Daniel Romero
5 November 2018 – 28 March 2019
Daniel Romero has been “tinkering” with electronic music and multimedia art for more than 15 years. Under the name “.tape. (aka dot tape dot) he has released records in Spain (Spa.rk), Japan (Nature Bliss), USA (Other Electricites), France (Optical Sound & Aspic Records, Eglantine Records) and Germany (Mira Recs). Since 2003 he has directed the collective ambulatore.com and the mini-netlabel yoyo pang! He has created sound installations and audiovisual performances all over the world (Mexico, Austria, England, Denmark, Germany, France, Japan…). Since 2008 he has composed music for plays by directors such as Rodrigo García (Versus, Esto es así…) or John Romao/Colectivo84 (Morro como país, horror). He currently collaborates and works with artists from different fields such as Fernando Gutiérrez or Aroah (Irene Tremblay) and is part of the Cultural Association La Bisogno, dedicated to promoting sound art, free software and social inclusion. Since 2009, he also co-directs with this association the free-radio for young people “radiadora.org”, where he produces a sound art programme called Albatros.
Project in residence
La Asamblea
La asamblea (le comité) is a performance installation based on 5 totems endowed with artificial intelligence (machine learning, neural networks…). Each totem will be able to recognize objects, people, emotions, process natural language, create music or images and thus interact between them or with the actors (or visitors) and their environment.
‘La asamblea’ will be the central axis of ‘Museihushugi’, a dystopian science fiction story set in 2088 and focused on the works council of a well-known French alcoholic beverage. ‘Museihushugi’ will be Daniel Romero’s first stage play and will be premiered at the National Drama Centre in Montpellier in May 2019.
This work proposes a reflection on the new systems of control and decision-making based on algorithms, the limits of technology, technological singularity, technochauvinism, neoludism, data mining, and the current hype of automatic learning and neural networks from a political, philosophical and artistic point of view.
