NATASHA BARRETT (NO/UK)
Ghosts of the Children (8'36" - 2024)

EDMAR SORIA (MX)
Silistrato (8'18")

NATASHA BARRETT (NO/UK) Ghosts of the Children (2024)
The piece explores themes of loss, memory, and the traces we leave behind. The work emerged from field recordings made in abandoned schools and playgrounds across Northern Europe, spaces that once resonated with the voices and footsteps of children but now stand empty. Through electronic processing and spatial composition, these recordings are transformed into a meditation on absence and presence. The visual component consists of slow-moving imagery of these deserted places, where nature gradually reclaims human-made structures. Shadows, light patterns, and architectural details become choreographic elements that dance with the processed sounds of phantom voices and ghostly reverberations.

EDMAR SORIA (MX) Silistrato
The term 'Silistrato' is proposed here, as the conceptual and epistemological union between 'silicon' and 'substrate', in reference to the problem of substrate independence that, from the perspective of General Artificial Intelligence, raises the mind-body separability and, as a consequence, the possibility of implementing 'artificial consciousness' in any medium or substrate, not necessarily or exclusively carbon-based-biological-human. This work is proposed as a transmedia audiovisual experience that allows the viewer to place her/himself in the first person position, in the journey of a machinic entity that wanders over the vastness of the different post-anthropogenic landscapes, product of a series of unknown events that culminated at some point in the history of mankind, in the degradation of water to a critical level of sterility.