N.A.S.A.L. returns to NADA Miami with a solo presentation of Luis Enrique Zela-Koort, Retconned.
Luis Enrique Zela-Koort (1994) is an artist and researcher observing technological responses to biases that would otherwise be cataloged as objective truth; analyzing the ideological instrumentalization of science, mythology, and identity.
In Retconned, Luis Enrique Zela-Koort recombines economic, biological and industrial flow charts of contemporary society in order to map the flows of modern desire there where it becomes flesh, and also machine. But in the process of depicting these flows, there is also a promise: to liberate desire itself, of intervening in its flows, of offering a different future (and present).
Zela-Koort’s use of artificial intelligence algorithms, which recombine and produce new cartographies from economic diagrams already circulating in magazines and then transferred to the canvas and frame of the piece, offers a place to think creatively about the idea of the “economic unconscious”: all those images that construct the way we see and think about economic, industrial, energy and governmental processes today (and which are already collected by infinite algorithms at work on the web).
