https://glorialopezcleries.com Gloria Lopez Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:01:02 +0000 https://glorialopezcleries.com en https://glorialopezcleries.com/About Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:09:16 +0000 Gloria Lopez https://glorialopezcleries.com/About (EN) Gloria López Cleries researches and writes about art and technology. She holds a Master in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) and Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and a Master in Fine Arts, HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University, Sweden. Her work critically examines questions about neoliberal rhetoric concerning emotional capitalism and new online models of productivity, affect, care and collectivity. Her projects invite us to question and rethink the vocabularies and imageries of online social networks and their reproduction. Her last artistic projects explore the connections between technomysticism and spiritual discourses of matter. In parallel to her artistic production, López is a lecturer at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University. Interested in feminist and critical pedagogies, López has participated and co-led critical pedagogy research programmes and collective research workshops. For an offline portfolio or more information: glorialopezcleries(@)gmail(.)com (ES) Gloria López Cleries investiga y escribe sobre arte y tecnologia. Ha cursado el Máster en Historia del Arte Contemporáneo y Cultura Visual en el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Universidad Complutense de Madrid y el Máster del Programa Internacional en Investigación Artística, HDK-Valand, Universidad de Gotemburgo, Suecia. Su trabajo reflexiona sobre la retórica neoliberal en relación con el capitalismo emocional y los nuevos modelos online de productividad, afecto, cuidados y colectividad. Sus proyectos invitan a cuestionar y repensar los vocabularios e imaginarios de las redes sociales y su reproducción. Sus últimos proyectos artísticos exploran la relación entre el tecnomisticismo y los discursos espirituales de la materia. En paralelo a su producción artística, López es profesora en la facultad de arte de HDK-Valand, Gotemburgo. Interesada en las pedagogías feministas y críticas, López ha participado y co-dirigido programas de investigación de pedagogía crítica y talleres de investigación colectiva.&nbsp; CV (EN)&nbsp; SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS Arbetsstipendium Bildkonstnärsfonden, Konstnärsnämnden. The Swedish Art Grants Comittee, 2025. Arbetsstipendium Bildkonstnärsfonden, Konstnärsnämnden. The Swedish Art Grants Comittee, 2022. Arbetsstipendium Västra Götalandsregionens kulturnämnd, Sweden, 2021. Fredrik Roos Stiftelse Nomination, Sweden 2020. Tobison Stipendium, Sweden 2020. Neuberghs/Gurmund Stipendium, Sweden, 2020. Carls Olson Stipendium. Sweden, 2019. Adlerbertska Stipendium- Göteborg University. Sweden, 2019. Ayudas Injuve. Instututo de la Juventud. Grant for Production, Project Imagen Fantasma, Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 2019. Intransit 2016. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. XVII Premio Joven Artes Visuales. Fundacion General Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Spanish Royal Mint Foundation Grant, EMIGIA. FNMT-UCLM, Spain. VII International Prize Vivanco Foundation. La Rioja, Spain. Certamen Jóvenes Creadores. Family, Social Services and Citizen Engagement Management. Madrid City Council, Spain. Certamen de Arte Gráfico Jóvenes Creadores 2013 Graphic Arts Competition. Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Calcografía Nacional. Madrid, Spain. Prize for best Academic results, XII Prize Polytechnic University of Valencia Social Council, Spain.Erasmus Scholarship Academic Year 2009/2010. École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. EXHIBITIONS (Selection) 2025 Sprickor i taket (Cracks in the ceiling), Luleå Konsthallen, Sweden. Clairvoyant Machines, Design Stories Collection Intervention, Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg, Sweden. Objeto a. Derivas del deseo capitalista. Lab 36, Barcelona. Artificial Ways of Seeing, Super Ö. Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2024 Milan Machinima Festival. Mecamisticas, Dilalica Gallery, Barcelona. 2023 &nbsp; OFF Bratislava – The House of Plausible, Probable, Possible and Preferable Futures, Festival of Contemporary Photography, Kunsthalle Bratislava. Happily Ever After, curated by Julia Björnberg &amp; Anna Johansson, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden. 2022 &nbsp;&nbsp; SWAB Barcelona Contemporary Art Fair, Dilalica Gallery, Barcelona. ISEA 2022 International Symposium of Electronic Art, CCCB and CERC, Barcelona. CYCLO Festival, Cuerpos que respiran. Curated by Maria Rojas, Sala Pirandello, Madrid. How to Win at Photography, curated by Matteo Bittanti and Marco De Mutiis, The Photographers Gallery, London. 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Como un mundo que se desmorona cuando nadie está mirando, curated by Bartlebooth. Dilalica Gallery, LOOP BARCELONA. IMMATERIAL, Encuentro sobre realidades mediadas por lo digital, curated by Ontologias Feministas, Tabakalera, Spain. How to Win at Photography, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. BIENAL SUR Festival, Teatro Margarita Xirgu, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. STREAMS Transformative Environmental Humanities, Stockholm. 2020 &nbsp; Positive Affirmation for Artists with Cancelled Exhibitions. In collaboration with easy ASMR. Graduation Ceremony at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg.&nbsp; ADAF - Athens Digital Arts Festival 2020, Technotribalism, Online exhibition. Posespacios. Ateneo Cultural, Creacion INJUVE, Leon, Spain. 2019 &nbsp; Welcome to the Antropoceno. Salamanca Museum. Curated by Jose Abel-Flores, Spain. Posespacios. Imagen Fantasma. Creacion INJUVE. Sala Amadis. Madrid. The Unreal. Screening BioValand. Valand Academy 25th September. Sweden. 2018 Afterwork. Blue Wisper. Kolgruvan &amp; Kiosken. Gothenburg. Internetmoongallery.com. Online exhibition in collaboration with Sive Hamilton. Internetamine. InderEspacio Gallery. Santander, Spain. 2016 &nbsp;&nbsp; La exactitud de la materia herida por la luz con Mikha-ez. Comisariada por Fernando Castro Florez. Show Room Brita Prinz Arte. Madrid, ES. 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp; XVII Premio Arte Joven, Fundación General Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Complutense Centro de Arte. Madrid. Certamen Jóvenes Creadores. Calcografía Nacional Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Madrid. IX Mulier Mulieris Award. Museo Universitario de Alicante, MUA, Alicante. VII Festival InCubarte. Institut Français, Valencia. Tinta de Verano. Museo Real Casa de la Moneda, Madrid. XIV Premio San Lorenzo del Escorial, El Escorial, Madrid. TALKS AND PERFORMATIVE LECTURES (Selection) · &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Utforska samtiden- konst, språk och teknologi. Artist Talk. Bok och Bild, Kultur Hus Luleå, &nbsp;Sweden. Oct. 2025. · &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ASMR Reading You to SLEEP. Artist Talk. HDK-Valand. Gothenburg University, Sweden. Nov. 2023. · &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Give me More Triggers. Perfomative lecture in collaboration with Ailén Lucia ASMR, in Cómete la Naturaleza Muerta, Sala Amadís, INJUVE, Madrid, Spain. January, 2023. · &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Photographers Gallery. Artist talk. How to win at photography. London.&nbsp;September, 2022. · &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Unreal. Performative Lecture in collaboration with Sive Hamilton. STREAMS Conference. KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2022. · &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Likes, Stories and Stereotypes. 3RD PARALLAX Forum. Performative Lecture in collaboration with Kolbrun Inga Soring and James Duffy. 5th-6th Dec. 2019, Katowice, Poland. · &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Paisajes Irreales. Online Performative Lecture in Collaboration with Sive Hamilton. Sala Amadís, Madrid. Spain. · &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Autotheory Performative Workshop. Group Performative Lecture. 3rd PARSE Biennial Research Conference: “Human”. Gothenburg University, 13-15 Nov. 2019, Sweden. · &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ghosting and Affective Capitalism. Katowice Art School. November 2018. Katowice. Poland. · &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; La imposibilidad del registro efímero en la ciudad transitable. ACC’17 3 Congreso Internacional Arte, Ciencia, Ciudad. ¿Como se cuentan las cosas? Málaga University, Spain, 2017. · &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tag as a Surveillance cell. A critical view of metadata and facial recognition systems through artistic practices. III Visual Arts Rearch International Congress. Glocal. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, July 2017. · &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ghosting Image as a contemporary ruin. Cambio de forma. Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Laguna. Tenerife. Dec 2016. · &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ghosting Image. Public Sessions Intransit 2016. Salón de Grados de la Facultad de Bellas Artes UCM, Madrid, Spain. · &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ghosting Image. II Jornadas Imágenes en el Mundo Contemporáneo. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, June 2016. · &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Creative Processes Seminar.&nbsp; Awarded XVII Youth Prize, General Foundation Complutense University, Madrid. Complutense University Contemporary Art Centre (c arte c), Madrid, Spain, June 2016. CURATORIAL PROJECTS AND WORKSHOPS 2025 Speculative Imagination Workshop. Co-organised wiht Sive Hamilton Helle. In collaboration with RISE (Resesarch Institutes of Sweden), KKV- Konstnärernas Kollektivvekstad Luleå, Sunderby folkhögskola och konsthallen Kulturens hus. Luleå Konsthallen, Sweden.2024Clairvoyant Machines, Study Cirle in collaboration with Embedded Design Master Programme HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University. Oct 2024-Mar 2025. Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg, Sweden 2023 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mapping Access Needs Workstation. Equality Treatment Workshop. In collaboration with TTTT Research Group. 31 Aug 2023. Studenternashus, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 2021 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Radical Inclusivity. Experiencing the Art World Today. Workshop. PCA Paris College of Art, France. 2020 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Questioning the Neutrality of Art Education. Online Workshop, In Rencontres et ateliers: les pédagogies critiques en écoles d’art. Dec 2020, Villa Arson, Nice, France. Toolbox Techniques to Transgress TTTT. Erasmus Program. Researcher member. June 2020- 2022. Online Sessions. Co-organiser: Glossary Workshop and Neutrality in Academia, online seminars. 2019 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Exploring Autotheory Workshop. Valand Academy. Gothenburg University. Gothenburg. Bodies in Alliance. Bodies in Defiance. Valand Academy. Gothenburg University, Sweden. Slime Workshop. Education Department, 16 Dec. 2019, Konsthallen Gothenburg, Sweden. 2017 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Art After Research. Convergences between research and contemporary artistic practices. Conference. Fine Arts Faculty, Cuenca. Castilla-La Mancha University, Spain. 2016 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; II Jornadas Imágenes en el mundo contemporáneo. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid, Spain. EDUCATION Supplementary pedagogy education in Upper Secondary School in Sweden, subject Visual Arts. University of Gothenburg, Sweden. (Kompletterande pedagogisk utbildning, Gymnasieskolan)Master Fine Arts HDK-Valand. University of Gothenburg, SwedenPhD Student in Humanities, Art and Education Research/ Castilla-La Mancha University, SpainMaster Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SpainMedia Specialist on Graphic Printing, Illustration, Design and Artistic Mintage (UCLM)/ Fundacion Real Casa de la Moneda Madrid, SpainExchange Student. École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France BA Fine Arts, San Carlos Fine Arts Faculty. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain COLLECTIONS (Selection)&nbsp; Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden. Tobison Stipendium, Sweden. Galeria Dilalica, Barcelona. Gabinete Gráfico Museo Casa de la Moneda, Madrid, Spain. Fundación Vivanco, La Rioja, Spain. Fundación Carmen Arocena, Cabildo Insular de la Palma, Spain. Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Calcografía Nacional. Madrid, Spain.&nbsp; Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Área De Gobierno De Familia, Servicios Sociales Y Participación Ciudadana del Ayuntamiento De Madrid, Spain. Fundación General Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. https://glorialopezcleries.com/Intro-page Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:07:51 +0000 Gloria Lopez https://glorialopezcleries.com/Intro-page <img width="1667" height="2500" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0926a485d482c41720a96ec6282f1aebebe286f841438b22f91d8d66a35e940/Henrik-Hellstrom-_happily_ever_after_web.jpg" data-mid="240398555" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0926a485d482c41720a96ec6282f1aebebe286f841438b22f91d8d66a35e940/Henrik-Hellstrom-_happily_ever_after_web.jpg" />Gloria López Cleries, ASMR Reading You to Sleep, 2023. Happily Ever After, Malmö Konstmuseum. Image: Henrik Hellström https://glorialopezcleries.com/Texts Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:16:31 +0000 Gloria Lopez https://glorialopezcleries.com/Texts Published texts&nbsp; López Cleries, G., Hamilton Helle, S.,The Unreal: gli immaginari deltecno-colonialismo di Gloria López-Cleries, Sive Hamilton Helle. Bittanti, Matteo (Editor). Videoarte ludica. Videogioco, cinema, machinima. DOI: 10.7413/1234-1234060. 2025. López Cleries, G., Querer ser como los hongos. Una conversación con Yasmine Ostendorf- Rodríguez y Helen Torres. Exit-express.com, Exit Media, Voces, Mar 2025.&nbsp; López Cleries, G, Allegories, Filter Bubbles and Polflueraren. In (ed.) Reyhaneh Mirjahani, Between Affinity and Rupture:, Avinius+Orfeus: Stockholm, 2023, p. 158-171. López Cleries, G., Hamilton Helle, S., The Unreal: Imaginaries of Techno-colonialism, en MAST, The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, University of New York, Buffalo.&nbsp;Vol 1, num. 2, Nov 2020.&nbsp; López Cleries, G., Give Me More Triggers: The Therapeutic Turn in the Popular Culture Industry, At This Point, Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg, 2020, pp. 97-114.&nbsp; López Cleries, G., Give Me More Triggers: el giro terapéutico en la indústria cultural. Exit-express.com, Microensayos, Feb 2020.&nbsp; López Cleries, G. et al., Script for a Performative Lecture: Exploring Alternative Applications of Autotheory, 3rd PARSE Biennial Research Conference: “Human”. Gothenburg University, 13-15 Nov. 2019. López Cleries, G., Espejos mágicos y discursos espirituales, en ed. Cristian San Segundo, Posespacios, INJUVE Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid, 2019. López Cleries, G., Just Dance, Dance, Dance… ¡Autonomía! ¡Automatización! TEA. Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Sept 2019, ISBN: 978-84-120486-2-9, pp. 62-70. López Cleries, G., Porras Soriano, A., Tag as a Surveillance cell. A critical view of metadata and facial recognition systems through artistic practices. In ANIAV, no. 2 ,2018. e-ISSN: 2530-9986. Porras Soriano, A., López Cleries, G., Disproofs of post-digital art. Neomaterialisms vs. Infiniteness, III Congreso Internacional de Investigación en Artes Visuales.&nbsp;Glocal, UPV. López Cleries, G., Media as an&nbsp;Affective Apparatus within Mainstream&nbsp;Culture. Hashtag Feminism and&nbsp;its Contradictions,&nbsp;SOBRE,&nbsp;no. 5, 2019, pp: 53-60, &nbsp; López Cleries, G., La imposibilidad del registro efímero en la ciudad transitable, ACC'17 3º Congreso Internacional Arte, Ciencia, Ciudad. ¿Cómo se cuentan las cosas?,&nbsp;2017, pp. 331-336. López Cleries, G., Patologías post-narcisistas en el contexto post-internet, EXIT-Express, 17 May , 2018. López Cleries, G., In praise of the hidden, El elogio de lo aculto, en Ruptura, ISBN.: 978-84-697-9932-1, 2018,&nbsp;pp.101-105. López Cleries, G., Internetamine. Inder&nbsp;Espacio.&nbsp;Santander.&nbsp;ISBN978-84-617-8107-2, 2015,&nbsp;pp. 38-39. _ Visual essays and others López Cleries, G.&nbsp;Give me more (triggers).&nbsp;En busca de la satisfacción inmediata (texto lectura performativa).&nbsp;Cómete la Naturaleza Muerta, Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid, 2023, pp. 37-38. López Cleries, G.&nbsp;Konst Arkiv, Ed.&nbsp;Sara Buraya Boned, Jennifer Fitzgibbon &amp; Sezin Romi,&nbsp;STORIES AND THREADS: Perspectives on Art Archives. L’internationale online, ISBN 978-91-527-1342-6,&nbsp;2022, pp. 174-206 . López Cleries, G., Llagost, paisatge, col·lapse i camuflatge. Full de sala per a l’exposició de Bartomeu Sastre. Galería Fran Reus, Palma, 2022. https://glorialopezcleries.com/Speculative-Practices Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:01:02 +0000 Gloria Lopez https://glorialopezcleries.com/Speculative-Practices Speculative&nbsp; Practices 2025 - ongoing Participatory workshops&nbsp; Created by Gloria López Cleries and Sive Hamilton Helle Speculative Practices is a format developed by Sive Hamilton Helle and Gloria López Cleries. It uses speculative writing as a critical and creative method to examine how language, metaphors, and narratives shape our understanding of technology, progress, and the environment. Through collective writing exercises and guided conversations, participants explore the power of storytelling to question dominant ideologies and imagine alternative futures.&nbsp;Drawing inspiration from writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, and Donna Haraway, the exercises emphasise speculation not as prediction but as a way to open the future, making space for other possible worlds. Prácticas Especulativas es un formato desarrollado por Sive Hamilton Helle y Gloria López Cleries. Utiliza la escritura especulativa como método crítico y creativo para examinar cómo el lenguaje, las metáforas y las narrativas dan forma a nuestra comprensión de la tecnología, el progreso y el medio ambiente. A través de ejercicios de escritura colectiva y conversaciones guiadas, los participantes exploran el poder de la narración para cuestionar las ideologías dominantes e imaginar futuros alternativos. Inspirándose en escritoras como Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler y Donna Haraway, los ejercicios hacen hincapié en la especulación no como predicción, sino como una forma de abrir el futuro, creando espacio para otros mundos posibles. <img width="3712" height="2784" width_o="3712" height_o="2784" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4585787e85e352d8c35cf9b980508d9f47b3176535d40b7629f47ad04898315f/speculative-writing-workshop-1.jpg" data-mid="240394037" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4585787e85e352d8c35cf9b980508d9f47b3176535d40b7629f47ad04898315f/speculative-writing-workshop-1.jpg" /> Speculative Imagination Workshop 1 14th, 15th, 16th August, 2025, Luleå Konsthallen In collaboration with RISE &nbsp;Research Institutes of Sweden, KKV Konstnärernas Kollektivverkstad Luleå, Sunderby Folk High School and Luleå Konsthallen Kulturens hus, with support from HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg. The first iteration workshop focused on how metaphors and communicative strategies make data centres visible or invisible to the public. Over three days, participants visited RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden), observed data centre infrastructures, and analysed the language surrounding the so-called “green transition.” Through speculative writing exercises, participants created scripts that reinterpret the narratives of technological progress. These texts were later recorded as sound pieces and presented in the exhibition. The workshop invited participants to think differently about the digital systems that underpin our everyday lives and to imagine new relationships with technology beyond efficiency and growth. Taller de imaginación especulativa 1 14, 15 y 16 de agosto de 2025, Luleå Konsthallen En colaboración con RISE &nbsp;Research Institutes of Sweden, KKV Konstnärernas Kollektivverkstad Luleå, Sunderby Folk High School y Luleå Konsthallen Kulturens hus, con el apoyo de HDK-Valand, Universidad de Gotemburgo. La primera edición del taller se centró en cómo las metáforas y las estrategias comunicativas hacen que los centros de datos sean visibles o invisibles para el público. Durante tres días, los participantes visitaron RISE (Institutos de Investigación de Suecia), observaron las infraestructuras de los centros de datos y analizaron el lenguaje que rodea la llamada «transición verde». A través de ejercicios de escritura especulativa, los participantes crearon guiones que reinterpretan las narrativas del progreso tecnológico. Estos textos se grabaron posteriormente como piezas sonoras y se presentaron en la exposición. El taller invitó a los participantes a pensar de forma diferente sobre los sistemas digitales que sustentan nuestra vida cotidiana y a imaginar nuevas relaciones con la tecnología más allá de la eficiencia y el crecimiento. