Messages to Venus
Cristina Brambila

Messages to Venus is an interactive installation that is part of the ongoing project SIDERAL.

Is it possible to point to poetic forms of space and astronomical exploration? What poetic communication systems can be developed to detect communication patterns with outer space?

The growing presence of hegemonic technologies in different aspects of our lives continues to transform our conception of reality. Therefore, it is necessary to recognize a diversity of forms and paradigms from which technology can be created. SIDERAL was born from the need to problematize the space and astronomical exploration processes that are currently being developed, which are led by private investment, and with colonizing positions. SIDERAL presents possible relations with the cosmic space, which might help us understand the cosmos, not as a human-nature dichotomy, but as part of the same whole.

Messages to Venus develops speculative interplanetary communication devices that send signals, without necessarily waiting for a response in return. Formally, the piece consists of an interactive installation in which the public can touch different ceramic pieces and activate capacitive signals that will interact with real time data of Venus. Messages to Venus resembles some aspects of the Mayan astronomical explorations and time measurements. 
 


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Cristina Brambila is a multimedia artist and curator. Her work’s main theme is the search for the poetry of technology. She holds a Master’s degree in Digital Arts, Motion and Information Technology from the Postgraduate in Arts and Design of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Arts and Design of UNAM.

She has developed non-formal education projects in different art institutions such as Tamayo Museum of contemporary
art, UVA of the University Cultural Center of Tlatelolco UNAM, Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico, among others. She is co-founder of MESETA, an interdisciplinary collective dedicated to the research, education and creation of projects that link together themes of art, city and technology. She is currently an associate professor at the Autonomous Metropolitan
University UAM.

She was awarded with the Young Artists Program fellowship (2019-2020) by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts,
FONCA in the New Technologies discipline. She has also been the recipient of relevant grants such as Hacking the City, Border Cultural Center 2017 and Piso 16 Cultural Initiatives Laboratory 2018. In 2020 she curated the III STEAM Forum: Virtuality, Context and Interdiscipline, with the collaboration of Fundación Telefónica and the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico. She also curated the exhibition Visual Devices: Restructuring the Possible at the Multimedia Center of the National Center for the Arts.



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