Rodrigo Azaola

Rodrigo Azaola https://nothingenduresbutchange.net Rodrigo Azaola Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:11:49 +0000 https://nothingenduresbutchange.net en flat http://nothingenduresbutchange.net/flat Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:11:49 +0000 Rodrigo Azaola 460355 Rodrigo Azaola Work           About          News                                               flat festival propuesta >>> descarga Rodrigo Azaola Work           About          News                ... what http://nothingenduresbutchange.net/what Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:30:36 +0000 Rodrigo Azaola 460335 Rodrigo Azaola Work           About          News What if the wind that the Seeker measures is merely the echo of a silence he has yet to hear? 2026 AI system What if the wind… is a generative artificial intelligence conversational system that blurs the lines between monetary authority and philosophical imagination. The system consists of two AI agents trained on conceptually opposed corpora to generate a poetic, unsettling, and oracular endless dialogue. In this exchange, one agent poses questions shaped by the 12th-century mystical poem “The Conference of the Birds”, while the other responds informed by the speeches database of the Bank for International Settlements, also known as the “bank of central banks”. While the financialization of our daily life proposes how to get ahead, it also rearranges the expansive movements of the soul through chrono-normatives deployed across cultures and geographies. Faith and trust serve as binding mechanisms that offer unsurmountable indebtedness —whether to gods or institutions— in exchange for future prosperity. The synchronization of these two corpora reflects on the horizontality of systems of belief, in which reason must give way to faith and devotion. As a symbolic place of confluence, What if the wind… demands a critical reflection —not devoid of humor—on the esoteric narratives of financial power and its quasi-sacred character. Rodrigo Azaola Work           About          News What if the wind that the Seeker measures is merely the... pic1 http://nothingenduresbutchange.net/pic1 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:51:38 +0000 Rodrigo Azaola 460137 Rodrigo Azaola Work           About          News <img width="3052" height="1720" width_o="3052" height_o="1720" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/cadb234bc13b498fab63e1157f31323498719ceef8a01553d650a2bfb773d1a8/MoT_low-res.jpg" data-mid="1444120" border="0" /> Screenshot of Merchants of Time. Developed by Rodrigo Azaola, 2025. Rodrigo Azaola Work           About          News Screenshot of Merchants of Time. Developed by Rodrigo... mt http://nothingenduresbutchange.net/mt Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:00:14 +0000 Rodrigo Azaola 459958 Merchants of time Technical rider: LAPTOP LCD screen / projector Speakers Game controller Poster:<img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b2f6c4533c18a2bdb586d2c4a14c896c366831914a61fd40aca9fb6e85581fd6/poster-MoT.jpg" data-mid="1441918" border="0" /> Stills:  <img width="3198" height="1564" width_o="3198" height_o="1564" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9fad2fedecdadf5fc824a556ed97bf4b3169159aa2e59f2983dd15b48482e67e/still-1.png" data-mid="1441915" border="0" /><img width="2076" height="1280" width_o="2076" height_o="1280" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/7435f118f8b03da890f90e74b29d37b4fb10777f43de4850738febd38160b5a3/still-2.jpg" data-mid="1441916" border="0" /><img width="1862" height="998" width_o="1862" height_o="998" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/2c030f7d24123b1b55911ddf83b190713cfdfb60b312b6c5d36cec9ce5fa6b61/view-game---Copy.jpg" data-mid="1441917" border="0" /> Merchants of time Technical rider: LAPTOP LCD screen / projector Speakers Game controller Poster: Stills:  MMT http://nothingenduresbutchange.net/MMT Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:57:48 +0000 Rodrigo Azaola 459326 Rodrigo Azaola Work           About          News Mystical Monetary Theory 2026 - upcoming Mystical Monetary Theory (MMT) is a conversational system powered by generative AI that seeks to blur the lines between monetary authority and philosophical imagination. This system self-generatively produce a poetic, unsettling, and oracular discourse based on two corpus. The first corpus, corresponding to the AI agent that questions, is the poem The Conference of the Birds by Persian mystic Farid ud-Din Attar, written in the 12th century. In this work,  a group of birds traverses seven valleys representing the stages of the mystical path. The poem concludes with the revelation that the seeker—the human, represented by the birds—and the sought—the divine— are one. The second