Rodrigo Nava Ramirez (he/him) is a visual artist and computer programmer from Mexico City. In his work, Rodrigo seeks to practically and conceptually reframe digital technologies as tools for exploring spaces that are materially and temporarily restricted, creating alternative spaces for representation.
Rodrigo finds interest in how technology shapes our understanding of movement, borders, time and space and how by re-contextualising these concepts in the digital realm spaces for non-performance and refusal can be opened. The emancipation of technology as a decolonising act of resistance. His research is framed by Mexica Cosmologies, Mexico’s colonial past and the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. Among current core concepts are hybridity, worldbuilding, and psychogeography, drawing on notions of opacity, creolisation and the glitch, as found in the writings of Legacy Russell and Édouard Glissant.
Post-National Digital Pavilion
2024
The Unseen Guests' Post-National Digital Pavilion uses data and electric currents to reflect on the sea's contemplative and currently endangered ecologies. Utilising John Akomfrah's urgent discourse on climate justice and ongoing explorations of maritime narratives, water recurs as a motif, symbolising not only a repository of memories but also bearing witness to complex histories of colonial conquests, the transatlantic slave trade, and the continued flux of migrant currents within the vast expanse of the ocean.
Drawing inspiration from the proliferation of jellyfish, a phenomenon exacerbated by rising temperatures and deteriorating marine conditions. The site is governed by a virtual sea of data coming from all sort of sources—satellites, mathematical equations, physics laws, underground cables, user interactions— as means to highlight the direct consequence of human impact on the environment, the presence of the invisible and the remnants of what once was.
