In Arche-Scriptures, artist Alberto Harres uses locally sourced clay to materially reconfigure particular locations.
The site-specific installation presents a fictional excavation site where an automated machine deciphers intricate markings on an anachronistic digital storage medium. The inscribed ceramic tablet acts as a speculative gateway into the temporal branching of the site, actualised through machine interpretation. The perpetual acts of decoding activate the ancestro-futuristic artefact as a time-travelling and reality-producing protocol for unearthing new yet inexistent grounds.
Alberto Harres is a Brazilian artist and technologist based in Bremen, Germany, working at the various intersections of art and technology, with language as a central focus. Recent projects explore archives as an artistic practice, considering their poetic and political dimensions.
With a background in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a Master’s in Digital Media from the University of the Arts Bremen, his works have been shown at Ars Electronica (Linz), the British Academy Summer Showcase (London) and the Museum of Modern Art (Salvador), among others. For his work, he has received the CyberArts Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica (2019), the Hochschulpreis Digitale Medien 1st Prize (2022), and the Media Futures grant (2022).
https://www.albertoharres.com/
Free entry.
17. 5.–27. 6. 2025
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Author: Alberto Harres
Curatorial support and text: Maja Burja
The artwork was developed for the 25th edition of the International Festival of Contemporary Art
Practices Pixxelpoint (2024) with the support of Hochschüle für Künste Bremen, Aksioma –
Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana and Carinarnica (DHG).
Exhibition production: Kino Šiška and Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory, supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.
The exhibition is part of the Adela – International Festival of Generative Arts. The artwork was selected through a public open call in the frame of the Parameter – Generative Arts Fair (2025).
Expert committee: Davide Bevilacqua, Maja Burja, Luka Frelih, Katja Pahor, Veerle Pennock
