Fundación Telefónica

Fundación Telefónica and Alta Tecnología Andina (ATA) present this exhibition curated by Dr. Victor J. Krebs, which seeks to generate a reflection on the future of the most important technologies in our society, the way in which technological advances influence our life styles and how these new tools are becoming increasingly necessary extensions of the human being.

McLuhan said that we would leave the linear, logical, sequential space that writing has accustomed us to, especially since the invention of printing, and instead we would start to live in a less intellectual, more "auditory" space, with simultaneous instead of sequential relationships, with perceptions from different directions at the same time, and where the unifying and totalising visualisation that our modern mind is used to is impossible. He also maintained that electronic media would radically change our lives.

For this reason, the exhibition brings together three key aspects in order to understand the role of technology in our lives: the historical evolution of the current technological devices and concepts of domestic and mass use; the projection in the future of each one of these concepts and the prototype conception based on these elements, and the ideas proposed by the specialist and visionary guests.

Therefore, works experimenting with the possible future scenarios of the radio, telephone, television, computer, books, clock, cinema, photography, clothing, and digital manufacture will be presented from the perspective of distinguished Peruvian artists and creators such as José Aburto and Sebastián Burga, Gustavo Bockos, Elena Damiani, Clifford Day, Valeria Ghezzi, Clara Huarniz, Beno Juárez, Gabriel Lama and Jab Lemur.

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