These are some of the artworks about counter information in new media technologies, which have participated in the research, curatorship and exhibitions project named “Relación de Aspecto” (Aspect Ratio), developed and presented since 2012 as collective exhibitions for diverse cultural venues in Latin American countries.

These artworks express meanings of resistance to social, political, socioeconomic, gender, environmental, educational, violence, and other problematic issues that condition current life.

Some participants have joined the project through open calls, and others by direct invitation.

We are living in what is so far the most eventful era in history - more intense than 1848, 1917 and 1968 (according to the World Protest study by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung New York). We navigate an unstable political ocean, on flurries of protests that erupt like unexpected pop-ups on the global screen.

Different authors point to the birth of a new era with techno-political strategies and audiovisual narratives of an insurrectionary nature.

“Aspect Ratio _Broken Screen” is an invitation to raise awareness about the meaning and use of images inserted in and by our society; also to visualize and interpret the problems that affect us, to our territory and world.

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The proposal is to ask about what is seen and what is not seen, open eyes and open minds to challenge the modern technological systems of social control.

Information and disinformation as a controlled system of slogans by the powerful others, rules our society.

« We are not asked to believe but to behave as if we did » (Deleuze)

“Art is a weapon and the weapons can change the world. All other art is unnecessary and outdated”. * Riiko Sakkinen (manifestó of turborealism)

“De qué nos sirve hacer grandes obras cuando todo se está deteriorando, cuando nuestra vida peligra a cada instante; de qué sirve llenar galerías o museos si los pequeños, los jóvenes, empresarios, historiadores, obreros, constructores e incluso estudiantes y profesores de arte no los frecuentan por encontrarlos fríos o distantes. Y de qué sirve hacer obras para unos pocos, para algunas salas u oficinas, de qué sirve cuando la realidad es otra, cuando tras las paredes blancas se asesina, engaña, lava, y somete el destino de la humanidad”.* Fernando Pertuz (Arte y política para la vida)