Smile! You are out of Camera / Online Programme
Smile! You are out of Camera uses a computer vision system, programmed for object identification, to analyze a live video feed coming from a camera on the streets of Getxo. This neural network constantly processes the feed and hides moving objects under a white square so that any people, vehicles or animals that are moving in front of the webcam at that moment will automatically disappear.
The proliferation of security cameras has generated a constant, immense register that needs to be analyzed, identified and classified, but due to the enormous volume these tasks are impossible for humans and have been delegated to machines; automatic systems find meaning in the images, identifying individuals on the street, in shopping centres or in airports. In a hypervisual world, digital invisibility has become a privilege that few people have, forcing institutions like the European Union to recognize the right to be forgotten on the Internet. The Estampa group aims to subvert the use of control and surveillance tools of governments and large technological corporations, in order to allow the free movement of citizens.
** Smile! Your are out of Camera
Shared Screen / Popular Participation
Skype, Zoom, Facetime, Whatsapp… we have all used these tools to communicate and “see” each other during the alarm state. Getxophoto intends to make these experiences visible through an intervention in a central building of town during the Festival. For that reason, it invited citizens to send portraits (selfies, screenshots or photos) of their video calls of the moments they connect to have a conversation or digital meeting. An image that jumps from the digital to the physical and exhibition, as well as from the private sphere to the public sphere.
The Online Public Space
Algorithms, radio frequencies, data, surveillance or the cloud. Technology and digital are bursting into contemporary art. This year the Festival proposes a reflection on the role of technology and internet in the construction of public space. We will have a conversation about all this, and more, with Victoria Ascaso, Estampa, Hiru Kolektiboa, Blanca Ortiga, Mario Santamaría and Jon Uriarte.
Drive-in Cinema
Beds, our ephemeral cinema hall in which beds replaced the usual seats, could not take place in that edition. Circumstances prevailed, and therefore, together with our friends from Autocine Getxo, we proposed another way of watching that film, changing both position and space: 120 Beats per Minute, by Robin Campillo, an urgent film overflowing with life.
Public Protest Poster / Online Programme
The Public Protest Poster project by Navarrese designer Raúl Goñi is a design tool for protest, a proposal from urban activism and open and critical design. Its objective is to give a voice to all the people who have something to transmit through posters and to generate spaces for free expression in cities, towns, neighborhoods and streets through the use of disused walls. Based on practical action, it mixes educational processes with the creation of posters to produce knowledge and carry out research that promotes social change. He also reflects on the transformation of the role of the formalist designer to one linked to social innovation, to strategy.
During the lockdown, Public Protest Poster has reached an unforeseen dimension and acquired its maximum expression: many people have used the tool, Raúl has organized screenings from his home in Barcelona and a network of projectors has been promoted so that the posters that are being designed find their place on the walls of cities around the world.
Facial Instagram Filters / Online Programme
In the most participative and digital edition of Getxophoto, we want to host this visual phenomenon that predominates in our social networks: the facial filters for Instagram Stories. That’s why we have asked to the users: which filter do you use to go back to the streets?
The proposals received remained available in the highlighted stories of our Instagram profile during the month of September. Also, the jury made up of Jon Uriarte (curator of Getxophoto), Guillermo Royo (Noiz Agenda), Paula Gómez (Getxophoto) and Salvatore Vitale (Yet Magazine), chose the winning filter, which received a 400,00€ prize.
This project was carried out in collaboration with Noiz Agenda Kulturala and Yet Magazine.
Radio Ambulante / Online Programme
It is a narrative podcast distributed by the National Public Radio (NPR), in the United States, which tells stories from Latin America with the aesthetics of the written press chronicle. We invite you to enjoy some selected episodes that address, from different perspectives, the idea of public space, both physical and online. In the current world, dominated by the visual immediacy, we suggest you to get immersed in these narrations.
Playlist by Borja Crespo & Aran Calleja
Aran Calleja and Borja Crespo joined the fourteenth edition of with the most street-based soundtrack. An exaltation to the public space through our ears, with music that will not get out of your head. Lyrics that are slogans, songs that are hymns. Keep track of this session, press play, hit the road and enjoy!
Aran Calleja
Born in Bilbao in 1977, Aranzazu Calleja has a degree in Fine Arts and is also a violinist. She expanded her musical training at the Taller de Músics and at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. She was subsequently awarded with a scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. He began to compose music for the first short films directed by Borja Cobeaga, with whom she has collaborated on his four full-length films: Pagafantas, No Controles, Negociador and Fe de Etarras. She is a regular collaborator of the directors Haritz and Javier Rebollo. Her latest works include Psychonauts, The forgotten children by Alberto Vázquez and Pedro Rivero (Goya 2017 for the best animated film), Taxi to Gibraltar by Alejo Flah and El Hoyo by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia.
Borja Crespo
Born in Bilbao in 1971, Borja Crespo is a director, film producer, writer, illustrator and cartoonist. He has collaborated weekly on El Correo and other newspapers as a specialized journalist for more than two decades. He has directed music videos, commercials, short films and television programs. In 2019 he wrote and directed the opening gala of the San Sebastian International Film Festival. He has also worked as an advisor and event coordinator in cinema and comics, as a cultural manager (GRAF, Comic Barcelona, Tracking Bilbao, Getxo Comic Fair…). He teaches film and comic classes at university courses and events. He is also a founding member of the production company Arsénico P.C. and Sayaka Productions with Nacho Vigalondo, Koldo Serra, Borja Cobeaga and Nahikari Ipiña. Currently he hosts the radio program La Hora Caníbal for Bi FM, among other tasks.
