MEMORIES OF A MOUNTAIN

“What we call time is more than anything a repetition of events that, from our perspective, form cycles that, when repeated, make us think of durations. It is absolutely true that time varies according to the observer, and therefore the experience of time is an adjustment, association or modification of our neural patterns” Jacobo Grinberg

The memory housed in the mind is a series of images that are sustained, do not contain a specific form, vary from one to another, are deformed, distorted. We constantly create the past as if it were part of a present, but over time everything is deconstructed, blurred. Memory is a movie in real time and variable, when we are thrown there, we can spend hours and hours contemplating, it is a loop of impermanence. When I experiment with artificial intelligence images, I seem to find a relationship with how our mind manifests memories, the thoughts that are passing are transformed from one form to another, as in the interpolations of the neural networks that we train. Although AI is far from the neural complexity of our brain, this familiarity that occurs between the generated images and our mental images is still strange. For this project, almost daily and for approximately 6 months, photos were taken of the Bear Mountain, located on the outskirts of Bogotá at 3,200 meters above sea level and seen from inside the city. The sounds were collected directly in the páramo of the mountain and its surroundings, sacred Muisca territory. Through deep listening, natural sounds of mountain congas and other wind tones came to light. The material was trained with neural networks from free access notebooks such as VqGan and StyleGan. There is a constant tension between the digital world and the world that we call real, this tension becomes more poignant when talking about artificial intelligence, what interests me at this point is to question, glimpse or in a certain way open up the very nature of what real and the notion of certainty that is established in time, memory and matter