Voluspa Jarpa @ CODE 2026
Counter-Cartographies of Resistance
From September 9 to 13, 2026, Linz will once again become a hotspot for the international media art scene. Exhibitions, performances, concerts and conferences will be held at festival locations throughout the city. If you are at Ars Electronica, you can visit Counter-Cartographies of Resistance, at Francisco Carolinum, Level 0 // OK QUARTER.
The installation subverts traditional colonial cartography, transforming it into a tool that highlights the knowledge systems of Andean and mestizo America, proposing a healing map that seeks to mend the rift between humanity and the Earth. The audience will experience an immersive textile installation that uses video mapping to convey a message of healing from the Mapuche machi Millaray Melinao in her Mapuzungún language, conceptually integrating the quipu recording system and the ancestral worldview through tactile, visual and auditory sensations that convey the notion of territory as an interconnected body. It sits at the crossroads of contemporary art, Andean data engineering and contemporary technologies. It is grounded in the current demand for the inclusion of non-Eurocentric knowledge paradigms and for reparations in the face of historical violence, while honoring the ancestors.
Credits
Millaray Melinao, Mapuche machi from the Rulo Community (Nueva Imperial, Araucanía Region, Chile) | Technical Drawings, Installation Solutions and General Production: Edmundo Browne, architect, project director (Madrid) | Audiovisual Design and Technical Direction of the video mapping: Luis Barrera, Pixelmaker Inc. (Miami) | Video Recording and Editing of Millaray Melinao: Violeta Molyneux | Sound Design for the video mapping: Valentina Pardo (Príncipe Mapuche) | Assitants: Sofía Ortega / Kim Reidenbach / Javiera Curipan / Belén Osses | This work was produced with the support of the Office of Arts and Culture, Office of the Vice President for Research, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. It is one of the winners of the S+T+ARTS Buen-TEK Grand Prizes. | The presentation of Counter-Cartographies of Resistance: Innovation and Ancestral Memory at the Ars Electronica Festival 2026 has been organized in collaboration with IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] in Utrecht, the Netherlands. |
The participation is the result of a collaboration between Ars Electronica and the Ministerío de Relaciones Exteriores | Gobierno de Chile.