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3fd3cd8e05aedb573fdbbddc0c083ae258cff4db5d4b1d49e18a377d79b686c/Speculative-Imagination-01-rise.jpg" data-mid="240395755" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3fd3cd8e05aedb573fdbbddc0c083ae258cff4db5d4b1d49e18a377d79b686c/Speculative-Imagination-01-rise.jpg" /> <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0492b7a6a51504deae2f5d20740c73065cb8ca6209d7ca7a2239ae129c9b2eeb/rise-visit.jpg" data-mid="240396185" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0492b7a6a51504deae2f5d20740c73065cb8ca6209d7ca7a2239ae129c9b2eeb/rise-visit.jpg" /> <img width="3072" height="4096" width_o="3072" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d5165986cd72aa02453a2d195432de0043ee679d6bf442bac5ffa738c25101a/SWW1-02.jpg" data-mid="240394042" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d5165986cd72aa02453a2d195432de0043ee679d6bf442bac5ffa738c25101a/SWW1-02.jpg" /> Naturens Hämnd (Nature’s Revenge) 00:03:36 min (Swedish) Text: Eva-Britt Forsberg and Egil Elenius Voice: Eva-Britt Forsberg Gloria López · Naturens Hämnd (Nature's Revenge) World War 3 00:03:34 min (English) Text: Sebastian Flórez and Mohamed Elnourani Voice: Sebastian Flórez Gloria López · World War 3 The Last Day on the Green Colony 00:06:57 min (English) Text: Karin Erixon &amp; Gloria López Cleries Voice: Jonathan Mcmurry Gloria López · The Last Day on the Green Colony Iteration 2 — Mining the FutureSpeculative Imagination Workshop 2 18th October, Luleå Konsthallen The second iteration examined the language of the mining industry in Sweden, focusing on advertising campaigns such as Den Svenska Gruvan by Åkerstam and other campaings by LKAB. Participants analysed how corporate storytelling shapes public perception of extractive industries, framing mining as essential for the green transition and national progress. The workshop’s goals were to identify the myths and ideologies embedded in corporate narratives, to understand how emotion and storytelling legitimise technological and industrial development, and to use speculative writing as a method for rewriting these narratives. After analysing the campaigns on the media (Tik Tok, newspapers, websites), participants were invited to “play” with the language, bending, remixing, and transforming it to imagine alternative storytelling. La segunda iteración examinó el lenguaje de la industria minera en Suecia, centrándose en campañas publicitarias como Den Svenska Gruvan, de Åkerstam, y otras campañas de LKAB. Los participantes analizaron cómo la narrativa corporativa moldea la percepción pública de las industrias extractivas, presentando la minería como esencial para la transición ecológica y el progreso nacional.Los objetivos del taller eran identificar los mitos y las ideologías implícitos en las narrativas corporativas, comprender cómo las emociones y la narrativa legitiman el desarrollo tecnológico e industrial, y utilizar la escritura especulativa como método para reescribir estas narrativas. Tras analizar las campañas en los medios de comunicación (Tik Tok, periódicos, páginas web), se invitó a los participantes a «jugar» con el lenguaje, modificándolo, remezclándolo y transformándolo para imaginar narrativas alternativas. <img width="5709" height="3072" width_o="5709" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e64a642c4b4f75e556571b84579e3b2c53c374a20fbae8a046e3c2c879550b5/SWW2-01.jpg" data-mid="240394058" border="0" data-scale="71" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e64a642c4b4f75e556571b84579e3b2c53c374a20fbae8a046e3c2c879550b5/SWW2-01.jpg" /> https://glorialopezcleries.com/Tezcatl-the-Ad Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:08:19 +0000 Gloria Lopez https://glorialopezcleries.com/Tezcatl-the-Ad Tezcatl - The Ad 2025&nbsp;Video advertisement (Sound and colour, 00:01:10) In collaboration with an advertisement team led by Zane MillerCreative Director: Zane MillerCreatives: Julie Koong, Claire ManganielloEditor: Eric LarsonSound Design: Henry Butler <img width="3712" height="2784" width_o="3712" height_o="2784" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62c6f4b31a835e5640905672b90bb7e923cfa142e5b3849c4558e642cc84bbb5/web3.jpg" data-mid="240057153" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62c6f4b31a835e5640905672b90bb7e923cfa142e5b3849c4558e642cc84bbb5/web3.jpg" /> <img width="3712" height="2784" width_o="3712" height_o="2784" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e97131a6067355c245f4850f5023910d94bcc06cd2e8e3a5794b72776733e408/web4.jpg" data-mid="240057154" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e97131a6067355c245f4850f5023910d94bcc06cd2e8e3a5794b72776733e408/web4.jpg" /> <img width="3712" height="2784" width_o="3712" height_o="2784" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/266cf921dc96fb97ff56b244ac11443f7163ede5dd43f4bc734d463ef731b025/web6.jpg" data-mid="240057152" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/266cf921dc96fb97ff56b244ac11443f7163ede5dd43f4bc734d463ef731b025/web6.jpg" /> Sprikor i Taket, Luleå Konsthallen, 2025 Tetzcal, the Ad (2025) is the result of a long term collaboration with the creative director Zane Miller and his team in Brooklyn, who have created a hyperbolic commercial that mimics Silicon Valley’s advertising language. The installation centres on a hand-carved obsidian sculpture, shaped like an iPhone 7, which reimagines the smartphone as a techno-mystical artefact, a tool of vision and prophecy that evokes the symbolism of Aztec divinatory mirrors. The speculative advertisement reproduces the techno-solutionist rhetoric of the tech industry, presenting the obsidian sculpture as an answer to a possible lithium crisis. In doing so, it lays bare how big tech marketing sublimates ecological devastation into sleek visions of spiritual progress. By embedding sacred obsidian within the sculptural logic of the smartphone, my intention is to materialise the hidden entanglements of techno-capitalist spirituality and extractive violence. The obsidian device does not disguise its origins; it amplifies them. Tetzcal, the Ad exposes the paradox of technological devices celebrated for innovation, progress and connectivity yet materially rooted in violent and colonial histories of exploitation and extraction. Tetzcal, el anuncio (2025) es el resultado de una larga colaboración con el director creativo Zane Miller y su equipo de Brooklyn, que han creado un anuncio hiperbólico que imita el lenguaje publicitario de Silicon Valley. La instalación se centra en una escultura de obsidiana tallada a mano, con forma de iPhone 7, que reimagina el smartphone como un artefacto tecno-místico, una herramienta de visión y profecía que evoca el simbolismo de los espejos adivinatorios aztecas. El anuncio especulativo reproduce la retórica tecnosolucionista, presentando la escultura de obsidiana como una respuesta a una posible crisis del litio. Al hacerlo, pone de manifiesto cómo la publicidad de las grandes tecnológicas sublima la devastación ecológica en visiones de progreso espiritual. Al incorporar la obsidiana sagrada en la lógica escultórica del smartphone, mi intención es materializar los enredos ocultos de la espiritualidad tecnocapitalista y la violencia extractiva. El dispositivo de obsidiana no enmascara sus orígenes, sino que los amplifica. Tetzcal, el anuncio expone la paradoja de los dispositivos tecnológicos celebrados por su innovación, progreso y conectividad, pero que en realidad tienen sus raíces en historias violentas y coloniales de explotación y extracción. <img width="800" height="1421" width_o="800" height_o="1421" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21cbf0e31494f8ad69cf092e458d5cd748a4e911c2a5aa9c50fa4f3f8d91400d/obsidiansmall.gif" data-mid="240070253" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/21cbf0e31494f8ad69cf092e458d5cd748a4e911c2a5aa9c50fa4f3f8d91400d/obsidiansmall.gif" /> <img width="3072" height="4096" width_o="3072" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7149a21c6ab3ac4083630efbe3d385764de4202c1b8a559b94fda51e67fe752a/IMG_20251017_135835235.jpg" data-mid="240057164" border="0" data-scale="93" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7149a21c6ab3ac4083630efbe3d385764de4202c1b8a559b94fda51e67fe752a/IMG_20251017_135835235.jpg" /> <img width="800" height="1156" width_o="800" height_o="1156" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8981ae49f9523c165323a6fe17b192cffe8112288b0a5655339eb98c38c58634/obsidian2.gif" data-mid="240070460" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/8981ae49f9523c165323a6fe17b192cffe8112288b0a5655339eb98c38c58634/obsidian2.gif" /> <img width="1022" height="1800" width_o="1022" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29e7f3455ec9258bc034e202b9cb055c0bdbc8604225808797a30ab2ee26c2ac/Screenshot-2025-10-30-at-12.01.32.png" data-mid="240070429" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29e7f3455ec9258bc034e202b9cb055c0bdbc8604225808797a30ab2ee26c2ac/Screenshot-2025-10-30-at-12.01.32.png" /> <img