Demo Hour

DEMO HOUR: Imaginario Inverso

Astrovandalistas is a collective that applies creative intervention, technological activism, urban hacking, and open source knowledge to explore the geopolitics of technology development and the commercialization of scientific knowledge. Imaginario Inverso repurposes a modem laser technology to engrave predictions and micro-narratives onto rocks and city debris. These are redistributed back to the land to create other kinds of local networks to communicate with the future.

Using a glyphic alphabet designed by Astrovandalistas, this future-casting platform is a creative opportunity for manifesting anxieties about the future and the appropriation of technologies for more personal use.

Unsettled artifacts: Technological speculations from Latin America. Leonardo 50, 4 (Aug. 2017), 410–437; https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/LEON_a_01459

Astrovandalistas (Leslie García, Andrés Padilla Dómene, Thiago Hersan, and Rodrigo Frenk)

Astrovandalistas use lasers to engrave rocks with messages to the future in their own glyphic alphabet.