Daniel Cevallos Andrade, Architect, MSc in Architectural Communication
by Technical Superior School of Architecture of Madrid,
multidisciplinary artist, research, musician, and co-founder of
Temporary Atmospheres, interactive architecture, and digital art
studio based in NYC & UIO, His works have been presented in many
international exhibitions, conferences, awards, and academic journals
such as Queens-Museum 2018, Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale 2019,
ArsElectronica 2020, Lightbox Creative Code Festival, Contemporary
Venice 2021, Digital Art Month Paris, MMMAD Festival, MAB 2021
Amsterdam. Currently lead artist of Temporary Atmospheres, where most
of his works are focused on the intersection of new technologies with
human interaction, raising awareness of the danger and the potential
to the implementation thereof in the hyper-city. Since the field of
speculation he could find a gap to introduce artistically, artworks,
that reflect-critic the collaborative and participatory process in the
develop of the hyper-city, avoiding the tyranny and totalitarianism of
governments and industries which try to rule the dynamic and behavior
of contemporary societies.
Website: www.temporaryatmospheres.com
Project Proposal:
Non-human, non post-human
32 years 3 months 6 days was the time that Daniel took to recognize
that he is a non-product of the postulates of the post-humanism, since
his birth Daniel has experienced variations in his tangible and
intangible scenarios; during, before, and after his surgeries, Daniel
has had to mitigate with the overwhelming wave of speed that progress
leads, nonetheless at the same time the surge of technology helps him
to survive in wild environments ruled by efficiency, throughout his
entire life Daniel hid its condition, pursuing the fact to fit and be
accepted by a society that rejects its own nature, unceasingly facing
all the complexity of our contemporary age being someone with visual
disabilities.
Transporting us with his gaze, Daniel portraits atmospheres that
depict variations that altern its quotidian life, thanks by the use of
technology, immersive experiences show captured moments and
limitations that helps him to be aware above current implications
provoked by the excessive use of technology, and the way that devices
re-shape our daily life. The boundaries that Daniel had to experiment
during his entire life have been modified constantly, habits, and
social dynamics have been ruled by artifacts that have allowed the
merge of tangible and intangible realities, which increases the
non-perception of nature and virtual worlds dramatically. Progress
steadily develops prostheses, artifacts, and devices that make our
life almost normal or more manageable, it depends on the needs of each
fellow, but at the same time artifacts, and devices that were invented
to maximize efficiency numb our minds, while devices are smarter,
humankind succumbs into the ignorance; Mental and visual diseases will
be more common due to the drastic use of technology, encouraging to
people become a persons with disabilities to merely justify the use of
prosthesis or devices that simplify their routines, nevertheless, we
have been cyborgs afterward the invention of antibiotics, the growing
current of anesthetized societies forces the invisible penetration of
otherness, justifying the excessive acceleration in the behavior of
their individuals, projecting in their imaginary the being superior or
different from the rest, often falling catastrophically into mental
disorders manifested by the sensation of a permanent burnout.
This work is committed to reflecting on a personal narrative, inviting
us to immerse ourselves in the tangible and intangible atmospheres,
which emerged in the permanent exploration of the natural and virtual
worlds.