Carlos Franco and Florencia Escudero discuss 00:0_

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For this public talk, artist in residence Carlos Franco will discuss topics that have informed his current solo exhibition at ISCP, 00:0_, with artist and Precog Magazine co-founder Florencia Escudero. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Among the topics they plan to discuss are the shifting media landscape, including how bodies morph to contend with digital conditions and how that may impact political realities. Franco is interested in how we relate to symbols in this new ecosystem, and in connection, quotes philosopher Vílem Flusser:“Writing, in the sense of placing letters and other marks one after another, appears to have little or no future.” They will talk about how the super brief videos in 00:0_ are claimed by the artist to be micro-essays, about time, and maybe about the collapse of global space into what Franco calls “corporate-sponsored instacommunities.”