A story never told from below

Spanish artist Regina de Miguel’s project is based on one of the most unusual and radical cases of communication technology in recent history: the Cybersyn or Synco Project. Led by the visionary cybernetic theorist Stafford Beer, this project, which was conducted in Chile between 1971 and 1973 during the presidency of Salvador Allende, was frustrated by the coup d’etat led by Augusto Pinochet.

 Even the most radical utopias always reveal the systematic failures of the time of their conception. This audio visual project addresses this issue in an attempt to disclose what lies behind the widespread positivist uses of technologies by showing the conditions that made them possible and then brought them to an end. Just like a timeless narrative device, it eliminates the distance between humanity and technology as it explores the fractures thus produced.