width="1010" height="1800" width_o="1010" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5d428e8fc4b0799bcc1012101a61173c77cc8917c61a3a8f8be3269b5b67320/Screenshot-2025-10-30-at-12.01.03.png" data-mid="240070384" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5d428e8fc4b0799bcc1012101a61173c77cc8917c61a3a8f8be3269b5b67320/Screenshot-2025-10-30-at-12.01.03.png" /> <img width="1022" height="1800" width_o="1022" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef216b4ca1859d9ca5fe690cf52985daee87341a46524d0aae2b75b935bfb3a2/Screenshot-2025-10-30-at-12.01.15.png" data-mid="240070399" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef216b4ca1859d9ca5fe690cf52985daee87341a46524d0aae2b75b935bfb3a2/Screenshot-2025-10-30-at-12.01.15.png" /> <img width="1314" height="2337" width_o="1314" height_o="2337" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0da4f7eda4e5abde06e4def0da271c1fe86ff2738f30e6c4ce30f33eac5d065/web_ancient-intelligence.jpg" data-mid="240067062" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0da4f7eda4e5abde06e4def0da271c1fe86ff2738f30e6c4ce30f33eac5d065/web_ancient-intelligence.jpg" /> Tezcatl, The Ad. Video Stills. Gloria López Cleries and Zane Miller, 2025. <img width="3712" height="2784" width_o="3712" height_o="2784" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b75f129182575039407d89f958449f9f461d5beb9c95491726960c91e40f7058/01_Sprikor-i-taket_Tezcatl-the-ad-2025.jpg" data-mid="240695310" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b75f129182575039407d89f958449f9f461d5beb9c95491726960c91e40f7058/01_Sprikor-i-taket_Tezcatl-the-ad-2025.jpg" />Sprikor i Taket, Luleå Konsthallen, 2025 https://glorialopezcleries.com/Clairvoyant-Machines Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:43:53 +0000 Gloria Lopez https://glorialopezcleries.com/Clairvoyant-Machines Clairvoyant Machines 2024 - 2025 Study circle and audio guide&nbsp; Museum Intervention at Design Stories, the permanent collection at Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg, Sweden.In collaboration with the Embedded Desing Master Program, HDK-Valand Credits:Study Circle Facilitator: Gloria López Cleries Participants: Xiujie Bi, Julia Borowska, Simone De Vivo Bernardi, Jouana El Khayat, Haymanot Fozzati, Matteo Guzzo, Samantha Hookway, Mills Dray, Romain Morelli, Clara Öhrfelt, Daniela Toledo Escárate, Kata Virág, Jingqi Zeng, Yiqiu Zhan Design: Matteo Guzzo Website: Clara Öhrfelt Translation: Benjamin Wagner <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28530c96fae9c6b637baebc1c146e587b85862660835b519cfb2e43348bcbb8e/CM02.jpg" data-mid="229414248" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28530c96fae9c6b637baebc1c146e587b85862660835b519cfb2e43348bcbb8e/CM02.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b5098e3c58d1cae99f3b9dff7f52c16dfd09044a148fe2c00e9ddbd419812ca/CM01.jpg" data-mid="229414244" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b5098e3c58d1cae99f3b9dff7f52c16dfd09044a148fe2c00e9ddbd419812ca/CM01.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a42547ceab0f08bb0ab045d8a1977388984afd704589e0231e9f8bdad5187e0/CM06.jpg" data-mid="229414264" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a42547ceab0f08bb0ab045d8a1977388984afd704589e0231e9f8bdad5187e0/CM06.jpg" /> Clairvoyant Machines is the result of a study circle led by Gloria López Cleries, which took place at the Röhsska Museet (Museum of Design and Craft) in Gothenburg in collaboration with the Embedded Design Master Program at HDK-Valand between October 2024 and January 2025.The audio guide departs from five technological objects from the Design Stories permanent collection, revealing fictional voices and imagined stories the objects might have told. The Clairvoyant Machines audio guide explores the intersections of magic, materiality, and technology, framing five iconic Apple devices as artefacts of both innovation and enchantment. These once-revolutionary objects now invite us to reflect on their cultural significance and the conditions underpinning their creation.The museum intervention explores the post-colonial perspective of techno-colonialism, examining how historical figures like John Dee appropriated the Mesoamerican material obsidian to create his scrying mirror. Dee's mirror, allegedly sourced from Pachuca, Mexico, serves as a metaphor for today's techno-material practices, where the allure of the final product and rapid mass production often overshadow their origins. And so, the devices in this audio guide reflect the tension between their material beginnings and their cultural impact. Each device is a “hyperbolic mirror”, reflecting technological progress and humanity's aspirations, fears, and ethical dilemmas. From the Apple IIc’s promise of portability to the iPhone's redefinition of communication, these objects exemplify how much we shape technology and how much it, in turn, shapes us.Through the lens of techno-mysticism, we also investigate the parallels between ancient practices of divination, like scrying, and contemporary technological experiences, such as video streaming or web searching. Just as the Aztecs believed Tezcatlipoca's obsidian mirror to reveal human thoughts, today's devices serve as portals that connect us to vast networks of information and possibilities. Texto: Daniela Toledo Escárate Máquinas Clarividentes es el resultado de un círculo de estudio dirigido por Gloria López Cleries, que tuvo lugar en el Röhsska Museet (Museo de Diseño y Artesanía) en Gotemburgo, en colaboración con el Programa de Maestría en Diseño Embebido de HDK-Valand, entre octubre de 2024 y enero de 2025. La audio guía tiene como punto de partida cinco objetos tecnológicos de la colección permanente Design Stories, revelando voces ficticias e historias imaginadas que los objetos podrían haber contado. La audio guía&nbsp;Máquinas Clarividentes explora las intersecciones entre magia, materialidad y tecnología, enmarcando cinco dispositivos icónicos de Apple como artefactos tanto de innovación como de encantamiento. Estos objetos, que en su momento fueron revolucionarios, nos invitan ahora a reflexionar sobre su significado cultural y las condiciones que sustentaron su creación. La intervención museística explora la perspectiva poscolonial del tecno-colonialismo, examinando cómo figuras históricas como John Dee se apropiaron del material mesoamericano, la obsidiana, para crear su espejo de adivinación. El espejo de Dee, que supuestamente proviene de Pachuca, México, sirve como metáfora de las prácticas tecno-materiales actuales, donde el atractivo del producto final y la producción masiva rápida suelen oscurecer sus orígenes. Así, los dispositivos en estaaudio guía reflejan la tensión entre sus comienzos materiales y su impacto cultural. Cada dispositivo es un “espejo hiperbólico”, que refleja el progreso tecnológico y las aspiraciones, temores y dilemas éticos de la humanidad. Desde la promesa de portabilidad del Apple IIc hasta la redefinición de la comunicación por parte del iPhone, estos objetos ejemplifican cuánto moldeamos la tecnología y cuánto, a su vez, ella nos moldea a nosotros. A través de la lente del tecno-misticismo, también investigamos los paralelismos entre las prácticas antiguas de adivinación, como la lectura con una bola de cristal, y las experiencias tecnológicas contemporáneas, como la transmisión de video o la búsqueda en la web. Así como los aztecas creían que el espejo de obsidiana de Tezcatlipoca revelaba los pensamientos humanos, los dispositivos de hoy sirven como portales que nos conectan a vastas redes de información y posibilidades. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9487ac04465c66062a9c71b7b69992afd1dc84fbaab7d030092816c254e5aeeb/CM-09.jpg" data-mid="229414240" border="0" data-scale="33" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9487ac04465c66062a9c71b7b69992afd1dc84fbaab7d030092816c254e5aeeb/CM-09.jpg" />&nbsp; <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a73947b2e3c76e5a66fc2c9bdf58eec0a0b5144ff81dc3a9a3bdf5121fdb82f5/Clairvoyant-Machines-DH_web-9430.jpg" data-mid="235392515" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a73947b2e3c76e5a66fc2c9bdf58eec0a0b5144ff81dc3a9a3bdf5121fdb82f5/Clairvoyant-Machines-DH_web-9430.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac3e3f1f672b0b0823054d14b1c24ee28d2c5a0544a23c0f45bfa59d227a58d3/Clairvoyant-Machines-DH_web-3034.jpg" data-mid="235392512" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac3e3f1f672b0b0823054d14b1c24ee28d2c5a0544a23c0f45bfa59d227a58d3/Clairvoyant-Machines-DH_web-3034.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4bf4fd28ad7daa8d268194001de613e54e584d4fe8fbc83c34840984ee58c39c/Clairvoyant-Machines-DH_web-3029.jpg" data-mid="235392686" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4bf4fd28ad7daa8d268194001de613e54e584d4fe8fbc83c34840984ee58c39c/Clairvoyant-Machines-DH_web-3029.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b90d1e406477a1d30527277b86cc73263779b435413024925828cab2ff7bbe25/Clairvoyant-Machines-DH_web-3022.jpg" data-mid="235392514" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b90d1e406477a1d30527277b86cc73263779b435413024925828cab2ff7bbe25/Clairvoyant-Machines-DH_web-3022.jpg" /> &nbsp; Study CircleSep 2024-Mar 2025The project served as a learning platform for master’s design students. Before the exhibition officially opened, we worked closely with technicians, educators, and curators. This allowed them to see how exhibitions are made and to learn directly from the process of planning and designing the show’s content. Over six sessions, the students developed critical perspectives on how exhibitions shape meaning and explored ways artistic research can challenge or expand museum narratives. The project ended with an artistic intervention in the permanent collection: an audio guide that offered new and speculative stories about selected artefacts. This guide encouraged visitors to see the objects not just as consumer products, but also as symbols connected to extraction, exploitation, and myth-making. Circulo de estudio Sep 2024-Mar 2025El proyecto funcionó como una plataforma de aprendizaje para estudiantes de máster en diseño. Antes de la apertura oficial de la exposición, trabajamos en estrecha colaboración con técnicos, educadores y curadores. Esto les permitió conocer de primera mano cómo se construyen las exposiciones y aprender directamente del proceso de planificación y diseño del contenido. A lo largo de seis sesiones, los estudiantes desarrollaron perspectivas críticas sobre cómo las exposiciones producen significado y exploraron formas en que la investigación artística puede cuestionar o ampliar los relatos institucionales del museo. El proyecto culminó con una intervención creativa en el museo: una audioguía que ofrecía relatos nuevos y especulativos sobre una selección de objetos. Esta guía invitaba a los visitantes a ver las piezas no solo como productos de consumo, sino también como símbolos vinculados a la extracción, la explotación y la construcción de mitos. