{"id":3149,"date":"2015-12-16T14:31:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T14:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2015-12-16T14:42:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T14:42:43","slug":"fir-conversations-quelic-berga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/2015\/fir-conversations-quelic-berga\/","title":{"rendered":"FIR  Conversations: Quelic Berga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/230470772&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quelic Berga, FIR Artist, in conversation with Tracey Warr at Centre d\u2019Art i Natura, Farrera, Catalan Pyrenees [33 mins]<\/p>\n<p>Frontiers in Retreat is a European 5 year art and ecology research project frontiersinretreat.org<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Ecology by itself is a mistake. There shouldn\u2019t be separation between technology, humans and nature. We are using nature as if it were meant for giants. I\u2019m against oversizing our impact on nature. I believe in nostalgia. Can we allow ourselves to love nature? Are we brave enough to look at it again with love &#8211; and by doing that we solve the problem.<br \/>\nI\u2019m using digital technology as a technique or tool but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s unnatural. Cities are organic and natural, made by a species of animal called humans. Why should beehives be natural but cities artificial? I\u2019m critical of those dichotomies. Cities, technology, urban spaces can be based on ecological and organic principles. We need to change the way we understand technology, to use it with organic and ecological intelligence.<br \/>\nA frontier is a membrane \u2013 something inbetween. Interfaces are the frontier between the inner process of a machine and the human, a communication bridge. Instead of being a contested border, a frontier can be a bridge, a way to get past dichotomies, to connect. I\u2019m looking to touch diverse audiences, to be accessible, to melt the frontiers. It\u2019s an Occidental mistake to try to make everything homogenous. Difference is valuable.<br \/>\nIn supermarkets it\u2019s hard to see what is polluting and what is not, what are the real production processes and the ecological impacts of food we buy and eat.<br \/>\nArt creates symbols and experiences for new imaginaries and reflections, and has subconscious impacts that stay longer than rational understandings.<br \/>\nFIR is a clumsy community of different approaches and experiences that I really value.\u2019<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quelic Berga, FIR Artist, in conversation with Tracey Warr at Centre d\u2019Art i Natura, Farrera, Catalan Pyrenees [33 mins] Frontiers in Retreat is a European 5 year art&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}