corpus, corresponding to the AI agent that formulates the responses, speeches database of the Bank for International Settlements. This entity, popularly known as the "bank of banks" and headquartered in Switzerland, has shaped contemporary global finance since World War II through reports, regulatory standards, and academic research. Its database contains around twenty thousand speeches delivered by hundreds of officials from over a hundred central banks from 1976 to the present. This installation interrogates contemporary finance as acts of faith. Ultimately, MMT represents a symbolic space of confluence (questionable due to its reliance on AI systems) that demands a critical reflection, not devoid of humor, on current narratives of financial power and their quasi-sacred character. Rodrigo Azaola Work           About          News Mystical Monetary Theory 2026 - upcoming Mystical... p http://nothingenduresbutchange.net/p Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:14:20 +0000 Rodrigo Azaola 458897 Rodrigo Azaola Work           About          News download portfolio  download CV <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ed660e4bfbfa369da9bdc52af76e7b017f8f65093b611ead5b9394032383b992/IMAGEN-4.jpg" data-mid="1429430" border="0" data-scale="65"/> Rodrigo Azaola Work           About          News download portfolio  download CV time http://nothingenduresbutchange.net/time Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:17:25 +0000 Rodrigo Azaola 458670 Rodrigo Azaola Work           About          News                                                                                       Impunity Landscapes V, Merchants of time 20253D playable game, Single-channel HD video with sound.  Merchants of time is a 3D interactive game that explores the disproportionate power held by central banks and the vulnerability of individuals to their disciplinary technosophy. The environment is set against the backdrop of the 2019 Lebanese financial crisis, triggered by systemic corruption, embezzlement, and outright theft orchestrated by the highest ranks of Lebanon’s central bank in coordination with a loosely regulated banking sector. Sonic and visual cues —such as Lebanese bank logos, news footage, sound bites from banks mission and vision statements, and protests soundscapes— are dispersed throughout the cave, interwoven with admonitions from the Merchants of Time, fictional entities that guard its depths. Merchants of time places the player alone in a vast, unmapped cave system existing outside any specific place or time. Empty, hostile and devoid of emotions, the environment is marked by traces of both past and future ruins. Player mechanics are intentionally limited to endless roaming, observation, and enduring an unknown path with no clear beginning or end — mirroring the minimal agency and understanding that citizens have over how central bank policies shape our present and future lives. This work, the last of the Impunity Landscapes series, is both an archive and a sacrificial altar confronting the entanglement —anchored in fragile systems of trust and collapse— between modern finances and faith. This work was first developed during an art residency at Takeover, Beirut. Exhibited at LA18 x BYOB, Berlin New Media Week, September 2026. <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/876c8b6ee4933a21a1a9a176cdf5a7e220b93236484d96fd0b3e6c41742183d2/end-byob-33.jpg" data-mid="1445658" border="0" /> Exhibition view. LA18 x BYOB, Berlin New Media Week. 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Across a lifeless panorama, we follow the diplomat's remembrances—from the first climate conferences to the emergence of green financial instruments (green bonds, carbon credits, green ETFs, and so forth), and finally to the complete takeover of climate change negotiations by big capital. In this narrative, the horizon of a planetary ecological future becomes a tradable asset, while state sovereignty is weakened through de‑risking. These memories unfold alongside past climate‑conference logos and video-game–like sounds that evoke a playful yet futile course of action. Circular narratives and a refusal to act amount to nothing but empty promises that certainly outweigh Earth's natural reserves. <img width="3199" height="1800" width_o="3199" height_o="1800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1c4dda5176b12ea5fc11fa4e6da91b7649cad153857a51fd223657e9e1e15cf7/Raise-your-arms___3.png" data-mid="1433120" border="0" /><img width="3199" height="1798" width_o="3199" height_o="1798" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ef465fc150c84852246f31185f5cf142214af93f5b7653381e6c7de9a00041a4/Raise-your-arms___1.png" data-mid="1433121" border="0" /> Rodrigo Azaola Work           About          News Raise your arms 2026 Single channel interactive video...