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f21532c21f3afc0f870580eadbeb1705d016b4be7a2594d83438e15dd749c82b/cm09.jpg" data-mid="240252645" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f21532c21f3afc0f870580eadbeb1705d016b4be7a2594d83438e15dd749c82b/cm09.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/085eee8353ff9a09810797e3f2c3173459f7aa201a03a7fe36a5dedd23386a34/cm08.jpg" data-mid="240252644" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/085eee8353ff9a09810797e3f2c3173459f7aa201a03a7fe36a5dedd23386a34/cm08.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f00e6f73926b0ad2c351354e42fbe96189823fd0578323b494796512ee5cd1f6/cm07.jpg" data-mid="240252643" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f00e6f73926b0ad2c351354e42fbe96189823fd0578323b494796512ee5cd1f6/cm07.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97330143b31e38a245ebbdcbe6d2d77dfba5ed28f50285320558dc3dea90fdad/cm06.jpg" data-mid="240252642" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97330143b31e38a245ebbdcbe6d2d77dfba5ed28f50285320558dc3dea90fdad/cm06.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8b5891ffcde61b094976fc1fe131c099a304f2fec6485eb03bd3f310fedd370/cm02.jpg" data-mid="240252637" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a8b5891ffcde61b094976fc1fe131c099a304f2fec6485eb03bd3f310fedd370/cm02.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb4620f57805d7b4d15e9a83416ed100318222635436549629f8c84b930d6561/cm01.jpg" data-mid="240252636" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb4620f57805d7b4d15e9a83416ed100318222635436549629f8c84b930d6561/cm01.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0971778a23d69eef47173a6657438044275dacfb1244edc78144dacfe86c936d/cm10.jpg" data-mid="240252646" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0971778a23d69eef47173a6657438044275dacfb1244edc78144dacfe86c936d/cm10.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ce6db022e1ea738038bf10d3cf30377b5b68a3f888bcdb50f2e6e89295d9640/cm05.jpg" data-mid="240252640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ce6db022e1ea738038bf10d3cf30377b5b68a3f888bcdb50f2e6e89295d9640/cm05.jpg" /> The Website The audio guide is presented in a website format and includes an introduction, five audio pieces corresponding to the five intervened objects, and a conclusion. The site was designed by Clara Öhrfelt with visual contributions by Matteo Guzzo, following a minimalist aesthetic inspired by Apple’s visual language. Navigation is organised through a series of interactive cards that reveal each object or chapter of the project. Each card contains a short text about the object, the transcript of the script in English and Swedish, and the original commercials that served as a point of departure. The journey can be followed freely or in the proposed order, accompanied by the sound guide that shapes the experience of listening and reading. A map allows visitors to locate the objects within the exhibition space, where QR codes can also be scanned to access each section of the site directly. La audio guía se presenta en formato de página web e incluye una introducción, cinco audios correspondientes a los cinco objetos intervenidos y una conclusión. El sitio fue diseñado por Clara Öhrfelt con aportes visuales de Matteo Guzzo, siguiendo una estética minimalista inspirada en el lenguaje visual de Apple. La navegación se organiza a través de una serie de tarjetas interactivas que revelan cada uno de los objetos o capítulo del proyecto. En cada tarjeta se puede encontrar un breve texto sobre el objeto, la transcripción del guion en inglés y sueco, y los comerciales originales que sirvieron como punto de partida. El recorrido puede seguirse libremente o en el orden propuesto, acompañado por la guía sonora que orienta la experiencia de escucha y lectura. Un mapa permite localizar los objetos en el espacio expositivo, donde también se pueden escanear los códigos QR que enlazan directamente con cada sección del sitio. Public Presentation Super Ö - Röhsska Museet 15 march 2025 Website prensentation and conversation We presented the project the 15th March 2025 in the Super Ö space at Röhsska Museet.&nbsp; Event description: People’s fascination with technology takes centre stage as five technological objects from the permanent Design Stories are explored. The result of the investigations is the audio guide, Clairvoyant Machines, created in collaboration with Gloria López Cleries and MA Embedded Design at HDK-Valand. The audio guide gives voice to imagined stories that the five objects might tell. Clairvoyant Machines is presented in Super Ö, followed by an independent experience of the audio guide and a final conversation with a possibility to ask questions. Presentamos el proyecto el 15 de marzo de 2025&nbsp;en el&nbsp;espacio Super Ö del Museo Röhsska. Descripción del evento: La fascinación por la tecnología es la protagonista al explorar cinco objetos tecnológicos de la exposición permanente Historias del Diseño. El resultado de las investigaciones es la audioguía, Clairvoyant Machines, creada en colaboración con Gloria López Cleries y MA Embedded Design en HDK-Valand. La audioguía da voz a historias imaginarias que podrían contar los cinco objetos. Clairvoyant Machines se presenta en Super Ö, seguida de una experiencia independiente de la audioguía y una conversación final con posibilidad de hacer preguntas. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3342bdd9f5a8f9599670e8d94f1212a6de6888fefa5dfdca77bc10c98efcbead/cm-presentation-04.jpg" data-mid="229433832" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3342bdd9f5a8f9599670e8d94f1212a6de6888fefa5dfdca77bc10c98efcbead/cm-presentation-04.jpg" /> <img width="3186" height="1788" width_o="3186" height_o="1788" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b75e6a98ec546495c3a6911598164fe007445ef420d5d2d58284d4e757e55d8/CM-presentation-01.jpg" data-mid="229433834" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b75e6a98ec546495c3a6911598164fe007445ef420d5d2d58284d4e757e55d8/CM-presentation-01.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/178e9dcf959a6aa5400c798cf373815794b446d2d554150ae87b22b6278ff6e6/cm04.jpg" data-mid="240252639" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/178e9dcf959a6aa5400c798cf373815794b446d2d554150ae87b22b6278ff6e6/cm04.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df404c7ec4b955edac88261fb90ad83afbebf51179e9508fe9160b5e87c29289/cm-presentation-03.jpg" data-mid="235392669" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df404c7ec4b955edac88261fb90ad83afbebf51179e9508fe9160b5e87c29289/cm-presentation-03.jpg" /> Clairvoyant Machines presentation, Super Ö, Röhsska Museet, 2025. https://glorialopezcleries.com/Your-Phone-is-a-Scrying-Mirror-When-it-s-Off Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:58:23 +0000 Gloria Lopez https://glorialopezcleries.com/Your-Phone-is-a-Scrying-Mirror-When-it-s-Off Your Phone is a Scrying Mirror. When it’s Off 2024&nbsp; Video Essay,&nbsp;color and sound, 19:32 min. Spanish and English (Spanish subtitles) Link Vimeo Password/Contraseña: espejo Link English script Through this experimental video essay, I seek to define the concept of #PhoneScrying through a scrolling drift through differentsocial networks and content platforms on the internet. An off-voice, created with an artificial intelligence program, narrates their experience with divination through the screen of their mobile phone and their search to learn moreabout this viral method of technological clairvoyance. A través de este videoensayo experimental, busco definir el concepto de #PhoneScrying a través de una deriva por diferentes redes sociales y plataformas de contenidos en internet. Una voz en off, creada con un programa de inteligencia artificial, narra su experiencia con la adivinación a través de la pantalla de su teléfono móvil y su búsqueda para saber más sobre este método viral de clarividencia tecnológica. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f36c9651b49abbe6fbb56abc4ac26f2d7cb503a0ba6806736f968b7e585538d8/Screenshot-2024-08-04-at-19.15.18.png" data-mid="235393602" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f36c9651b49abbe6fbb56abc4ac26f2d7cb503a0ba6806736f968b7e585538d8/Screenshot-2024-08-04-at-19.15.18.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc8c94a6adc8fc55dc94be2f2ee809a0a4e5fac570815b3549661b077c8ebe5b/Screenshot-2024-08-04-at-19.13.00.png" data-mid="235393603" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc8c94a6adc8fc55dc94be2f2ee809a0a4e5fac570815b3549661b077c8ebe5b/Screenshot-2024-08-04-at-19.13.00.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1796" width_o="2880" height_o="1796" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62a724f46b0a99277379bd85eb73d7783e1c5de973f9e322af0ed91d62315b93/Screenshot-2024-08-04-at-19.14.54.png" data-mid="235393599" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62a724f46b0a99277379bd85eb73d7783e1c5de973f9e322af0ed91d62315b93/Screenshot-2024-08-04-at-19.14.54.png" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c798b80d37386f71a00713aefe746ad50f62f3c55ee7a512e4bdafe448d1011/Screenshot-2024-08-04-at-19.14.18.png" data-mid="235393601" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c798b80d37386f71a00713aefe746ad50f62f3c55ee7a512e4bdafe448d1011/Screenshot-2024-08-04-at-19.14.18.png" /> https://glorialopezcleries.com/Tezcatl-Espejo-magico Wed, 17 Nov 2021 08:31:27 +0000 Gloria Lopez https://glorialopezcleries.com/Tezcatl-Espejo-magico Tezcatl (Espejo mágico) 2021 - ongoing Obsidian sculpture&nbsp;iPhone 7 replica: 138.30 x 67.10 x 7.10 mm <img width="2000" height="1335" width_o="2000" height_o="1335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d86efb852a1a42683ea029add340557ba818b57139beaaa5cfa41e3c278da3c/Tezcatl01.jpg" data-mid="124837898" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d86efb852a1a42683ea029add340557ba818b57139beaaa5cfa41e3c278da3c/Tezcatl01.