24/7 – Final presentation by Esmeralda Conde Ruiz, Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2022, at HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts

From April to October 2022, Conde Ruiz was the artist in residence at the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden. The Lab is a platform for future-oriented dialogue between science, art and society at Technische Universität Dresden (TUD).

During Conde Ruiz’s residency she conducted artistic research and reflected upon digital infrastructures, the ecological impact of the server farm industry and the relationship between humans, technology and AI. Her current body of research draws attention to the invisible and barely tangible world of our digital data and the virulent future technologies, highlighting the role and influence of humans in this constantly changing world. Her new artwork titled 24/7 questions the continuous cycle of our human data and the technological space it occupies. It draws on the human need to communicate via human voice whilst  also highlighting the new sounds created when we communicate digitally with each other. How do these sounds differ sonically and in what ways are they similar? What are the costs of digital communication? 24/7 portrays the co-creation between humans and technology and how true symbiosis might sound in the future. If technology is trying to sound human, what happens if humans attempt to mimic the sound of technology?

24/7 will be presented in spring 2023 during the festival 31. Dresdner Tage der Zeitgenössischen Musik at HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts.

Small groups of visitors are guided by staff of the European Centre for the Arts – HELLERAU into the exhibition space located in the basement, so that the installation retains its difficult-to-access and intimate character.

The presentation is sponsored by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget passed by the Saxon state parliament. Further support by: British Council.