MARIANO SARDÓN
in collab. with MARIANO SIGMAN
Read Unread (Sidereus Nuncios – Galileo Galilei)
2019
Book
28 x 24 x 3.8 cm / 11 × 9.5 x 1.5 in each.
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ABOUT THE WORK
Reading is a selective process, marked by rapid eye movements, called saccades, and brief moments of fixation. The gaze does not move through the text in a linear way, but selects fragments of it, skips others and anticipates some through context.
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Every act of reading thus generates two parallel dimensions: a seen text, made up of the words actually observed, and an invisible text, made up of those overlooked or only guessed at. Starting from this reflection, the experiment carried out on Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye, using an eye tracker, makes the relationship between vision and omission tangible. By recording eye movements and separating the parts observed from those not observed, the book is broken down into two new publications: one returns what was read, the other what remained outside the gaze. Reading thus becomes an act of selection and construction, in which what we do not see takes on the same relevance as what we see.
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SHORT BIO
Mariano Sardón (Bahía Blanca, Argentina, 1968) is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Combining traditional and new media, data visualization, and computer languages, he creates installations that explore perception, the body, and cognitive processes, some in collaboration with scientists.
He studied Physics at the University of Buenos Aires and is an associate artist at the Munich Interactive Intelligence Initiative (Mi3). He has been a mentor and jury member at the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab, Ars Electronica Center.
His awards include the ARCO/BEEP Award for Electronic Arts (ARCO Madrid, 2019), the Konex Award in Visual Arts (2012), and the Experimentation Award in Non-Traditional Media and Video from the Argentine Association of Art Critics (2008). He has lectured at the Centre Pompidou, ZKM Karlsruhe, and Ars Electronica Center, among others.
His work has been shown at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), Palazzo Fortuny, Ars Electronica Linz, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the 11th Havana Biennial, MALBA, MAMBA, Fundación PROA, and in galleries and fairs including Ruth Benzacar, Artericambi, Bryce Wolkowitz, ARCO, and Artissima. FULL BIOGRAPHY HERE