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1335" width_o="2000" height_o="1335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b53345313824ee9e0346439215e9bb271c9d26cbd81f0005f6413f8009d31cd/Tezcatl02.jpg" data-mid="124837899" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b53345313824ee9e0346439215e9bb271c9d26cbd81f0005f6413f8009d31cd/Tezcatl02.jpg" /> Tezcatl, 2021, Gloria López Cleries. Foto:&nbsp;@auraticafotografiadearte Tezcatl (Magic Mirror) is an obsidian sculpture hand-carved in an artisan workshop in Valle de Teotihuacan, Mexico. The sculpture shares the same design as an iPhone 7 and the same raw material that Aztec mirrors were made from, volcanic glass. Obsidian mirrors, called Tezcatl in Náhuatl, were instruments used in sacred rituals and the main attribute of the deity Tezcatlipoca (smoking mirror). Wizards used these polished black glass cylinders to travel to other worlds and see the future. Tezcatl (Espejo mágico) es una escultura de obsidiana tallada a mano en un taller artesanal en el Valle de Teotihuacán, México. La escultura comparte el mismo diseño que un iPhone 7 y la misma materia prima con la que se realizaron los espejos aztecas, vidrio volcánico. Los espejos de obsidiana, llamados Tezcatl en náhuatl, eran instrumentos utilizados en rituales sagrados y el principal atributo de la deidad Tezcatlipoca (espejo humeante). Los hechiceros usaban estos cilindros pulidos de vidrio negro para viajar a otros mundos y ver el futuro. <img width="1275" height="1700" width_o="1275" height_o="1700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e0c69d69d866bda22400790643923ce219436a9a3251529a8c2f243cb305c88/dilalica_comounmundo_0023.jpg" data-mid="124953695" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e0c69d69d866bda22400790643923ce219436a9a3251529a8c2f243cb305c88/dilalica_comounmundo_0023.jpg" /> <img width="1275" height="1700" width_o="1275" height_o="1700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f4304c5d5c4e37c1481715694844f751ff4738cbbe68ca93d0b329af3491e67/dilalica_comounmundo_0021.jpg" data-mid="124953691" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f4304c5d5c4e37c1481715694844f751ff4738cbbe68ca93d0b329af3491e67/dilalica_comounmundo_0021.jpg" /> Tezcatl, 2021, Gloria López Cleries.&nbsp;Foto: Aleix Plademunt Audiovisual documentation - Tezcatl (Magic Mirror). Gloria López Cleries 202100:00 Documentation of the obsidian extraction process at the geological site located at the western end of the town of Magdalena in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. 01:16 Documentation of the carving and polishing processes of the sculpture by hand of the master craftsman José Enrique Gerardo Cuevas Nájera at Taller de Obsidiana located in San Martín de las Pirámides, Teotihuacán Valley, state of Mexico. Documentación audiovisual - Tezcatl (Espejo mágico)Gloria López Cleries 2021 00:00 Documentación del proceso de extracción de obsidiana en el yacimiento geológico ubicado en el extremo occidental del poblado de Magdalena en el estado de Jalisco, México.01:16 Documentación de los procesos de tallado y pulido de la escultura a mano del maestro artesano José Enrique Gerardo Cuevas Nájera en el Taller de Obsidiana situado en San Martín de las Pirámides, Valle de Teotihuacán, estado de México. <img width="1000" height="700" width_o="1000" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9dc0f33ea0e7821d85692efa5d8cf992425aaa866ab692827533ea93cdb7ff0a/20200529-Libro-Ulloa_0.jpg" data-mid="161015283" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9dc0f33ea0e7821d85692efa5d8cf992425aaa866ab692827533ea93cdb7ff0a/20200529-Libro-Ulloa_0.jpg" /> https://glorialopezcleries.com/ASMR-Reading-You-to-SLEEP Thu, 05 Nov 2020 16:41:02 +0000 Gloria Lopez https://glorialopezcleries.com/ASMR-Reading-You-to-SLEEP [ASMR] Reading You To SLEEP. Soft Spoken Relaxation About Affective Capitalism 2020 Videos on YouTube and Vimeo 5 videos In collaboration with Aino ASMR, Ailen Lucia ASMR, Abi ASMR, easy ASMR and Articulate Desgin ASMR Languages: Swedish, English, Spanish Online Publication and activations (Performative Lectures: Live Streaming Sessions on Instagram) <img width="1720" height="1181" width_o="1720" height_o="1181" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9c5bb9fc8dafe3429d877468ac0c3f5847b8318a3cd7e5d7acf82f9ca2a59de/GloriaLopez_ASMR-04.png" data-mid="124977138" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9c5bb9fc8dafe3429d877468ac0c3f5847b8318a3cd7e5d7acf82f9ca2a59de/GloriaLopez_ASMR-04.png" /> The project is a collaboration with creators of the online therapeutic culture ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response). This viral trend has become a collective and altruistic response to help people with insomnia, depression and anxiety, common symptoms and pathologies associated with the demands of our accelerated present. I wrote and shared five texts on topics related to the context of care and the capitalisation of emotions with five ASMR creators in the summer of 2019.&nbsp; As a result, each of the collaborators translated the text in their own ASMR style and published the result on their YouTube channel.&nbsp; The work shows how the need for therapeutic and relaxing alternative digital spaces has grown, and creates a subversive critical perspective from within. The project invites to experience a critical reading of the rise of individual therapeutic solutions through soft whispers and soothing sounds. The online display offers the opportunity to analyse its own natural environment in the digital realm. Its subversive potential lies precisely in this destabilisation of reality, insisting on estrangement, and transforming a critical positioning into a physical/sensory experience through ASMR.&nbsp; ACT 1: Sleep-mode. The insomniac spectator in the attention economyACT 2: You are your own biggest project. The creative and happy entrepreneurACT 3: Taking care of you. Affective Capitalism (Mi amiga intergalactica te maquilla)ACT 4: Don’t forget to subscribe! Affective Networks and the monetisation of emotionsACT 5: Give me more triggers. In pursuit of immediate satisfaction El proyecto es una colaboración con creadores de la cultura terapéutica online ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response). Esta tendencia viral se ha convertido en una respuesta colectiva y altruista para ayudar a las personas con insomnio, depresión y ansiedad, síntomas y patologías comunes asociadas a las exigencias de nuestro presente acelerado. En el verano de 2019 escribí y compartí cinco textos sobre temas relacionados con el contexto de los cuidados y la capitalización de las emociones online con cinco ASMR creadores. Como resultado, cada una de les colaboradores tradujo el texto con su estilo ASMR y publicaron el resultado en su canal de YouTube. La obra muestra cómo ha crecido la necesidad de espacios digitales alternativos terapéuticos y relajantes, y crea una perspectiva crítica subversiva desde dentro. El proyecto invita a experimentar una lectura crítica del aumento de soluciones terapéuticas individuales a través de suaves susurros y sonidos relajantes. El display online ofrece la oportunidad de analizar su propio entorno natural en el ámbito digital. Su potencial subversivo reside precisamente en esta desestabilización de la realidad, insistiendo en el extrañamiento, y transformando un posicionamiento crítico en una experiencia física/sensorial a través del ASMR. Acto 1: Sleep-mode. El espectador insomne en la economia de la atención Acto 2: Tu eres tu mayor proyecto. El emprendedor creativo y feliz Acto 3: Cuidando de ti. Capitalismo afectivo. (Mi amiga intergalactica te maquilla) Acto 4: No olvides suscribirte! Las redes afectivas y la monetización de emociones Acto 5: Dame más triggers. En búsqueda de la satisfacción inmediata &nbsp; &nbsp; ACT 1: Sleep-mode. The insomniac spectator in the attention economy In collaboration with Aino ASMR Swedish, subtitles in English 00:11:35 In this Act Aino ASMR performs the doctor in a sleep clinic roleplay. The Sleep Clinic Role-play is a common genre in ASMR, where the ASMR artist performs a close clinical exploration to help the viewer to sleep.&nbsp;In the ACT, the performer conducts a participative experiment about “Social Media and Sleep” and asks personal questions meanwhile playing a pre-recorded audio with information about the attention ecconomy and sleeping as a non-productive action. Acto 1: Sleep-mode. El espectador insomne en la economia de la atenciónEn colaboración con Aino ASMR Sueco, subtitulos en inglés00:11:35 En este acto Aino ASMR actúa como médico en un juego de rol de clínica del sueño (sleep clinique). El juego de rol de clínica del sueño es un género común en la comunidad ASMR, donde la ASMRartista realiza una exploración clínica cercana&nbsp;para ayudar al espectador a dormir. En este acto, Aino ASMR realiza un experimento&nbsp;participativo sobre “Redes sociales y sueño” y formula preguntas personales mientras&nbsp;reproduce un audio pregrabado con información sobre la economía de la atención y el&nbsp;sueño como acción no productiva. ACT 2: You are your own biggest project. The creative and happy entrepreneur In collaboration with Ailen Lucia ASMR&nbsp; Spanish, subtitles in English 00:18:02 Ailén Lucía ASMR performs the “personal attention” roleplay. In this type of roleplay, intimacy and direct speech with touching the camera lens fake a close-up intimate situation.&nbsp;In this ACT, divided in two parts, the performer mimics other ASMR artists’ attentive behaviours, but in the second part she reads an academic text about the role of emotions in market economy. Acto 2: Tu eres tu mayor proyecto. El emprendedor creativo y felizEn colaboración con Ailen Lucia ASMR Español, subtítulos en inglés&nbsp;00:18:02 Ailén Lucía ASMR realiza el role-play de “atención personal”. En este tipo de juego de rol, la intimidad y el discurso directo con el toque del objetivo de la cámara fingen&nbsp;una situación de intimidad en primer plano. En este Acto, dividido en dos partes, la&nbsp;intérprete imita los comportamientos de otras ASMR artistas, pero en la segunda&nbsp;parte lee un texto crítico sobre el papel de las emociones y la imposición de la&nbsp;felicidad en la economía de mercado. ACT 3: Taking care of you. Affective Capitalism (Mi amiga intergalactica te maquilla) In collaboration with Abi ASMR Spanish, subtitles in English 00:16:53 Abi ASMR performs a make-up session with her role-play called “Your intergalactic friend”. This type of make- up session is common in the ASMR community, establishing an intimate relationship with the viewer meanwhile performing care actions (massaging, applying make-up, etc.).