This website exhibits works by art students from
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ), Mexico
& Leipzig Art Academy (HGB), Germany.
Oracle: I'd ask you to sit down, but you're not going to anyway. And don't worry about the vase.
Neo: What vase? [Neo knocks over a vase with his elbow. It falls down and breaks.]
Oracle: That vase.
Neo: I'm sorry.
Oracle: I said, don't worry about it. I'll get one of my kids to fix it.
Neo: How did you know?
Oracle: Ohhh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?...
This quote from a film scene in Matrix (1999) demonstrate a "metaphysial contagion"
- how a spoken or written word can shape actions and objects in our surroundings.
The idea of metaphysial contagion is, as in quantum physics, that intra-action can
influence a materialisation. By bringing HGB and UACJ art students together in online
communication exchanges, they entangled in conversations and influenced
each other's art making for the two cities Juárez and Leipzig.
Thanks to Niklas Kleemann for making and Uwe Klaus for hosting this website.
The exchange was organized by Gabriela Durán-Barraza, professor of visual arts at the Universidad Autónoma
de
Ciudad Juárez
and by Stine Marie Jacobsen, professor of media art at Leipzig Art Academy, 2024.