Mutiis and Anna Mladentseva.
Shows and presentations: Queens Museum (US), Triple Canopy (US), Rhizome (US), National Museum of Fine Arts (Cuba), nGbK (Germany), SDR (Cuba), Ars Electronica (Austria) and transmediale (Germany).
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