&nbsp;The performer decided to not read the article but introduce terms such as Affective Capitalism as part of her role-play. Acto 3: Cuidando de ti. Capitalismo afectivo. (Mi amiga intergalactica te maquilla)En colaboración con Abi ASMR Español, subtítulos en inglés00:16:53 En el Acto 3, Abi ASMR realiza una sesión de maquillaje con su juego de rol llamado “Tu amiga intergaláctica”.&nbsp;Este tipo de sesión de maquillaje es común en la comunidad ASMR, estableciendo&nbsp;una relación íntima con el espectador mientras se realizan acciones de cuidado&nbsp;(masajes, aplicación de maquillaje, etc.). Abi ASMR decidió no leer el artículo, sino&nbsp;introducir términos como “capitalismo afectivo” como parte de su juego de rol y hacer&nbsp;preguntas al espectador. ACT 4: Don’t forget to subscribe! Affective Networks and the monetisation of emotions In collaboration with easy ASMR English 00:15:00 easy ASMR performs an academic text about social media and affective platforms in his particular ASMR style&nbsp;He performs the text through different triggers and sound effects to create a physical reaction. Acto 4: No olvides suscribirte! Las redes afectivas y la monetización de emocionesEn colaboración con easy ASMRInglés.00:15:00 En el acto 4, easy ASMR interpreta un texto académico sobre los medios sociales y las plataformas afectivas en su particular estilo ASMR. Interpreta el texto a través de diferentes&nbsp;triggers y efectos sonoros para crear una reacción física. ACT 5: Give me more triggers. In pursuit of immediate satisfactionIn collaboration with Articulate Design ASMR&nbsp;English 00:22:37 Articulate Design ASMR is a famous ASMR creator on the ASMR YouTube community. With more than 190K subscribers his style is characterised by performing VIP role-plays. In this collaboration he&nbsp;decided to perform “the academic researcher”, questioning my text&nbsp;through his own perspective. The collaborator disagreed with uploading&nbsp;the video on his YouTube channel for ideological reasons. According to&nbsp;our negotiation it must be displayed in a gallery context with headphones. Acto 5: Dame más triggers. En búsqueda de la satisfacción inmediataEn colaboración con Articulate Design ASMRInglés00:22:37 Articulate Design ASMR es un famoso ASMRtist en la comunidad ASMR de YouTube. Con casi 190.000 suscriptores, su estilo se caracteriza por realizar juegos de rol VIP. En esta&nbsp;colaboración decidió interpretar al “investigador académico”, cuestionando mi texto a través&nbsp;de su propia perspectiva.&nbsp;El colaborador no estaba de acuerdo con subir el vídeo a su canal de YouTube por razones&nbsp;“ideológicas”. De acuerdo con nuestra negociación, el video resultadode nuestra colaboración&nbsp;debe ser exhibido en el contexto de una galería con auriculares. <img width="1754" height="1160" width_o="1754" height_o="1160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e9fdced0c02173ce76e68df195f9dbc5b4ea6ed8c5dafc97046a0b7a29889b0/Captura-de-pantalla-2023-01-14-a-las-17.10.24.png" data-mid="164703424" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e9fdced0c02173ce76e68df195f9dbc5b4ea6ed8c5dafc97046a0b7a29889b0/Captura-de-pantalla-2023-01-14-a-las-17.10.24.png" /> Followers’ reactions/ Reacciones de los followersPublications&nbsp; &nbsp; López Cleries, G., Give me more (triggers). En busca de la satisfacción inmediata. Cómete la Naturaleza Muerta, Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid, 2023, pp. 37-38.&nbsp; &nbsp; López Cleries, G, [ASMR] Reading You to SLEEP. Soft Spoken Relaxation about Affective Capitalism. Art project Catalogue. January, 2023. (Spanish). ISBN: 978-84-09-47946-7&nbsp; &nbsp; López Cleries, G., Give Me More Triggers: The Therapeutic Turn in the Popular Culture Industry, At This Point, Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg, 2020, pp. 97-114. &nbsp; &nbsp; López Cleries, G., Give Me More Triggers: el giro terapéutico en la indústria cultural. Exit-express.com, Microensayos, Febrero 2020. Exhibitions and Performative Lectures &nbsp; &nbsp; Happily Ever After, Malmö Konstmuseum, 2023/24. Curated by Julia Björnberg and Anna Johansson. &nbsp; &nbsp; Give me More Triggers. Perfomative lecture in collaboration with Ailén Lucia ASMR, in Cómete la Naturaleza Muerta, Sala Amadís, INJUVE, Madrid. January, 2023.&nbsp; &nbsp; IMMATERIAL, Encuentro sobre realidades mediadas por lo digital, curated by Ontologias Feministas, Tabakalera, Spain, 2021. Happily Ever AfterMalmö Konstmuseum, SwedenCurators: Julia Björnberg &amp; Anna JohanssonInstallation Design in collaboration with Pablo Encinas Alonso10/2023- 04/2024 Curatorial text: Our feeling indicate that something is important to us – but how do we actually know what is important when dreams and ideals have become saleable goods? Happily Ever After brings together artists who explore convergences between the psyche and the social in a time when private, public, emotional, and economic spheres are increasingly entangled. The exhibition investigates the complex interplay between feelings and capital in a social system mobilized by effectivization and optimization. Through a range of forms of artistic expression, topics such as mindfulness, welfare state profits, the tech industry, and social media are addressed. Together, the works point to how our mode of experiencing and expressing feelings is in flux and how these changes in turn affect how we see ourselves, each other, and society. What happens when our feelings and the notion of happiness are exploited for profit and control. What are the social consequences and how can we resist? Muhammad Ali, Anita Christoffersson, Markus Copper, Jeanne Dunning, Stina Ebers, Elis Eriksson, Helena Fernández-Cavada, Ester Fleckner, Jenny Grönvall, Ramón Guillén-Balmes, Sive Hamilton Helle, Leif Holmstrand, Adelita Husni-Bey, E.B. Itso, Jesper Just, Joachim Koester, Jukka Korkeila, Ellinor Lager, Gloria López Cleries, Truls Melin, Britt-Ingrid Persson, Iris Smeds, Superflex, Hannah Toticki and Ulla Wiggen Texto curatorial:Nuestros sentimientos indican que algo es importante para nosotros, pero ¿cómo sabemos realmente lo que es importante cuando los sueños y los ideales se han convertido en mercancías vendibles? Happily Ever After (felices para siempre) reúne a artistas que exploran las convergencias entre lo psíquico y lo social en una época en la que las esferas privada, pública, emocional y económica están cada vez más entrelazadas. La exposición investiga la compleja interacción entre sentimientos y capital en un sistema social movilizado por la efectivización y la optimización. A través de diversas formas de expresión artística, se abordan temas como la atención plena, los beneficios del Estado del bienestar, la industria tecnológica y las redes sociales. En conjunto, las obras señalan cómo nuestro modo de experimentar y expresar los sentimientos está cambiando y cómo estos cambios afectan a su vez a la forma en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos, a los demás y a la sociedad. ¿Qué ocurre cuando nuestros sentimientos y la noción de felicidad se explotan con fines lucrativos y de control? ¿Cuáles son las consecuencias sociales y cómo podemos resistir? <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7f82ceac1c39f8e0ab06dd6bf4599bd305011b44d9c63e26ee525b8e1085f36/Helene-Toresdotter-01-web.jpg" data-mid="197248239" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7f82ceac1c39f8e0ab06dd6bf4599bd305011b44d9c63e26ee525b8e1085f36/Helene-Toresdotter-01-web.jpg" />Happily Ever After, Malmö Konstmuseum, 2023. Image: Helene Toresdotter <img width="1667" height="2500" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0926a485d482c41720a96ec6282f1aebebe286f841438b22f91d8d66a35e940/Henrik-Hellstrom-_happily_ever_after_web.jpg" data-mid="197248242" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0926a485d482c41720a96ec6282f1aebebe286f841438b22f91d8d66a35e940/Henrik-Hellstrom-_happily_ever_after_web.jpg" /> Happily Ever After, Malmö Konstmuseum, 2023. Image:&nbsp;Henrik Hellström <img width="3072" height="4096" width_o="3072" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/331d8e281d729f85e9458fe1c6866435f64e2590aae4b14adb6da9d14572bd77/IMG_20231027_185140--retocadaweb.jpg" data-mid="197248244" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/331d8e281d729f85e9458fe1c6866435f64e2590aae4b14adb6da9d14572bd77/IMG_20231027_185140--retocadaweb.jpg" /> <img width="3072" height="4096" width_o="3072" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78ade344b4de15cea8fa9be63d11eaac35b3748db609b01704a2c62642c69786/IMG_20231027_185124web.jpg" data-mid="197248243" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78ade344b4de15cea8fa9be63d11eaac35b3748db609b01704a2c62642c69786/IMG_20231027_185124web.jpg" /> <img width="2737" height="3679" width_o="2737" height_o="3679" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52619b6a02b84af5e4f0f0adfe0f7c5d20b60e83d11701b4e31606d285dcc6d7/IMG_20231027_180138web.jpg" data-mid="197248245" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/52619b6a02b84af5e4f0f0adfe0f7c5d20b60e83d11701b4e31606d285dcc6d7/IMG_20231027_180138web.jpg" /> <img width="3072" height="4096" width_o="3072" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7830c461f2b2c4450e8511ea3b50cb22e0811215e6891f502c556ac90df98e67/IMG_20231027_180143web.jpg" data-mid="197248254" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7830c461f2b2c4450e8511ea3b50cb22e0811215e6891f502c556ac90df98e67/IMG_20231027_180143web.jpg" /> <img width="1396" height="924" width_o="1396" height_o="924" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3fe6a43c0be0e9a6490aefad9fb11cb3a64b685420603bbd1be6dd4c5c7948a2/Amniotic-Exhibition-Desing-02.png" data-mid="216729564" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3fe6a43c0be0e9a6490aefad9fb11cb3a64b685420603bbd1be6dd4c5c7948a2/Amniotic-Exhibition-Desing-02.png" /> <img width="1514" height="1070" width_o="1514" height_o="1070" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d2916b3a4f08d7e3abb86a8c16a960ba4fc5390afc3d0dd15e07158f9dadb33/Amniotic-Exhibition-Desing-01.png" data-mid="216729563" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d2916b3a4f08d7e3abb86a8c16a960ba4fc5390afc3d0dd15e07158f9dadb33/Amniotic-Exhibition-Desing-01.png" /> <img width="1350" height="830" width_o="1350" height_o="830" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ccafbeb646160376dcc93dfa0da109b9366f21cedc5f0921fcbecbc97facaebb/Amniotic-Exhibition-Desing-03.png" data-mid="216729565" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ccafbeb646160376dcc93dfa0da109b9366f21cedc5f0921fcbecbc97facaebb/Amniotic-Exhibition-Desing-03.png" /> <img width="1488" height="1002" width_o="1488" height_o="1002" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3421a85592a94c49f1e26bcf72d53df781fee73cdaf98eba3de002d6277db63/Amniotic-Exhibition-Desing-04.png" data-mid="216729566" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3421a85592a94c49f1e26bcf72d53df781fee73cdaf98eba3de002d6277db63/Amniotic-Exhibition-Desing-04.png" /> The Amniotic Installation Device was designed for the exhibition Happily Ever After, &nbsp;Malmö Konstmuseum, 2023in collaboration with Pablo Encinas Alonso.