ISABEL PEREZ DEL PULGAR

( Spain – Espanha | France – França )

ISABEL PEREZ DEL PULGAR - Born in Granada (Spain) with residence in France since 2015. Degree in Geography and Stories with the specialty of Art by the University of Granada. Specialized monographic courses on Color Theory, Painting, Drawing and Techniques recorded in the School of Arts of Granada as well as courses on design and digital art. In the mid-2000s she adopted as a way of creating and expressing the video. Video as an experimentation vehicle, where the movement is combined, sound and pictorial vision. At the same time, performance is acquiring a greater presence as a means of work. The body like protagonist element and narrative driver. Architecture of stressed physicality of space - time. Her work as an artist in the fields of painting, photography, and especially his work in video art and short films has been the object of numerous exhibitions and international exhibitions; Rencontres Traverse Video (France), Videomedeja (Serbia), Fonland (Portugal), Art Miden festival (Greece), TEA (Canary Islands), Retransmisión (Mexico), Fivac (Cuba), Actions on the margin (Colombia), Femmes Videoart Festival (USA), IVAHN (Spain), MADATAC (Spain), Now & After (Russia), NEMAF (Korea), AVAF Festival (Ethiopia), Bunuel House (Mexico), WOW Art Film Video Festival (Germany), Vostell Malpartida Museum (Spain), visionXsound international experimental video (Austria), Women's space, La Neomudéjar (Madrid), Pink Dactiloscopy, Slaughterhouses (Madrid), VIDEOsPAIN (Spain). Collaborations with international artists and musical composers; Filmkonsert with Manssoor Hosseini (Sweden), Topology des neuf cercles with King Eisen (France). Various collaborations with the sound artist Javier Pinango..

2-1S  ENGRANAJE  - Isabel Perez del Pulgar   1ª SESSÃO | 1st SESSION

IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival - VII Edition 2025 (Funchal, Madeira - Portugal)

CREDITS:

Isabel Perez del Pulgar  Director / Creator

Isabel Perez del Pulgar  Visual Production

Meryll Ampe / Lynceus / Álbum: Elles - Women in Experimental Music  Music Production

SYNOPSIS:

The machine is a system of systems. And the system is an ordered module of elements. All of this make up a body, a machinery that functions to the extent that there is integration and coordination between all the ordered systems that make it up. For this coordination it is necessary the acceptance, by each element that builds the system, of its role within the gear that moves the machinery. Control, submission, acceptance. Each element is monitored and monitored.

Symptoms of a pan-optical machinery, which creates and sustains a power relationship without relevance in the element that exercises it. In this way the power remains faceless that identifies it, being blurred. Given the general appearance that each element, individualized, is conducted in full freedom of choice, under the surveillance of a great eye that sees and controls everything. The Black mirror.

Foucault points out: "Our society is that of surveillance; under the surface of images, we reach the bodies in depth (...) the meticulous and concrete training of the useful forces is pursued (...) we are in the panoptic machine, dominated by its efects of power, that seeks to prolong in ourselves, since we are one of its gears" (Foucault, Vigilance and Punishment: 1980).

      TÍTULO - TITLE            DURAÇÃO - TIME       ANO - YEAR               PAÍS - COUNTRY                    FORMATO - FORMAT

SUEÑO DE UN ANDROIDE               8'27''                  2023       (Spain – Espanha | France – França)                 16:9                                                                                                                  

1-2S SUEÑO DE UN ANDROIDE  - Isabel Perez del Pulgar  2ª SESSÃO | 2nd SESSION

IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival - VII Edition 2025 (Funchal, Madeira - Portugal)

CREDITS:

Isabel Perez del Pulgar Director / Creator

Isabel Perez del Pulgar Visual Production

Protoculture (2005) ACH_SO_JA Music Production

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SYNOPSIS:

There are problematic contemporary debates about the meaning of free will. The ability to make decisions and carry them out with a certain degree of control. The actual existence of this control to decide with autonomy and individuality is questioned, as this capacity depends on learning, on socialisation. We choose on desires and beliefs that already exist or have been imposed, conditioned by cognitive, situational, contextual, emotional, genetic, cultural factors. .... So do we really act according to our motives, desires and beliefs, are we spectators or arbiters of our own lives, or players doing what we can?

The differences between a human and an android is that the latter is a machine devoid and incapable of consciousness and free will. Created with specific functions for a specific activity. But isn't there an instrumentalisation and indoctrination of the human being so that he or she acts, produces and consumes within a determined socio-political gear? Wouldn't the awareness of one's own reality and freedom to decide be a simulation, and therefore, wouldn't an android be the simulation of a simulation? Are we not looking at the image of a human dreaming an android or an android dreaming a human?.