Neópolis is the section of the Festival de Málaga in which science, technology and avant-garde art coexist. We are living through a truly unique moment, immersed in a technological revolution that is changing human behaviour. This section seeks to stimulate reflection based on interventions and immersive experiences that take viewers into a territory built according to the variables of the real and the not real, a territory that is based on the mixture of two worlds in conflict: the world known to date, a world understood from the variables of the solid and a liquid world defined by characteristics that come from the fourth industrial revolution.
 
This section seeks to promote dialogues between creators, scientists and technological experts to create ephemeral works that move us and allow us to generate new spaces focused on collective reflection.
 
 Audiovisual language serves as a thermometer to measure social changes which, in our time, are particularly accelerated, with not even time to be assimilated or thought about. Neópolis places the sustainability of the human being at the centre of its discourse and reflects on what it means to be human in this technologised present. From this open dialogue from the scientific and technological to the philosophical and the world of ideas, we want to challenge the inhabitants of our Neópolis to learn about the influence of science and technology in our lives. A reflection that allows us to decide what our attitude is towards this new contemporary environment that has arisen from the digital transformation.
 
Neópolis #3
 
The areas of knowledge on which we have generated our Neópolis #3 are:
 
Narratives about truth and AI
The machine/human relationship
Digital inheritance
 
 
Area of knowledge: Artificial Intelligence | Sub-area: Narratives about truth and AI
Neópolis #3.1 | 'ECO: La verdad de la IA'
Audiovisual installation by Patricia Conor, Violeta Sarabia and Paula Novo.
MIMMA (Interactive Museum of Music Malaga)
Conde de las Navas Palace (Calle Beatas, 15)
19-21 March, 6-7.30 pm.
Free entry until full capacity is reached
 
Short description of 'ECO: La verdad de la IA'
 
Two spaces. Two realities. The known reality and the reality imposed by the use of AI. We are immersed in a new co-evolutionary paradigm in which humanity and technological beings have to coexist in a way that preserves the conditions of the human. AI must be used responsibly and in a way that benefits society as a whole.
 
One of these responsibilities concerns the meaning of truth in our society. A lie must never be true. No truth should have the light weight of a lie. The generation of narratives in which every person needs to have a place – every identity generates a narrative – is damaging the meaning of truth at the micro level, but also at the macro level. Lying is free, and there are rulers who use AI to generate a web of narratives and lies on which to build their governments and thus damage Western democracies.
 
With this audiovisual installation we invite spectators to an immersive experience in which they will interact with two spaces where they will be able to reflect on what is true. And what is not.
 
Keywords: truth - lie - human - capitalism - money - gender - violence - language - democracy - journalism - education - intelligence - feminism - capitalism - thinking
 
 
Area of knowledge: Relationship Machine Human Being | Sub-area: Digital ethics
Neópolis #3.2 'Korifeo 2.1.'
Audiovisual and sound installation by LCA. Involving: Carlos Álvarez
Project SOS-LCAmálaga | Promálaga Casa de Socorro
19-21 March, 6-7.30 pm.
Plaza de la Trinidad, 12
Free entry until full capacity is reached
 
Brief description of 'Korifeo 2.1.'
 
In this paradigm shift in which we find ourselves, marked by the characteristics of the fourth industrial revolution, it is essential to understand how a machine works in order to be able to deal with it. So it is both about how we use technology and how this technology is programmed and for what purposes. Only in this way will we be able to glimpse the ethical problems before us and find solutions to them.
 
The digital revolution is generating an uneven feeling in society due to the speed at which it is bursting into our lives and the intensity of the changes it is generating. The audiovisual and sound installation 'Korifeo 2.1.' proposes a vertical reality, the machine, and another horizontal reality that represents the weight of the human, the voice of humanity.
 
Do we really know how the use of today's technology affects our fundamental rights? How is it affecting the way we relate and bond? To the use of language? If we lose our ability to listen, we lose our ability to understand each other and thus become individuals isolated from each other in the service of technological capitalism.
 
In Greco-Latin theatre, the chorus represents the voice that sets the stage and artistic discourse to be followed. The head end.  The baritone Carlos Álvarez represents our chorifeo (chorus leader). His voice will be the voice of the discourse of the human. Of that reality that endures and resists the advance of the machine in order to propose new ways of relating to each other and to the machine itself to make it more human, precisely.
 
 
Area of knowledge: Digital inheritance | Sub-area: Linking memory, pain and the body.
Neópolis #3.2 | 'El cuerpo (Des)Fragmentado'
Performance by Ximena Carnevale. Involving: Ana Castro.
Ateneo de Málaga (C/ Compañía, 1)
20-21 March, 6-7.30 pm.
Free entry until full capacity is reached
 
Brief description of 'El cuerpo (Des)Fragmentado'.
 
What happens to the liquid memories of people who are gone. That liquid memory that navigates through the cloud, between data and figures that only perpetuate a binary culture. Who decides on the status of people who are no longer around to use their language and thought. Their image, their body, their lives. These people stay on social networks, on apps, on website posts. On the websites of the tax office, traffic authorities, local councils. What to do with all these digital legacies and what effect they have on our lives. In our memory and in our body.
 
 From the reading of a poem from Ana Castro's La cierva implacable, Ximena Carnevale offers a performance that moves between ritual – the same movement is always performed – and improvisation. Carnevale performs a ceremony with her body that inaugurates, that begins, with the reading of a poem by Ana Castro that is repeated, as in a choreographic figure of eight. Spectators passing through this physical space that houses an ephemeral action will be able to read part of the selected poems, or the poems in their entirety, and Carnevale will think about the effect of these poems on pain by recreating pain through her body.
 
The action starts with a live reading by Ana Castro, which will then be taken up by the spectators who pass through the space. These poems remain in the air, in a loop, recorded and thrown into the air like that liquid memory that does not disappear.