JAIME DE LOS RIOS
Jaime de los Rios is a new media artist whose artworks explore digital natures based on metamathematics and cybernetics. Born in 1982 in San Sebastian he is founder of the open laboratory of Art and Science ARTEK [Lab]
Artwork details:
Title: Colours Vivantes Gold
Fileformat: MP4
Year: 2020
Artwork description:
Some experts predicted that capitalism would last approximately 450 years. Specifically, those that would elapse between 1580, when Queen Elizabeth invested the Spanish gold stolen by Francis Drake, until 2030, the year in which was assumed that humanity should have solved its needs in order to have other, higher concerns. We do not know very well what will happen on 2030, we could think of an end to capitalism but far from these predictions. Gold, the basis of all wealth and the king of all minerals par excellence, marked the path of greed and the greatest fortunes, being even now the value of financial refuge in the crises of the last century. However, the gold standard, a monetary system in which the value of a country’s currency is fully convertible into grams of gold, since the Central Banks had the obligation to convert it when a citizen demanded it, no longer exists. Money is a value based on trust, a digital gold, a virtual mineral, a mirage that is worth nothing but that attracts the human being like a siren song. This algorithmic painting may have this power of attraction…
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