Global Village (Aldea global)

Miguel Chevalier is considered a pioneer of digital art and has experimented with computer-generated images since 1978. His visual compositions and immersive environments explore the relationship between virtual and physical worlds, creating parallels between the geometric grids of architectural structures, city plans, and computers and digital technologies. Chevalier describes himself as continuing an avant-garde tradition that has long been influenced by scientific discoveries, notably in the work of French Impressionist painters Georges Seurat and Claude Monet. In Global Village, an operating system composed of multiple channels is juxtaposed with a purple veil or screen projection, conveying the multiplicity and connectivity that characterizes contemporary life. The image meditates on the ways in which a new experience of space and sense of belonging may be generated through global technology networks. The transparency and smoothness of PVC paper grants the image a three-dimensional quality, as if it were a space that one could walk into.

Text credit: Produced in collaboration with the University of Maryland Department of Art History & Archaeology and Patricia Ortega-Miranda