{"id":8085,"date":"2025-05-22T14:26:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topo.art\/?post_type=programmation&p=8085"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:33:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:33:44","slug":"emportales-a-pasados-por-venir-em-mel-izanami","status":"publish","type":"programmation","link":"https:\/\/topo.art\/en\/programmation\/emportales-a-pasados-por-venir-em-mel-izanami\/","title":{"rendered":"Portales a Pasados por Venir <\/em> | Mel Izanami"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\t\t\tAs part of his residency at UQAM\u2019s Decolonial Art and Research Laboratory (LabARD), Mel Izanami is continuing to develop his project Portales a Pasados por Venir <\/em> : an exploration of uchrony in science fiction as a speculative tool for challenging the hegemonic narratives of Western cultural history. \n

\nIn collaboration with TOPO - Centre de cr\u00e9ation num\u00e9rique and Perte de Signal, the artist will present the progress of his research in two parts.\n<\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Talk : Speculative worlds outside the hegemonic perspective of the story<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\tMay 28th, 5:00pm \n
TOPO \u2013 Digital Creation Centre <\/b>\n
\nThe artist proposes a talk of approximately one and a half hours (with Q&A) at the TOPO Digital Creation Center. There, he will present his current work on creating an alternative world through a uchronic vision, the tools and theoretical framework that led him to create this universe, and the various references that led him to create narrative microfiction. He will then explain how we can use these tools to reconstruct the processes of colonial indoctrination through decolonial epistemology, science fiction, and augmented reality.\n

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Workshop : Augmented reality as a decolonial tool<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\tMay 31th, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm
Perte de signal<\/b>
\nIn this workshop, participants are invited to create a simple augmented reality experience using web markers. \n

On the programme :<\/b>\n
\n1.\tIntroduction to the process of the work.\n
\n2.\tReconstructing the processes of colonial indoctrination through decolonial epistemology, science fiction, and augmented reality. (includes a Q&A session)\n
\n3.\tIntroduction to MindAR and its libraries (A-Frame\/Three.js).\n
\n4.\tWebAR creation lab + contextual discussion.\n

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\n\u2022\tLaptop and mobile phone
\n\u2022\tBasic knowledge of animation or digital design (not compulsory)\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tWhat would Mexico look like in a world where the Spanish conquest never happened? Based on this approach, Mel Izanami has explored various expressive possibilities. The first one is an Augmented Reality (AR) experience, where phones and tablets become portals to alternate pasts and presents, offering audiences a futuristic vision of how pre-Columbian technology might have evolved in the contemporary world. This experience was disseminated through QR codes installed in public spaces across several countries in the Americas (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Brazil,\nMexico, and Canada).\n

\nIn parallel, he developed a speculative microfiction that explores the turning point that gave rise to this new timeline. It is presented as a NetArt Fakeweb piece that reinterprets the period known as the conquest of Mexico.\n

\nMel Izanami considers it essential to spread these disruptive narratives to other regions as an act of resistance against hegemonic discourses, breaking with the Eurocentric paradigm and inviting reflection on the cultures of Indigenous peoples.\n<\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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