Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) August 2026.
"More than conversation at the interface, it is creative assemblages like these that explore and elaborate the particular dynamic capacities that digital media afford and the ways that through them humans and machines can perform interesting new effects (...) in uniquely particular ways." Lucy Suchman (2009). Human-machine reconfigurations: plans and situated actions.
Looking back on Rosa Barba exhibition in CAM, what stayed with me was not only the machinery or the choreography of film. It was the reminder that attention requires time. The works revealed themselves not through efficiency or speed, but through presence. By remaining. By allowing the unexpected to emerge. Much like a garden, a tapestry, or any living process, they offered something different each time they were encountered. Perhaps that was what attracted me back. Not the promise of seeing the same thing again, but the certainty that I wouldn't. The choreography would be different. My position would be different. The work would be different. And so would I.
"The secret lies in leaving everything else until tomorrow; in stopping at the most tantalizing moment in the story... or plot; in suspending our gaze and waiting; in managing the promise, and fuelling the desire to hear the rest" in «Xerazade, a coleção interminável do CAM». Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) August 2026.