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FOCARIS
Juan Alonso + Nicolás Rico
Full HD Video, 02:56, 2014

"Focaris" is a reflection on memory and cities. Taking pictures in Google SV of places I have inhabited along my life course, I built a series of cardboard mockups and on them we projected our houses, the homes in which I have dwelled (“focaris” means “home” in Latin).

Hence, this Project is about the deformation of memory but it is also a consideration about the memory of cities created by Google and its idea of a “new world” built by means of a technological device in which we can travel in our personal memory in a way  similar to the way we travel in the memory of Google.

This video has been projected at:

- INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL. XI MEDIA ART MONOGRAPHIC SHOW, at Los Fundadores Theatre, Manizales, Colombia, 2015.

- 13 ATHENS DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL, Athens, Greece, 2017

- 2 INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL OF MANIZALES. Rogelio Salmona Cultural Center, Manizales, Colombia, November 6th to 11th, 2017.

- MIDEN VIDEOART FESTIVAL. Archeological Museum of Messenia, Kalamata, Greece, 2018.

- 14. ATHENS DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL. Parallel project “Cities-Pol(e)is. Aristoteles High School, Athens, Greece, 2018