the value (a shadow cast by collective meaning)
Video, 2025
About the artwork
The Value (a shadow cast by collective meaning) is part of The Consensus of Reality musical video series. This one was made by returning to a old prompt about the Yami Ichi, a digital art flea market, adapting the prompt to the Consensus of Reality (CoR) prompts, but with a twist: I was looking for a more photographic outputs with the CoR drawing characters. And I was able to made the results. Then I start thinking more about the flea market in the third world and the street, dialy economy, where aslo people like the delivery or the one working in maquilas or the musician and a large part of the artistic community live in the nearby of the economy, in the periphery. So The Value (a shadow cast by collective meaning) is in part a audivisual enssay about modern work. :) Audio with suno ai
Audio explanation
Listen to Canek Zapata discuss this work.
Editor, curator, and internet artist. He studied Classical Literature at UNAM. His work focuses on exploring automated writing models, internet visual languages, and net art. He completed the 2016 Photography Production Seminar at the Centro de la Imagen and received the Mexican Foundation for Literature grant (2015-16). His work has been exhibited at Centro de la Imagen, Progreso Gallery, El Cuartelito, MUAC, the XIII FEMSA Biennial, Museo Carrillo Gil, the Visual Art Center at the University of Texas in Austin, UNAM’s El Aleph Festival, and Neort++ Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. His work is anthologized in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 4. He has curated exhibitions at Galería Libertad, Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Oaxaca Book Fair, The Wrong Biennale 2019-20, and Casa Equis.
He is an editor and programmer at the electronic literature publisher https://brokenenglish.lol/. An expert in digital culture, automatic writing, internet art, glitch art, and memes, he has published articles in PaperMag, Excelsior, Horizontal, Revista 404.Tierra Adentro, and Revista de la Universidad.