&nbsp; Images by Pablo Encinas Alonso. PUBLICACIÓN ONLINE © Gloria López Cleries, 2023 ASMR Reading You to SLEEP. Soft Spoken Relaxation about Affective Capitalism Enero 2023 Texto e ilustraciones: Gloria López Cleries Diseño: Lani DuVall Publicación financiada por Konstnärsnämnden. The Swedish Art Grants Committee &gt;&nbsp;Enlace publicación Español &gt; Link English Publication Abstract:&nbsp; [ASMR] Reading You to SLEEP. Soft Spoken Relaxation about Affective Capitalism (2023) by Gloria López Cleries is an artistic research project that interrogates the cultural and political dimensions of ASMR within the context of platform capitalism. Drawing on theorists such as Fisher, Berardi, Ahmed, Illouz and Srnicek, the book analyses how ASMR’s therapeutic and intimate aesthetics often reproduce neoliberal rhetorics of self-care, individualisation and positive psychology. Structured into five “Acts”, the work explores themes including the attention economy, entrepreneurial subjectivity, affective capitalism, and the monetisation of emotions. Through collaborations with international ASMR creators, the project situates critical discourse inside the very media environment it critiques, turning ASMR’s soothing triggers into tools for reflection on exhaustion, vulnerability, and the privatisation of discomfort under late capitalism. Resumen: [ASMR] Leyéndote hasta DORMIR. Relajación en voz suave sobre el capitalismo afectivo (2023) de Gloria López Cleries es un proyecto de investigación artística que interroga las dimensiones culturales y políticas del ASMR dentro del contexto del capitalismo de plataformas. Basándose en teóricos como Fisher, Berardi, Ahmed, Illouz y Srnicek, el libro analiza cómo la estética terapéutica e íntima del ASMR reproduce con frecuencia las retóricas neoliberales del autocuidado, la individualización y la psicología positiva. Estructurado en cinco “Actos”, el trabajo explora temas como la economía de la atención, la subjetividad emprendedora, el capitalismo afectivo y la monetización de las emociones. A través de colaboraciones con creadores internacionales de ASMR, el proyecto sitúa el discurso crítico dentro del propio entorno mediático que critica, transformando los estímulos relajantes del ASMR en herramientas de reflexión sobre el agotamiento, la vulnerabilidad y la privatización del malestar en el capitalismo tardío. <img width="1910" height="1354" width_o="1910" height_o="1354" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8970f3b198bb7d8ff3d885da3c7110caee10348fadf0f94ddbef8f2735eb752f/Captura-de-pantalla-2023-01-13-a-las-17.58.42.png" data-mid="164703524" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8970f3b198bb7d8ff3d885da3c7110caee10348fadf0f94ddbef8f2735eb752f/Captura-de-pantalla-2023-01-13-a-las-17.58.42.png" /> <img width="1912" height="1348" width_o="1912" height_o="1348" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26b137b67553f342e359ebbc324ad65a7fee0cf22b97adde6e92c4f141ef5eaa/Captura-de-pantalla-2023-01-13-a-las-17.58.49.png" data-mid="164703527" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26b137b67553f342e359ebbc324ad65a7fee0cf22b97adde6e92c4f141ef5eaa/Captura-de-pantalla-2023-01-13-a-las-17.58.49.png" /> <img width="1914" height="1352" width_o="1914" height_o="1352" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48f403146a5e1af55b044219acc1fdea6628f0bd5656e2f57a5406aa59d5dfbe/Captura-de-pantalla-2023-01-13-a-las-17.58.57.png" data-mid="164703533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48f403146a5e1af55b044219acc1fdea6628f0bd5656e2f57a5406aa59d5dfbe/Captura-de-pantalla-2023-01-13-a-las-17.58.57.png" /> <img width="1916" height="1346" width_o="1916" height_o="1346" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d85a6758fd974762067c10b7e9551bf85159d39016538e6b87c5bd1dc201f65d/Captura-de-pantalla-2023-01-13-a-las-17.59.04.png" data-mid="164704051" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d85a6758fd974762067c10b7e9551bf85159d39016538e6b87c5bd1dc201f65d/Captura-de-pantalla-2023-01-13-a-las-17.59.04.png" /> https://glorialopezcleries.com/The-Unreal Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:00:17 +0000 Gloria Lopez https://glorialopezcleries.com/The-Unreal The Unreal 2019 Machinima film 13:50 min. Visuals: Sive Hamilton HelleConcept, text and Spanish voice: Gloria López CleriesEnglish voice: Lucy WilsonMusic: Ernesto Ojeda Link English version Link Spanish version (Password: gothenburg) <img width="1340" height="837" width_o="1340" height_o="837" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c89e823ffa16914efeda64271a1826a92292775fc3ab0a9c1795b26fba589315/Skjermbilde-2019-08-28-kl.-15.05.16_1340_c.png" data-mid="124716085" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c89e823ffa16914efeda64271a1826a92292775fc3ab0a9c1795b26fba589315/Skjermbilde-2019-08-28-kl.-15.05.16_1340_c.png" /> The Unreal is an artificial space created with the game software “Unreal Engine”. In a guided tour inspired by a meditation guide, the viewer is led across a mine landscape. Through a metaphorical approach and a recreation of a utopian reality, we simulate a walkable immersive virtual experience. The route, marked by a speculative derive, offers a representation of Silicon Valley's imaginaries about the infinite and individual freedom. A contradictory narrative exalts the failure of techno-capitalism alternatives and the colonization of all imagined spaces. The Unreal es un espacio artificial creado con el software de video juegos “Unreal Engine”. En una visita guiada inspirada en una meditación guiada, una voz nos acompaña a través del paisaje de una mina. A través de un acercamiento metafórico y la recreación de una realidad utópica, simulamos una experiencia virtual transitable. El recorrido, caracterizado por una deriva especulativa, ofrece una representación de los imaginarios de Silicon Valley sobre el infinito y la libertad individual. Una narrativa contradictoria exalta el fracaso de las alternativas del tecno-capitalismo y la colonización de todos los espacios imaginados. Events 2024 Milan Machinima Festival, Dec 20 - January 2 2025 - &nbsp;Introduced by Matteo Bittanti 2023 Festival/ Group exhibition, OFF Bratislava – THE HOUSE OF PLAUSIBLE, PROBABLE, POSSIBLE AND PREFERABLE FUTURES, Festival of Contemporary Photography, Kunsthalle Bratislava.2023 Group exhibition, Happily Ever After, curated by Julia Björnberg &amp; Anna Johansson. Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö. 2022 Group exhibition, "How to Win at Photography", The Photographers’ Gallery, London.&nbsp; 2022 Screening ISEA 2022 -International Symposium of Electronic Art, CCCB and CERC, Barcelona.&nbsp; 2022 Screening CYCLO Festival, Sala Pirandello, Madrid, Spain. @cyclomadrid 2021 Screening BIENAL SUR, Teatro Margarita Xirgu, Ciudad de Buenos Aires. 2021 Screening STREAMS Transformative Environmental Humanities, Stockholm 3–6 August 2021 2021 Screening, IMMATERIAL TV, Encuentro sobre realidades mediadas por lo digital, Tabakalera, Spain. 2021 Group exhibition, "How to Win at Photography", Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. Digital Catalogue 2020 Online exhibition, The Unreal, ADAF – Athens Digital Art Festival. 2020 Screening, Posespacios. The Unreal, Injuve, Madrid. 2019 Group exhibition, The Unreal, Welcome to the Antropoceno, Museo de Salamanca, Spain. 2019 Online exhibition, The Unreal, Internet Moon Gallery. Publications "The Unreal: Imaginaries of Techno-colonialism", MAST Journal, Media, Materiality, and Emergency, Vol. 1 | No. 2 | Nov. 2020, Edited by Timothy Barker. Featured in De Correspondent alongside article by Evgeny Morozov, may 2021. Link <img width="1340" height="837" width_o="1340" height_o="837" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c058964624ce389eba6fd265f204eb0aede77b1c439903e2ad01bd5821ccd54/Still2_1340_c.jpg" data-mid="124716086" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c058964624ce389eba6fd265f204eb0aede77b1c439903e2ad01bd5821ccd54/Still2_1340_c.jpg" /><img width="1340" height="753" width_o="1340" height_o="753" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0c8849b2d01e67e871fb5af5294f3628dc79a106eb10d1cc6e1dc0889411e8d/TheUnreal_still.2_1340_c.png" data-mid="124716087" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0c8849b2d01e67e871fb5af5294f3628dc79a106eb10d1cc6e1dc0889411e8d/TheUnreal_still.2_1340_c.png" /> <img width="1260" height="690" width_o="1260" height_o="690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1105546b87c2c5bf009928e8a8daad4b4b1696ae13fc2c974eee256cc14f373f/the-unreal-web.jpg" data-mid="124951478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1105546b87c2c5bf009928e8a8daad4b4b1696ae13fc2c974eee256cc14f373f/the-unreal-web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/adb0b3ee9296fdfdb8dc137960389d0dc2b4a458b5934e2d988626a652be98ba/09_The-Unreal.jpg" data-mid="245529991" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/adb0b3ee9296fdfdb8dc137960389d0dc2b4a458b5934e2d988626a652be98ba/09_The-Unreal.jpg" /> The Unreal, Gloria López Cleries and Sive Hamilton Helle, Malmö Konstmuseum, 2023.