Indigenous Sentience: Fernando Palma’s Electronic Divinities

Symposium:

• ISEA2020: 26th International Symposium on Electronic Art
• More presentations from ISEA2020:  

• The Ecosphic World: Expanded Encounters

• Indigenous Sentience: Fernando Palma’s Electronic Divinities

• Reynaldo Thompson
• Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay

• The questions on sentience we wish to explore in this paper have reference to the issues raised in the resume for the conference. We may restate these questions here in order to drive the discussion on how Fernando Palma Rodriguez, an indigenously inspired artist fom the eco-reserve of Milpa Alta, close to the historic southern districts of Mexico City, simulates sentient machines with actuator technologies. Rarely has aristic introversion been utilized in the production of such electronic art – which could be described more precisely as arduino based intelligent puppets that are fully indigenous in their congifuration.

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