Internet Moon Gallery

Bridges To Steganos

Solimán López

Full Moon March 12th, 2017

Bridges to Steganos, a hidden digital art exhibition:

Digital art is made of files. Files are made of information. Art is information. Information is made of code. Code is a language. A language hides secrets. Gestures, play on words. Ancient iconography, has a lot of second lectures inside each canvas.

Artist used to include secret meanings to the images that they created. A machiavellian game, funny one, but only for few people who knew how to read the image, the hidden information. In our era, the information is a tool, a bargaining chip to achieve dark purposes, and this is happening all the time thanks to one thing. Digital files. They travel all around the world, been downloaded, send, sold and acquired. But, can a digital artwork stores hidden information? The answer is yes, and this is what is happen in “Bridges to steganos”. Internet Moon Gallery becomes the platform to stores digital art files that are hidden unrevealed information.

The user must to navigate through the virtual degraded spaces to find the augmented data. You could download many files, but only the high level users, could achieve the real meaning of this exhibition.

Solimán López

Solimán López (Burgos, 1981, Spain), BA in Art history and Art and Communication Master, is media artist, department of I+D+i director in ESAT (Escuela Superior de Arte y Tecnología de Valencia) and Harddiskmuseum founder.

He develops his work and investigation applying and analyzing the technology from a technical and conceptual point of view creating pieces of digital art, interactive, performance, and media art in general. He uses strong references to the art history, the social changes obtained by the technological revolution paradigm and the new language proposed by the digital itself.

His work has been shown in many countries such as Venezuela (I Bienal de Arte Emergente), Cuba (Festival de Camagüey), Nicaragua (CCE), Mexico (CCE), El Salvador (CCE), Argentina (MACBA – Buenos Aires, MAC – Bahía Blanca, Palacio Ferreyra – Córdoba, Timoteo Navarro – Tucumán), Sweden (SwitzerlandArtSpace), Pasadena and Chicaco (MIA Festival), Portugal (Au pie de la Montagne Show) or Greece (Create an Accident) and museums such as CAC of Málaga, IVAM of Valencia (Tecnometrías and Sustratos exhibition), Matadero Madrid, Museo Centro del Carmen (Valencia), Centro Cibeles (Madrid), I-CAS (Sevilla)…

Solimán has been invited for making talks, conferences and workshops in Tedx Valladolid, Bancaja Foundation, Injuve, UPV Valencia, UFSM (Santa María – Brazil), UNESP (Brazil), Espacio Plá (Buenos Aires), MAC (Bahía Blanca), CAAC Cuenca, Brieffestival (Medialab Prado Madrid) or Digitall (Valencia) among others.