Conceptual artist exploring our use of technology and its ethical and aesthetic implications.
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[EN] Filipe Vilas-Boas was born in Portugal in 1981. He is a self-taught conceptual artist currently living and working in Paris. Without being a naive tech utopist or a reluctant technophobe, he explores our use of technology and its ethical and aesthetic implications. His installations, performances and conceptual artworks question the global digitalization of our societies, mostly by merging our physical (IRL) and digital (URL) worlds.
His works were highlighted in the Portuguese Emerging Art Books, 2018 & 2019 Edition and have been shown internationally notably at Nuit Blanche Paris, the UNESCO, Biennale Siana, Le Cube, The French Ministry of Culture, Biennale Némo - Le 104 (FR), Athens Digital Art Festival, Monitor - Heraklion Contemporary Arts Festival (GR), Zaratan, MAAT Museum (PT) and at the Tate Modern (UK).
The last decade has seen an incredible growth in the production and distribution of images. The availability of unexpensive production means made amateur creativity increase exponentially, while the Internet provided a new platform of distribution for this kind of production, usually kept as private so far. In the meantime, videogames, virtual worlds and systems such as Google Street View provided this mass of prosumers with whole worlds that can be built, implemented through their own creative practice, documented and used as tools for the development of new images and new narratives. What is the impact of this process on art practice and on the artist – in the past, the only blessed depositary of the creative gesture? Which kind of dialogue is going on between amateur practices and codified languages?
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