Una Rayuela y noventa revelaciones
2022-2025
Sergio Araht presents a videopoem that explores the intersection between literature, visual art, and technology. The artist selected seven pages from Julio Cortázar’s novel Rayuela (Hopscotch) and manually transformed them through the technique of blackout poetry. This process involved selectively obscuring words from the original text using colors, drawings, adhesive letters, and magazine clippings to unveil new meanings and poetic compositions. Subsequently, the intervened pages underwent a digital animation process, in which Araht combined graphics, the texts derived from the blackout poetry, and animated sequences. To complete the multisensory experience, the artist incorporated a musical composition inspired by the Argentine writer’s novel. A distinctive element of this videopoem is the use of artificial intelligence to generate additional texts and to emulate Julio Cortázar’s voice, bridging human creativity and machine-generated interpretation.
AI Context
The videopoem “A Hopscotch and Ninety Revelations”, highlights Sergio Araht’s experimentation with artificial intelligence as a collaborative tool, which acted as an assistant, adaptable to the needs of the creative process in charge of the artist, who maintained its direction, customizing the content and the application of technology, without sacrificing traditional artistic techniques.This approach demonstrates how artificial intelligence can complement and expand expression possibilities by offering new paths for creativity and stylistic exploration. This piece thus becomes an example of how artists can integrate emerging technologies without compromising their creative vision or classical methodologies.
Sergio Araht
Mexico
Bio
Sergio Araht (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico). Graphic designer and culture agent, graduate of the University of Guadalajara, who has also explored the art and visual poetry. He has presented solo and group exhibitions in various cities in Mexico, and in other cities around the world. Always from a perspective of social commitment and criticism, Araht is interested in human vulnerability, intrasubjective exploration, and experimentation as a creative driving force.