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WARNING:
This is not a self-indulgent exercise comparing the conveniences/inconveniences
of digital technology for the PC user. This is not an encounter
with technocratic fantasies, utopian visions nor renderings of maleficent
technological dystopia. No mámes.
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ATTENTION:
This is a tactical assault on the cryptoreligious myths accompanying
technological invention. It is a counteroffensive against the mili-corp
monoculture that evolves and promotes Information Technology to
stifle critical voices. ¡Eso!
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BEWARE:
We are not tech-optimists, digi-pushers, nor cyber-fanáticos.
We are not neo-Luddites or Chicano hippies. We are criticones techno-informants
of the ‘other’ kind. We are . . .
LOS CYBRIDS: La Raza Techno-Crítica.
Los Cybrids: La Raza Techno-Crítica are
three artists exploring cultural and somatic mutations caused by
the implosion of advanced information technology. Amid the tensions
of the fast-paced mythologies of the Information Age, Los Cybrids
have emerged to challenge notions that purport a friction-free market,
a one-world community and global access at our fingertips. Los Cybrids
employ performance, burla, and high-tech art to undermine the uncritical,
passive acceptance of the overarching social, cultural and environmental
consequences of Information Technologies.
A “Cybrid” is a Latino digi-tech
artist from an ethnic demographic disproportionately under-represented
in the cyberworld. We function as a collaborative artistic group
that performatively counters the hyperbolic discourse around “cyberspace.”
As a junta, we instigate a critical dialogue around access and desire
in cyber-culture, considering multiple issues of economic equality,
cultural transformation, social reorganization, educational imperatives,
and environmental impact.
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