My kingdom is another

In a context in which all actions and creations in the West have been doped for years with digital steroids, whether we want to be aware of it or not - there is even “algorithmic archaeology” - we feel threatened and living a new version of the 1927 film “Metropolis”: we are instilled with a renewed fear of the Machine, which conveniently borders on our already abundant quota of fears.

Immersed in the midst of a debate about controlling the rapid advance of artificial intelligence, we are concerned that this “third industrial revolution” will destroy the “democratic” form of nation-state that we “enjoy.”

In response to the manifesto recently signed by more than a thousand technology companies worldwide to stop the advance of artificial intelligence, Santi Jiménez, like many artists, is making use of this tool.

Our artist, consciously problematizing his artistic activity - which is a constant in his long career - in a time of new challenges to the sacred authorship of the artist in the era of "technical reproducibility" - a term already coined by Benjamin in 1939 - presents us with a new mixed work, a "classical aura" combination of manual drawing with digital drawing and machine creation, drawing generated by artificial intelligence.