By Lizabel Mónica
Visual Artist Nestor Siré has set up an art gallery inside today's most popular Cuban media. El Paquete is a 1 Terabyte size changing database of digital content, mostly pirated, and transferred informally through USB external hard drives. El Paquete is nothing like television, any form of radio, or the Internet. It is a huge media phenomenon run through hand-to-hand distribution and outside of government control. There, Siré has managed to insert an Art Gallery.
WHO IS NESTOR SIRÉ?
Nestor Sire is a 28 years old Havana-based artist who is concerned with technological mediation as a creative process. His grandfather redistributed Corin Tellado novels, pirated films in Betacam videocassettes, and most recently, traded a …show more content…
That is the case of Debugging Nauta and Becoming a Fair Seller. Debugging Nauta, by new media young artist Yonlay Cabrera, is the compilation of errors in the Cuban network system Nauta, used to connect to the Internet. The recollection of system errors is a kind of information that only circulates among the State official network administrators. But Debugging Nauta (to debug is to find and remove system errors in a computer system) socializes this sensitive information through a majority media like El Paquete. By doing so, every person in El Paquete's audience become aware of Nauta's system errors and has the chance to think of it as a programmer texter. Amid the vast audience of El Paquete's consumers, we can assure there is more than one programmer --and probably even those that originally designed Nauta for the Cuban State. Thus, the socialization intended goes beyond the unveiling of a commonly hidden transcript; it subtly claims for the collective capacity and responsibility to improve the only way that Cubans have to connect to the …show more content…
"I am sure that we as artists are far away from those who will do the decision making about who gets a slice of the cake, I mean if capitalism in its fullness finally arrives..." His eyes are open wide as he continues. "By then, the more strongest part of this society will be the people, people like those that created El Paquete." I nod my head while closing the computer. We have now finished the interview, and it is close to 6:00 pm. I have some neighbors over to exchange cell phone apps, so we move from the living room to the terrace. "And you know, it is not about one individual or a group; it is about our social dynamics," he adds, sitting in one of the patio furniture rebar
Visual Artist Nestor Siré has set up an art gallery inside today's most popular Cuban media. El Paquete is a 1 Terabyte size changing database of digital content, mostly pirated, and transferred informally through USB external hard drives. El Paquete is nothing like television, any form of radio, or the Internet. It is a huge media phenomenon run through hand-to-hand distribution and outside of government control. There, Siré has managed to insert an Art Gallery.
WHO IS NESTOR SIRÉ?
Nestor Sire is a 28 years old Havana-based artist who is concerned with technological mediation as a creative process. His grandfather redistributed Corin Tellado novels, pirated films in Betacam videocassettes, and most recently, traded a …show more content…
That is the case of Debugging Nauta and Becoming a Fair Seller. Debugging Nauta, by new media young artist Yonlay Cabrera, is the compilation of errors in the Cuban network system Nauta, used to connect to the Internet. The recollection of system errors is a kind of information that only circulates among the State official network administrators. But Debugging Nauta (to debug is to find and remove system errors in a computer system) socializes this sensitive information through a majority media like El Paquete. By doing so, every person in El Paquete's audience become aware of Nauta's system errors and has the chance to think of it as a programmer texter. Amid the vast audience of El Paquete's consumers, we can assure there is more than one programmer --and probably even those that originally designed Nauta for the Cuban State. Thus, the socialization intended goes beyond the unveiling of a commonly hidden transcript; it subtly claims for the collective capacity and responsibility to improve the only way that Cubans have to connect to the …show more content…
"I am sure that we as artists are far away from those who will do the decision making about who gets a slice of the cake, I mean if capitalism in its fullness finally arrives..." His eyes are open wide as he continues. "By then, the more strongest part of this society will be the people, people like those that created El Paquete." I nod my head while closing the computer. We have now finished the interview, and it is close to 6:00 pm. I have some neighbors over to exchange cell phone apps, so we move from the living room to the terrace. "And you know, it is not about one individual or a group; it is about our social dynamics," he adds, sitting in one of the patio furniture rebar