DANZA DE PIEDRAS Y CAMINOS

David Ricardo Romero Alvis

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – LED SHOW
Electronic Language International Festival

Danza de piedras y caminos – Colombia

The work emerges from walking. It is built from 3D scans of enchanted stones found along paths, rivers, and Indigenous trails that were paved during the colonial period—ancestral and sacred routes within what is now Colombian territory.

BIO

David Ricardo is a 26-year-old Colombian artist interested in the dialogue between “natural” forms and virtual and electronic spaces. Through a vital materialist approach, he affirms the complexity of forms as a starting point for other possibilities of life and perception.

The Chiromancer
El quiromante es una IA * de lectura manual que escribe predicciones sobre la vida de una persona. Esta máquina actualiza la práctica ancestral de la lectura de la palma de la mano, hibridando datos biométricos con una infusión cibernética de conocimiento basado en la nube. Como muchos de los otros dispositivos que usamos hoy en día, recopila, almacena y extrapola datos de los usuarios. The Chiromancer explora cómo la confianza, las esperanzas y los deseos se depositan en máquinas aparentemente frías.

Initiation
Initiation is an open-end ceremony initiating the audience to the cult of infinity. The gigantic human-machine-interface is driven by the officiants controlling ancestral tools. As time seems to suspend itself, the crowd emerges into an ever hypnotizing state of oscillation. In this place the swing of the pendulum acts as the ever stimulating vector to guide the audience onto higher grounds.

Rectifying the Course
Los botes constituyen el eje fundamental de su trayectoria, de su itinerario, de su experiencia como hombre-artista, como hombre-remo, como hombre-balsa que navega: “Un bote es un invento ancestral. Yo no creo que haya otro medio de transporte que diga tanto sobre la gente”.

Ancestral Dream